About Me
Davide Pollicino
Computer Science (BSE) at Edinburgh Napier University
SWE @Microsoft, mentor @Mentorcruise, Mentor and Consultant @Topmate.io , and Technical Writer @Medium
Hi There!
I am Davide, Software Engineer and mentor at heart.
I am currently working as Software Engineer @Microsoft, and I am mentor @Mentorcruise and @Topmate.io;
I also have experience in start-up environment as Web Developer and Product Manager, have release multiple web app and mobile applications:
Icoinqui.it
Beautygo.it
I have also been responsabile for the maintance of highly scalabe applicaiton like:
frontofclass.co.uk
lesentenze.it
Experience
Software Engineer @Microsoft
• Working on Teams native shell to expose services used by Teams Desktop Client for Windows 10 and 11.• Increased e2e testing coverage.
October 2022 - Present
Mentor and Technical Consultant @Topmate.io
• Helping professionals, students and companies to achieve more via mentorship sessions, and technical consultantion.View my profile
October 2022 - Present
Mentor @MentorCruise
• Helping both students and professionals in career kick-off, and interview preparation for both start-up and corporate environments
View my profile
July 2022 - Present
Software Engineer Manager @GetBuzz
• Leading a team of 6 Software Engineers for the development of the new messaging application, and internal tools adopted by Getbuzz.uk
• Increased by 78% backend coverage via automated tests
• Integrate API profiling monitoring tools to analyze response time and errors distribution producing a 99.7% crashfree backend-services.
• Created infrastructure for staging and production environment leading the implementation of virtual-zero-downtime deployment in production across multiple cloud regions.
October 2021 - Present
Software Engineer intern @Microsoft
💼 Implementation and testing automation of Push notification in Teams For Life (TFL), for windows 10 and 11.
🎓 Awards and Certifications: • AI Azure Fundamentals Certification: AI-900 • Azure Fundamentals Certification: AZ-900 • Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Certification: MS-900 • Accessibility in Action certifications.
July 2021 - October 2021
Lab Assistant @Edinburgh Napier University
• Teach to more than 175 students during their coding assignments and lab sessions.
• Increased by 94% online delivered learning support by integrating lab support within the university Slack.
January 2021 - April 2022
Software Engineer Manager & Web Developer @NDWebSolutions
💼 Responsibilities: In charge of planning and execution of the IT department, coordinating a team of 7 Software Engineers. Responsible for the quality assurance of every IT project delivered between Q3 2020 and Q3 2021.
📱🌐 Products Realized or maintained under my supervision
• frontofclass.co.uk
• icoinqui.it
• beautygo.it
• lesentenze.it
• presenteome.co.uk
July 2020 - July 2021
Software Enginner (virtual intern) @JPMorgan Chase & Co
💼 Responsibilities: • Debug webApp application used to view real-time stock prices. • Get to know the company mission, products, and technologies adopted at JPMorgan Chase & Co. 🎓 View attendance certification award.
June 2020 - August 2020
Software Engineer intern @Giuseppe Matranga
💼 Developed website for pizzeria, to increase sales during first wave of covid pandemic
🌐 https://omonimus1.github.io/aws-pizzeria-website/
March 2020 - May 2020