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Francesco Scuccimarri

Francesco Scuccimarri

Senior Software Engineer, backend specialist

I have been building backends since 2015, mostly in Java and Spring Boot, and I develop with coding agents every day: JetBrains Junie at work, Claude Code and Codex on my own projects. When a project needs a new technology, I learn it fast.

Now
Senior Software Engineer at Gruppo Maggioli since 2020, on the Evocity project: APIs and microservices, data pipelines on Google Cloud, a conversational agent in Python.
Path
BSc in Computer Science in Bari (2014, 110/110 cum laude), then Fincons (2014–2016) and Klopotek (2016–2020, lead from 2018).
Stack
Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Azure, Python, FastAPI, LangGraph
Contact
Bari, Italy, or remote; Italian and English. LinkedIn · GitHub

Beyond work

  • Open source 31 merged pull requests since 2020, in JHipster, Azure SDK, Langchain4j and more.
  • Flutter apps 4 apps on Google Play and the App Store; about 5,000 students a year use one of them.
  • Programming contests Google Hash Code, Code Jam and Advent of Code, from 2017 to 2022.
  • Bots and automation Telegram bots and Python scrapers; one has posted news about my town since 2020.
  • CFJ Manager The people and course management system of Casa Frate Jacopa, in use since 2019.
  • Home server About twenty self-hosted Docker services, since 2023.

Year by year

2026

Flutter apps

As an independent developer I design, build and publish apps on Google Play and the App Store.

  • Codici giuridici: Italian legal codes offline, updated daily from Normattiva by a Python pipeline.
  • Test Formazione Primaria: practice tests for the primary-teaching degree admission exam, with past papers from 31 universities. About 5,000 students use it every year.
  • Liturgia delle ore: daily prayer, offline, with text-to-speech.
  • Colors & Minds: a cognitive training game based on the Stroop effect.

2024

Evocity

Gruppo Maggiolisince October 2024

Technologies: Java 25, Spring Boot 4, Python, LangGraph, BigQuery, Airflow, Apache Beam, GKE

13 more

Spring Cloud Gateway, FastAPI, Liquibase, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Keycloak, Docker, Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI, JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers

Data engineering on Google Cloud (Airflow, Apache Beam on Dataflow, BigQuery), Spring Boot APIs and an AI agent in Python. The product is a smart city platform for municipalities.

  • Designed most of the data pipelines: Airflow, Apache Beam on Dataflow, incremental loads into BigQuery.
  • Ported to Python (FastAPI, LangGraph) the AI agent that answers natural-language questions on the data and took it to production, with RAG on pgvector and Langfuse evaluations.
  • Led the migration to Spring Boot 4 and Java 25, with OpenRewrite and JetBrains Junie.
  • Implemented multi-tenant authentication with Keycloak, JWT and Vault.
  • Adopted a code-first approach: the database schema comes from the JPA model and evolves with Liquibase.
More results
  • Built three JetBrains Junie agents for maintenance: they fix Renovate merge requests and pipeline errors on Composer and Dataflow, and one acts as a support bot on Slack.
  • Created the project knowledge base, a Markdown wiki maintained with an LLM, and the user guide.

2023

Home server

since 2023

Technologies: Docker, Immich, Home Assistant, Pi-hole, Tailscale, Python

7 more

Debian, Portainer, Syncthing, Rclone, Duplicati, NUT, bash

About twenty self-hosted Docker services, in daily use.

  • Containers: Docker and Portainer, with automatic updates.
  • Photos: Syncthing, rclone, Immich; Python cleanup script.
  • Network: internal DNS with Pi-hole, remote access only via VPN, encrypted disks.
  • Monitoring: scheduled checks, UPS management and automatic alerts.

2021

Open source

2020 – 2023

Contributions merged into the Java and Spring libraries I used at work, mostly with Azure. The main ones:

  • JHipster (2022–2023): new Elasticsearch Java client for Spring Boot 3, ArchUnit 1.0, a test for reactive apps, and the Elasticsearch docs for Spring Boot 3.
  • Seed4j, formerly JHipster Lite (2023): a Redis module.
  • Azure SDK for Java (2020–2021): chunked uploads above 4 MB in Storage File Share, a queue and topic name check in Service Bus, fixes to samples and docs.
  • Apache Tika Helm chart (2023): YAML that failed helm lint.
  • JPAStreamer (2021): a build that failed on annotated fields.
  • Java Design Patterns (2021): Lombok upgrade.

All pull requests 2020 – 2023

2020

Gruppo Maggioli

Senior Software Engineer, Barisince November 2020

Java and Spring Boot microservices in the cloud, first on Azure and then on Google Cloud. Two projects so far: Synbee and, since 2024, Evocity.

Synbee

Gruppo MaggioliNovember 2020 – October 2024

Technologies: Java 14 → 19, Spring Boot, JHipster, Elasticsearch, Azure Service Bus, Kubernetes, Spring WebFlux, Hazelcast

13 more

Spring AOP, JPA/Hibernate, Liquibase, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, Elastic Cloud, Docker, Helm, GitLab CI, JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers

Spring Boot microservices generated with JHipster, on Azure and Kubernetes, communicating asynchronously over Azure Service Bus. The product is a cloud practice-management platform for professional firms.

  • Built the Elasticsearch search service: indexing via Service Bus, attachment text with Tika and OCR, zero-downtime reindexing.
  • Built the real-time notifications service with Spring WebFlux, Server-Sent Events and Hazelcast.
  • Led the migration of every microservice to Java 19 and JHipster 7.9.
  • Adopted a code-first approach: the database schema comes from the JPA model and evolves with Liquibase.
More results
  • Introduced generative AI with Langchain4j and Azure OpenAI, to generate realistic demo data.
  • Quality: ArchUnit, Testcontainers in GitLab CI, SonarQube.

Bots and automation

Python scripts and bots that do the repetitive work for me:

  • Sannicandro News: a Telegram bot that posts news about my town. Still running today, on GitHub Actions.
  • VarieTee Bot: a Telegram bot that scrapes the t-shirts of the day every morning and posts them to a channel.
  • Hospital Result Checker: a Selenium scraper that polls the hospital portal until a swab test result appears and sends it on Telegram.

2019

CFJ Manager

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, jQuery, Bootstrap, Docker

A people and course management system for Casa Frate Jacopa: registry, enrolments, calendar, email. It has been in use ever since, and I still maintain it.

2018

Lead Software Engineer

KlopotekOctober 2018 – October 2020

Promoted from Software Engineer to Lead Software Engineer at Klopotek. On top of development, planned user stories and tasks in sprint planning with the Product Owner, Development Manager and QA Manager.

2017

Competitive programming

2017 – 2022

Algorithm contests, alone and in teams, with my solutions published on GitHub.

  • Google Hash Code, Google’s team contest: 103rd in Italy in 2017 in a team of two, again in 2018; in 2020, ran the contest hub at Klopotek and competed in a team of four.
  • Google Code Jam: round 1A in 2017, qualification round passed in 2020. Solutions in Java.
  • Advent of Code: the December puzzles from 2020 to 2022, in Java and then Kotlin.

Hub Organizer certificate

2016

Klopotek

Software Engineer, poi Lead Software Engineer, Gioia del ColleSeptember 2016 – October 2020

Technologies: Java 8, Java EE, JAX-RS (Jersey), Hibernate, Oracle (PL/SQL), Apache Solr, Redis, Jenkins (CI/CD)

13 more

WildFly, Maven, ActiveMQ, Keycloak, AngularJS, JUnit, JMeter, Git, GitLab, SonarQube, SonarLint, Jira, Scrum

From 2016 to 2020, designed from scratch the services of STREAM, Klopotek’s new multi-tenant web platform for publishers (contracts, rights and royalties): from the Oracle database schema to the software architecture, all the way to the Java EE REST APIs.

  • Designed the contracts service from scratch: database schema, architecture and REST API (JAX-RS, Hibernate, Oracle), with JUnit tests, JMeter load tests and SonarQube fixes.
  • Worked with continuous integration and delivery: code on GitLab, CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins, code quality checked with SonarQube and, right in the IDE, with SonarLint.

2015

Fincons Group

Software Engineer, BariMarch 2015 – September 2016

Technologies: Java EE, JSP/Servlet, Spring, Hibernate, WebLogic, Tomcat, Oracle PL/SQL, jQuery

Java EE and Spring enterprise applications on Oracle (PL/SQL): new features plus adaptive and corrective maintenance for Mediaset’s systems for contracts, TV schedules and broadcasting rights. Before that, a three-month company academy.

2014

BSc in Computer Science, 110/110 cum laude

Università di Bari “Aldo Moro”2011 – 2014, completed in the standard three years

Algorithms, databases, software engineering, operating systems, networks, expert systems.

Course projects
  • Decision Tree Classifier: a Java and MySQL client-server app with data mining.
  • ADISys: scheduling of home visits by nurses and doctors (Java, Android).
  • Beleaf: an expert system on woody plants (Java, Android, Jess).

2011

High school diploma in accounting and programming

ITC “Giulio Cesare”, Bari2006 – 2011

Five years of accounting, law and above all programming. In 2010, first in my school’s selection for the Italian Olympiad in Informatics.

OlympiadECDLCisco IT Essentials