Gianfranco Salomone

MecanTronic · Remote · Buenos Aires

Tech Lead and DevOps; designed scalable AWS infrastructure, drove architectural modernization with Ports & Adapters, reduced legacy cloud costs by 30%, and led the team's adoption of AI-assisted development workflows.

• →Designed backend infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, focusing on scalability, isolation, security and maintainability.
• →Led adoption of Ports & Adapters architecture, replacing a fragmented Python/SQL approach.
• →Led adoption of AI-assisted development workflows across the team.
• →Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub/AWS.
• →Reduced AWS legacy costs by 30%, while improving security posture.
• →Mentored teams into making their own design choices, while keeping global consistency.

EPIC iO · Remote · US

Infrastructure optimization, deployment automation, monitoring integrations to ensure reliability and efficiency of AI applications.

• →Introduced asynchronous processing patterns to decouple API services from compute-heavy pipelines.
• →Standardized and hardened internal Computer Vision APIs, turning prototype endpoints into reliable, production-ready backend services.
• →Automated performance testing with Locust and Bitbucket pipelines.
• →Implemented observability and profiling using OpenTelemetry.
• →Improved release times from 8hs to 2hs, by using Docker multi-stage and Ansible.
• →Automated performance testing with Locust and Bitbucket pipelines.

Aivilo · Remote · US

Tasked with integrating security RBAC to almost-finished MVP.

• →Used ClaudeCode to generate specifications, planning, implementation and testing of RBAC in existing microservices.
• →Fast paced startup environment.

Baitcon/AySA · Remote · Buenos Aires

Lead developer and consultant in Python projects. Company's projects range from ETL to FullStack applications. All environments are deployed in SAP BTP or SAP AI Core. Most projects are geared towards in-company management.

• →Managed multi-environment deployments (DEV, STG, PRD) ensuring consistency and reliability.
• →Designed ETL pipelines for data migration (Oracle → SAP HANA), handling data ingestion, transformation, and normalization across enterprise systems.
• →Led PoC of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system on client data sources.
• →Established testing strategies to ensure system reliability across SAP-related updates and deployments.

Upwork/AtticGames · Remote · US

LLM integration to a game-engine, in order to generate endless content for worlds based on the user's prompt. Main challenge: response repeatability.

• →Used Ollama locally for game content generation.
• →Created content for worlds by layering different steps of world creation.
• →Convert user prompts to standardized JSON, based on the world's setting.
• →Integrated with the main engine using REST API.
• →Create prompt manager UI in order to quickly iterate over promts more easily.

IoT MecanTronic · Remote · Buenos Aires

Main developer of IoT Grafana reporting project.

• →Deployed and maintained hospital-noise metrics dashboard.
• →Deployed and maintained QuickGrill calibration data metrics dashboard.
• →Improved how logs are stored and rotated in docker containers.
• →Maintained custom MQTT codebase for IoT projects.

Shuttle99 · Remote · Canary Islands

Maintained a complex Flask project deployed across multiple countries in multiple languages. Worked through all the stack of technologies of the project: frontend in JavaScript, HTML and CSS, backend in Flask, database in PostgreSQL and Redis. Databases stored tens of thousands of clients.

• →Maintained backend systems handling multi-country integrations (REST/SOAP APIs).
• →Managed relational data models in PostgreSQL for production systems.
• →Built automated E2E testing to ensure reliability of distributed integrations.

Emissary Software LLC · Remote · New York

My main responsibilities were to perform first surveys of new technologies, Cypress E2E testing and making sure the company was compliant with current US standard security policies.

• →Dockerized and deployed apps on AWS, optimizing for legacy Ubuntu versions.
• →Conducted Cypress end-to-end (E2E) testing to ensure quality and reliability.
• →Integrated MailShake to the main Django app using REST API, enhancing cold-email reporting.
• →Responded to security questionnaires from prospective clients, addressing inquiries about our user data protection policies, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and the security practices we would implement.
• →Performed initial tests of Wazuh integration for server monitoring.

QuickGrill · Remote · Buenos Aires

Worked independently for a startup which developed a bluetooth-controlled grill. I was tasked to create the interface between an Android device and the grill's brain.

• →Developed an Android app for Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity to an embedded turbine speed controller.
• →Designed the mobile app frontend using React Native and Typescript.
• →Implemented backend connectivity with ESP32 using C++ and Platform IO.

UNLZ - UNGS - FIE - UB · Remote · Buenos Aires

I've always been a teacher at heart. I taught on many levels through many years.

• →Designed and structured comprehensive syllabi for Electronics and Control Systems courses.
• →Developed Physics simulations using MATLAB.
• →Designed and implemented hands-on lab experiences for Physics students.
• →Created and facilitated laboratory experiments for Electronics students using Arduino and Arduino-based simulations.
• →Simulated and analyzed linear and non-linear control strategies using MATLAB and Python.
• →Advocated for transitioning from closed-source software (MATLAB) to open-source alternatives (Python).

Facultad de Ingeniería del Ejército · Remote · Buenos Aires

I was tasked with designing a sun follower system to be used to improve energy efficiency of the electronics lab.

• →Designed a sun follower system using a 3-phase motor.
• →Automation performed with SCADA PLC.
• →Implemented control logic in Ladder language and created LabView dashboards.

Defense Ministry/CITEDEF · Remote · Buenos Aires

Upgrade for training sofware used in LASER duel simulators for the Argentine army.

• →Blank ammunition shot detected via optical sensors.
• →Shooter information sent via solid state pulse laser.
• →Shooter ID and timestamp stored in the target unit.