Leonardo Ferro

I am a full-stack engineer based in Amsterdam. I graduated in computer science engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan.

My focus area is web application development, specializing in building high-performance and reliable solutions. I’m particularly passionate about fintech projects, where I can leverage computational thinking and analytic reasoning.

My Journey

D2X, Amsterdam | 2022 - Present

D2X is a leading European fintech startup, creating a fully regulated derivatives exchange for digital assets. Backed by Point72 in our Series A funding.

Full-Stack Engineer

• Achievements:
  • Manage a multi-component monorepo with multiple CI/CD pipelines.
  • Manage the public documentation of the exchange.
  • Manage a junior engineer.
  • Plan sprint and roadmap with the product owner of the team.
  • Implement a websocket based trading interface. work in progress
  • Define npm company modules for the frontend team. work in progress
• Technologies:
  • Helmfile, Docusaurus, Rxjs, StoryBook, Sockets.io, MUI-Data-Grid.

Junior Frontend Engineer

• Achievements:

  • Implement a portal for Institutional members to configure and control control granularly all aspects of the exchange.
  • Contribute to the design of a multi schema relational database of the exchange.
  • Implement multiple CI/CD pipelines.
  • Manage a team of two interns.
  • Handle a pentest session with a third party company.
  • Programmatically declare the infrastructure of the webapp and related components.
  • Monitor Performances and Metrics of the webapps.
  • Develop prompting skills for AI tools and services.

• Technologies:

  • MUI, PostgreSQL, Github Actions, Vercel, AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus.

Technology Intern

• Achievements:
  • Implement d2x.com website.
  • Mastering versioning tools.
  • Get familiar to the Agile workflow.
• Technologies:
  • Next.js, Typescript, Git, Linux, Jira, Confluence Figma, Strapi.

Social Thingum, Milan (IT) | 2021 - 2022

Social Thingum is an innovative and dynamic startup with an AI core business.

Full Stack Intern

• Results:
  • Delivered multiple projects for different clients.
• Technologies:
  • React, javascript, html, css, Firebase, Bootstrap.