From my first website circa 1996 fast forward to a product used by millions at Trip.com, then later at Skyscanner, I love the challenges, learnings, hard work, and grit it takes to create something from scratch and stick to it from beginning to end.
I’m a seasoned software engineer with an entrepreneurial mindset and product-oriented attitude with extensive expertise leading, building, and shipping large scale full-stack consumer internet applications with a keen eye for web design, user experience, and aesthetics.
Principal Software Engineer at Skyscanner
Palo Alto from Sep 2017 to Mar 2020.
Skyscanner (a CTrip company) is a $4 billion travel company, serving more than 100 million users monthly in 40+ countries.
Achievements:
- Led the integration and technical initiatives after Trip.com acquisition
- Adapted original product to run inside Skyscanner AWS cloud using Docker reducing planned integration time from six to under two months
- Helped plan and execute the transition from Ruby on Rails stack to a Java-based microservices backend and serverless architecture with a client-side frontend using Open Components and React, coordinating with teams in London, Edinburgh, and Barcelona
Senior Software Engineer at Trip.com
Palo Alto from Mar 2011 to Sep 2017.
Trip.com (formerly Gogobot) is an online travel company backed by Expedia, Redpoint, and Battery ventures and was acquired by Skyscanner in 2017.
Lead engineer of key product features including:
- I18n in 13 languages for mobile and web as well as content, UI strings and search increasing traffic 8x in less than a year
- Hotel Metasearch and bidding platform for partners like Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Priceline… that generated more than $2M in revenue in its first year
- Gamification and viral loops that helped grow the user base to upwards of 5 million adding 100k users alone in a single day at its peak
Responsible for day to day operations along with:
- Site reliability/DevOps and performance optimization
- Continuous integration and automated testing
Brazil from Nov 2009 to Oct 2011.
Featured by TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, among others, Mentaway was one of the first travel startups of the Web 2.0 era to incorporate innovative ideas like location tracking and service mashup to create a unique online travel journal.
Brazil from Sep 2008 to Oct 2011.
First fully automated movie aggregation website and iOS app in Brazil combining movies, synopsis, trailers, showtimes, and user-generated reviews.
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Specialties: System Architecture, Internationalization, Product Design, Data Analysis, Automation, Search, API
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Technologies: Apache SOLR, Memcache, Ruby/Rails, Javascript, NGINX, MySQL, Docker, HTML, Linux, Redis, Node, Java, CSS, SQL, PHP
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Education: B.S. in Computer Science Ulbra Brazil 2002, Sun Certified Java Developer 2004
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Hobbies: Woodworking, Running, Surfing
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Comms: https://eduardosasso.co, eduardo.sasso@gmail.com
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Elsewhere: Github, LinkedIn, Twitter
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Other formats: Google docs, PDF