Gabriele Brosulo

Senior Backend Developer

About

G4b0 (aka Gabriele Brosulo) is a developer, sysadmin, and long-time advocate of open source and computing culture. When not in front of a terminal, he's on a surfboard, a snowboard, or a rock face.

Profile

Computer Science graduate (Systems & Networks) from the University of Turin, with 25 years of field experience spanning software development, system administration, DevOps, and technical team leadership, often in direct contact with clients and stakeholders.

Currently senior backend developer at an online ticketing company: PHP 8, Laravel, microservice architecture, legacy system migration. Past work includes embedded firmware in C, Android development in Java, and full-stack coverage from bare metal to the browser.

KISS is a design principle, not a shortcut. Documentation comes before assumptions. In recent years, he has integrated prompt engineering and AI-assisted development into his workflow, with one firm rule: drive the AI model, don't be driven by it.

Skills

backend : PHP 8, Laravel, REST API

architecture : microservices, legacy migration, Agile Scrum

cloud : AWS, Docker, CI/CD

infrastructure : Linux/UNIX, DevOps, RabbitMQ

data storage : MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB

languages : PHP, JavaScript, C, Java, SQL, Bash

frontend : Vue.js, HTML5, CSS3

AI : prompt engineering, AI-assisted dev

best practice : design patterns, SOLID, KISS, clean code

other : Git, open source

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science (Systems & Networks) – University of Turin, 2006, 102/110
Technical Diploma (Surveying) – Don Bosco Institute, Lombriasco (TO), 2000, 96/100
Continuous learning – technical docs, RFCs, release notes, open source community

Manifesto

"I do not write based on others' ideas. I don't see the world like most people do — this has been held against me for a long time! … Why should I present as doubt what I personally do not doubt at all?"

J.-J. Rousseau, Émile, or On Education (1762)