SAND GAROFALO

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I'm a full-time software developer with 4+ years of experience and have made this site to have a personal landing page that I can use to publish anything I find relevant.

My stack is mainly Vue.js using TypeScript for the frontend (this site was built with them and Nuxt ) and .NET for developing backend systems.

professional career timeline

Full-Stack Software Developer | Elmec Informatica S.p.A.

Feb 2025 — Present

current position

Remote role within a rapidly growing team building full-stack business applications, from time tracking platforms to specialized internal tools that streamline operational workflows.

Defined team-wide engineering standards coding conventions, shared technology choices and a unified testing — and onboarded new developers into them.
Authored shared libraries adopted across the team for backend and frontend environments, ranging from shared UI component ones to standardizers / wrappers of server-side pagination, filtering, and sorting via REST URL conventions.
Shipped end-to-end full-stack applications by owning the entire architectural process: analyses, edge cases, integrations, business requirements, drafting data bank schemas, source code write, releases (w. notices), writing / maintaining up-to-date documentation, handling of new feats / bugs via ticketing systems.
Optimized performance across a variety of flows rewriting existing workloads with more efficient code and technologies. Constant stress-testing existing implementations to apply greater degrees of normalization / simplicity.
Led team's migration to newer stacks / patterns / frameworks transitioning from pure JS code to typed TS one; implement frontend file-based routing from manual SPA routes; shift from strict stored procedures data access to fully fledged usage of EF Core and more.

Software Developer | Softray S.r.l. & Cluster Reply S.r.l. — OVS S.p.A.

Jul 2022 - Feb 2025

Long-term consulting engagement at OVS and other minor companies contributing across multi year migrations of legacy desktop applications — including a large monolithic WinForms application and a Qlik report-browsing tool — to cloud-based services and modern web frontends.

Contributed across all three phases of the legacy-to-cloud migration (1) replacing direct DB calls with cloud REST APIs; (2) extracting features into independent microservices and micro-apps, with strict UI/server separation and OpenAPI specs generated from TypeScript type definitions; (3) building the web apps that replaced the desktop monoliths.
Bridged legacy and cloud worlds in parallel for the entire engagement release management for the legacy WinForms apps (versioning, regression testing, per-feature publication via the internal deployment tool) ran alongside cloud feature delivery through Git based pipelines w. CI preview environments. Built a companion WPF monitoring app to keep oversight on the legacy side. Source control split: TFS for legacy, Git/GitLab for cloud.
Authored shared internal libraries reused across services ranging from UI component libraries used across web frontends to a database access layer that uniformized queries across genuinely heterogeneous backends — IBM DB2 z/OS on mainframe (with both DB2-specific SQL and RQL) alongside modern SQL Server. Documentation conventions (README / CHANGELOG) followed throughout the codebase.
Established a multi-layer testing strategy unit / component coverage + end-to-end flows + production behavior monitoring through log dashboards. Made refactoring safe across the long migration timeline.