Mauro Mandracchia's Curriculum Vitae

Admarkt is Martkplaats's first party advertising platform, enabling businesses to create and manage sponsored listings across our classifieds marketplaces.
I joined during the transition from eBay Classifieds Group to Adevinta, and took part in shaping the strategy to evolve our products into formats that enhanced business opportunities in a Retail Media context.

My role combined technical leadership with hands-on fullstack development. I led a team of four engineers, coordinated with stakeholders to provide accurate delivery estimations, ensured architectural alignment with the broader platform ecosystem, and maintained compatibility with the existing targeting and tracking infrastructure.

I contributed to both the frontend and backend, focusing heavily on delivering performant, user-friendly interfaces for the B2C side of:

• Marktplaats.nl
• 2dehands.be / 2ememain.be
• Kijiji.ca
• Kleinanzeigen.de

My contributions include:

• Defining and implementing the technical strategy for the Admarkt user interface across multiple international marketplaces.
• Remodernizing legacy codebases and migrating them towards modern JavaScript/TypeScript and React-based architectures.
• Building new features with an iterative approach to maximize business impact while maintaining high code quality.
• Leading the design and integration of APIs for ad management, reporting, and analytics.
• Aligning frontend architecture with backend services and the existing targeting/goal-setting stack.
• Collaborating with UX/UI designers to improve advertiser workflows and ad creation processes.
• Mentoring team members and fostering an environment of technical excellence.
• Ensuring continuous delivery through CI/CD pipelines and automated testing suites.

Wilbur is a real-time dashboard that delivers insights to empower Schiphol's Operations, my main focus was on building solutions for the Airside Operations. When I joined we were facing some issues in scaling up our infrastructure, due to the use of an opinionated tool for building Event Sourcing Platforms called EventStore. I helped migrate to the new event based infrastructure build on Kafka and helped deliver core utilities that could leverage the features of Kafka from Server to Client. We combined Kafka with Redis as main state storage and OpenShift for our Container infrastructure.

Now we have a scalable event infrasructure that is proven to process billion of events, we build Projections to provide calculated state.

My contributions includes:

• Initiate Data Quality Awareness by delivering tools and methods to help determine the quality and the health of data streams.
• Build real-time Cartographic Data in the Airside Map and visualize data sources that include: Radar, GPS, Ramps Information and Flight Events.
• Analyse the quality and opportunities of exisisting or new Data streams.
• Setup new Data pipelines.
• Integrate AI solutions build by other departments.
• Build the new version of the Central Decision Making Portal.
• Participate and improve the On Call process.

When I joined Customer Experience, my main focus was to help them split the complexity of a monolithic for the main channel of communication, the website of the Airport.

We started with minor services, such as Advertising at Schiphol, we collaborated with different departments and match their to develop solutions that then would shape as standards of Microservices for Schiphol.nl.

Based on the first experience we refactor the existing Component core logic and we split them in a monorepo to be re-used across projects.

We delivered automated tooling that could be re-used across projects through Makefile recipes and start the containerization of our infrastructure with Docker for local development and AKS for our running environments.

Other achievements includes:

• Create the Retail section of the Airport
• Create the Passenger facing Map
• Create the knowledge base for Airport Assistants
• Setup of complex A/B strategies for improved Passenger Experience

As JavaScript Teacher at HackYourFuture we teach fundamental of Programming by always being challenged by Language barrier and Learning Curves.

The School Program haims, and succeed, to make Full-Stack Developer in six months; during my class my students might be approaching coding for the first time. We cover all the basic aspects of programming by teaching Primitives and Core aspect or more advance topics like introductions to TDD and BDD. We support them during the assignments and we do code reviews to make sure that they deliver good quality code.

In July 2017 trough HYF I had the opportunity to teach web development to 10 students selected by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in UNHR office in Duhok - Iraq.

InSided is a Community Solution delivered has SaaS Product. Building User Interface at InSided means dealing with great challengs in UI Architectures.

JavaScript Components needs to be: customised, optimised and deploy across multiple instances; util they would get consumed from the million of users.

Now my bites of code proudly runs for communities like: SoundCloud, Sonos, TomTom, Philips, T-Mobile, BNP-Paribas, Rabobank, Ziggo, Eneco and much more.

As Front-end developer working in the core functionalities, my key responsibilities included:

• Build Barebones UI Component Library

  - Easy to setup and deploy - Can generate documentations - Can optimise Assets - Can be extended - Has Command Line Interface for Development and Productions tasks

• UI Compilations Pipelines

  Ensuring hundreds of deploy for our Implementations Projects, by running fast and without errors.
  Keeping in mind the SEO quality and the smallest footprint possible.

• End-to-End Assistant

  Helping QA Team in setting up a UI Testing Framework for Local or Continuous Testing.

Other activities nice to mentions are:

• Out of Office Hours

  Monitoring and making sure that the platform was always up, by Fixing or revert a wrong deploy; or changing the load balancing strategies.

• Mentoring Core Front-End Developers

  Bring practices and enforce with tools, teach the infrastructure compositions, the ingredients to make sure that new joiners could push the first line of code in production in their first week.

• Organising Front-End Meetups

  Be open is one of the InSided Core Values.
  InSided offer me the possibility to organise Programming meetups, for sharing knowledge and expand the network of developers and companies.

This website, my complete CV and professional work history was completed within a week. I made it with love and JS. Thanks to the power of the latest HTML5 standards, I was able to animate it with simple lines of code.

This website can be found on GitHub. Below you will find a list of the JS libraries I used to build the site:

• Backbone.js
• Paper.js
• D3.js

I believe in open source, and I love to share my passion and work with the world whenever possible. This is why I have constructed several repositories with different projects. These can be found below:

• Tire-Bouchon

  A PHP bootstrap framework with ORM integration and JS and View strategies.

  GitHub

• Socks Logger

  A NodeJS runtime sever that is an interface to allow logging of applications and manage logs.

  GitHub

• PHP Socks

  A PHP integration for the Socks Logger.

  GitHub

In this fast-paced Software-as-a-Service business, my job title was Front End Developer, but in reality, "Full Stack Developer" would be a more accurate description of my role.

I managed and developed key UIs and functionalities that were rolled out to a global customer base. Among the most significant were the following:

• Testimonial Publisher

  UI and functionality to export filtered customer feedback and embed rolling comments on your website.

• Mail Engine

  UI to manage a Queue of Contacts, and design and create HTML emails to be sent through MailExpress (a Python Engine).

• Survey Builder

  UI and functionalities that enables users to build customer satisfaction surveys with different widgets and customization.

Project Design and Executive of Communication for Advertising and Decorations, with printing and digital technologies.

My key responsibilities included:

• Identifying the customer's needs and collaborating with them to find a solution that fit their budget and requirements.
• Ensuring that the customer stayed engaged and satisfied with the project from start to finish.

When I joined the company I was originally tasked with developing Tasks and Bills management software, but over the course of the year we moved toward other projects for different business needs.

My key projects included:

• Task and Bill Basic Management System
• Booker for Educational Courses
• Software for autogeneration of PDF Certificates

Website creation DixitPress and CMS system to manage the publication of online media.

Website creation for the café “Note Amare”, at archita company.

Website creation for Teknoweb, the industry that manufactures wet wipes and paper technologies.

Website creation for Passerini Recuperi, a recycling company.

Simple CMS for news and content management.

Video editing for the Artigian Carta industry, at archita company

3D rendering for the Artigian Carta stand for Paper Industry Expo

3D rendering for the industry Teknoweb, at archita company.

For an internal presentation and then for the B2B patterns, videos editing and mastering for new products.

Mural creation 4x2m for the live painting event at the Stazione Leopolda.

Mural creation 3x2m for “Arte sui tubi” event at the Leopolda station.

Logo paint, made with spray and stencil for the Pisa University, at the “Laboratorio di cultura digitale”.

Management of video recording the event "Learn to Lead" for Fabio Pierini

Stock photos of final products, clean and cut, for advertising materials.

Simple set of icons for B2B communications in the paper industry world.

Website creation EuroPackaging, an Italian company of packaging products.

Ordine degli ingegneri is an association of engineers in the province of Pistoia. We revamped its website using a WordPress base and customized it to get a CMS style. Inside the platform, I built a number of plugins. These included:

• Members synchronization

• Custom Profile Informations

  Each member has the possibility to decide which information to show, and even add extra information such as profile picture, personal CV, or tag him or herself with keywords.

Photographer for the theatrical season at Teatro lux in Pisa.

Website creation of the “Official World Ju-Jitsu Federation Italy”, working on graphics, format and server programming.

Official photographer for the event “Sulle note di Ale”

Social multimedia project creation, Mr. Box.

Flyer for the “Notte bianca” event in Lampedusa (Ag).

Web design for the web site HorrorMovie.it

T-shirt Designer for Samdays event (Riva del Garda).

Website creation, for the B&B Atenea 191 on Agrigento.