Christian Toscano

Bologna, Italy

A passionate Backend engineer from Italy. Ruby and Go. Former team lead.

> I believe that technology is designed to simplify people's lives.

Now: Backend at Qonto
Stack: Ruby Go Postgres
Blog: 9 posts

Experience

Aug 2025 - current Qonto Ruby & Go Developer · AI Leader for my team May 2024 - Aug 2025 Prima Assicurazioni Elixir Developer · Security Leader for my team Mar 2021 - May 2024 Extendi Backend Team Leader · Ruby on Rails Fullstack Developer · Sidekiq at a scale · Microservices infrastructure · AWS, Docker, CI/CD

Oct 2020 - Mar 2021 Lab51 Agency Full-Stack Developer (ExpressJS, NextJS, React) · AWS, Docker

Feb 2019 - Oct 2020 Mango Mobile Agency Full-Stack Developer (Spring Boot, React) · Mobile Android Developer (Java, Kotlin) · DevOps responsible for CI/CD infrastructure and Linux VPS

Oct 2015 - Mar 2019 Bachelor Degree Engineering & Computer Science at University of Bologna

Projects

2024 Coney.app Ruby on Rails · GoodJob · AWS 2022 tiTrovo.casa Ruby on Rails · Sidekiq · AWS 2022 to-result Ruby 2022 Faenz Ruby on Rails · Heroku · Docker

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Events

conference
Rubycon · Rimini, Italy

Rubycon Organizer

RubyDay went away, so a few of us built our own: a full day of Ruby talks in Rimini, speakers picked for what they know rather than who pays, and it ends on a Friday so the sea is right there when it does.
radio interview
Storytime · Bologna, Italy

How it feels being a software developer today

An hour on Bologna radio about what this job is actually like, told honestly: the good days, the pages at 3am, and why I still choose it.

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Blog

2025-09-12 View Models in Rails: An experiment to solve the chaos 2024-11-18 Best Visual Studio Code extensions and settings for Ruby and Rails 2024-08-16 Inside SaaS: Running a SaaS with Ruby on Rails

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