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Alessio Prestileo

Senior Frontend Engineer

Mobile: +1 458 600 4103
Location: Redmond, OR 97756, USA

Profile

Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of professional experience and deep expertise in software architecture. Proven track record in developing and maintaining web and mobile applications using a variety of languages and frameworks. Excellent problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail. Exceptional ability to review code and mentor less experienced developers.

Skills

  • Programming skills

    • Clean code
    • Refactoring
    • Debugging
    • Testing
    • Monorepo

  • Programming Languages

    • TypeScript
    • HTML, CSS, JS
    • Python
    • C++
    • Haskell
    • SQL

  • Personal Skills

    • Mentoring
    • Reliability
    • Receptiveness
    • Collaboration

  • Frameworks & Libraries

    • React
    • Redux
    • NodeJS
    • npm
    • Webpack
    • React Native
    • Angular

  • Other tools

    • Git
    • Jira

  • Natural Languages

    • English
    • Italian
    • Norwegian
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Oslo, Norway and remote, US
2020-Present
Forsta AS
  • Main contact for TypeScript within the company.
  • Practically eliminated runtime errors on 500k lines codebase by improving types.
  • Contributed to new features by writing implementation, unit tests and e2e tests.
  • Spent ~20% of time reviewing pull requests from other developers.
  • Solved a variety of urgent bugs reported by users, as well as well known problems caused by poor architecture.
  • Significantly improved deployment pipeline built with TeamCity (increased automation, reduced build time).
  • Collaborated with UI/UX experts to enhance user experience and contributed to development and maintenance of a company-wide design system.
  • Key role in technical interviews for prospective candidates (~50 candidates assessed in 2022, 12 candidates hired).
  • Significantly improved developer experience by developing coding conventions and internal tooling.
  • Contributed to the development and maintenance of an internal design system counting ~50 UI components.
  • Assumed leadership in overseeing and delivering impactful, large-scale projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams of developers spanning diverse areas of expertise.

Senior Software Engineer

Oslo, Norway
2018-2020
Zirius AS
  • Developed an ERP web application and an expense claim mobile app.
  • Created and maintained design system implementation and developed coding conventions.
  • Created and maintained deployment pipeline.
  • Implemented OAuth 2.0 authentication for web and mobile clients.
  • Assumed the role of frontend lead, mentoring and performing code reviews for less experienced developers.
  • Conducted interviews, created tests and home assignments to assess prospective candidates.

Software Engineer

Oslo, Norway
2017-2018
07 Media AS
  • Developed and maintained websites using Drupal and Wordpress on the backend, Angular and Vue on the frontend.
  • Key contributor to the development and maintenance speiding.no and tradisjonsmat.no

Structural Engineer

Oslo, Norway
2011-2016
DNV
  • Performed non-linear FE calculations to assess the ultimate strength of marine structures.
  • Developed customized features for engineering applications using Python and C++.

Individual Learning

2016-Present
  • Strongly typed functional languages: Haskell, PureScript and Elm.
  • “Master Class in Software Architecture” course taught by “Uncle Bob” Martin.
  • Fundamentals of 3D graphics in OpenGL.
  • Advanced use of pointers, templates and polymorphism in C++.

Education

  • M.S. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
    2011
    University of Genoa, Italy
  • B.S. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
    2008
    University of Genoa, Italy