Nico Albanese - DX Engineer at Vercel

Nico Albanese

DX Engineer at Vercel

London, England, United Kingdom

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Nico Albanese is a DX Engineer at Vercel in London with five years of experience building developer-facing AI tooling. He contributes to the high-profile vercel/ai open-source SDK—updating Next.js examples, enabling streaming for OpenAI/HuggingFace/AWS Bedrock, and adding features like OpenAI’s store and metadata while fixing Vue UI issues and contributing a human-in-the-loop recipe. A maker and maintainer, he also created the Kirimase CLI to speed Next.js app scaffolding and publishes side projects like an open-source deal-flow OS and a Pitch-to-PDF Chrome extension. Before focusing full-time on developer experience he spent several years in venture at Ascension, blending product engineering with investment insight, and he began as a self-taught mobile developer who shipped iPhone apps with 15k+ downloads.

6 years of coding experience

15 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi'

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at HKUST Business School

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at University of Southern California

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at The World Bachelor in Business

HS Diploma, HS Diploma at The American School in London

English, Italian

Github Skills (19)

typescript310

javascript10

vercel10

typescript10

next-js10

typescript210

javascripts10

openai10

typescript-types10

typescripts10

react10

generative-ai9

Programming languages (4)

TypeScriptMDXRustJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

vercel/ai

Nov 2023 - Apr 2025

The AI Toolkit for TypeScript. From the creators of Next.js, the AI SDK is a free open-source library for building AI-powered applications and agents

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:516 reviews, 230 PRs, 263 pushes in 1 year 4 months

Contributions summary:Nico primarily contributed to the AI toolkit's example applications, focusing on Next.js and AI integration. They updated examples for various AI models including OpenAI, HuggingFace, and AWS Bedrock, ensuring compatibility and enabling streaming responses. Furthermore, the user introduced new features like OpenAI's "store" and metadata functionality. The user was also involved in fixing UI issues related to the Vue components and contributed to the "human-in-the-loop" recipe.

anthropicartificial-intelligencegeminigenerative-aigenerative-ui

nicoalbanese/ascension-site-rebrand

Apr 2021 - Nov 2022

Contributions:167 commits, 165 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months

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