Alberto Coletta is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, event-driven backend systems in high-traffic, regulated domains. He specializes in Scala and Rust and has led cross-team initiatives to improve performance and reliability—most recently optimizing a multi-tenant, event-sourced commerce platform handling 7M+ requests per minute and cutting cloud spend by roughly $1M. Alberto combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, having led Moneyfarm’s Backend Chapter to standardize practices and driven Kafka-based redesigns that significantly boosted throughput. His roots in security and fraud research include a published MSc project on mobile malware detection, giving him a practical edge in building resilient systems. Colocated in Milan, he favors pragmatic language choice and enjoys turning messy problem spaces into simple, robust solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 4 months
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Alberto Coletta - Senior Software Engineer at Gigs