Alberto Forni
Senior Software Developer at Balsamiq
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolAlberto Forni is a Senior Software Developer based in Bologna with 11 years of experience building user-facing web applications and a strong focus on interactive, user-friendly editors. After a career start as a Chartered Accountant, he retrained in web development (General Assembly WDI) and transitioned into frontend engineering roles at SafetyCulture, ThoughtWorks, Tes and now Balsamiq, where he’s spent over six years on the editor team. He brings a rare blend of product-minded UI engineering and business/financial acumen, enabling pragmatic trade-offs between usability, scalability and customer value. Skilled in Ember.js, modular CSS, single-page architectures and front-end migrations, he’s also mentored juniors and influenced cross-functional decisions including deployment and API design. Always curious, he leverages his auditing and process-driven background to produce reliable, well-tested interfaces that prioritize real customer feedback.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
lynda.comWDI - Web Development Immersive, Computer Software Engineering, WDI - Web Development Immersive, Computer Software Engineering at General AssemblyCode SchoolKiller PHPMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Accounting & Business Skills, 108/110, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Accounting & Business Skills, 108/110 at University of FerraraTreehouse
Italian, English
Github Skills (89)
pdf-document10
pdfkit10
sdk10
pdfium10
trend10
javascript9
sql9
meta-framework9
database9
emscripten9
balsamiq9
pdf-generation9
svg9
rescript9
reason-react9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
albertoforni/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:18 pushes in 8 years 6 months
albertodotcom/debounce-query-params
Jun 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 8 months
queryember-addonparamsdebounceemberjs
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