Alberto Motta
Engineering Manager at NearForm
Pioltello, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAlberto Motta is an experienced engineering manager based in Lombardy, Italy, with a decade of hands-on software and leadership experience across startups and scale-ups. He excels at turning product vision into shipped features, having halved team turnaround times and grown headcount while maintaining over 95% retention at Hasura. Equally comfortable in code and management, he contributes to prominent open-source projects like Hasura’s GraphQL console UI—building React components, tests, and feature-flagged interfaces. His background ranges from CTO responsibilities at a startup to leading frontend migrations and building teams from scratch, giving him a practical blend of architecture, hiring, and delivery skills. Notably, his legal education and early experience in lawrooms and retail bring uncommon strengths in documentation, stakeholder negotiation, and customer empathy.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Android developer, Samsung App Academy, Android developer, Samsung App Academy at Politecnico di MilanoMaturità scientifica, Maturità scientifica at Liceo ScientificoMaster of Laws (LLM), Erasmus Programme exchange student, Master of Laws (LLM), Erasmus Programme exchange student at L-Università ta' Malta / University of MaltaDottore Magistrale in Giurisprudenza, Diritto, Dottore Magistrale in Giurisprudenza, Diritto at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Italian, English, Spanish, latino
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Github Skills (13)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
feature-flags9
storybook8
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hasura/graphql-engine
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 8 comments, 7 issues in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily contributed to the console UI, implementing and enhancing React components. Their work included creating a `RouteLoader` component with associated testing, developing a `CardedTable` component with storybook examples, and integrating feature flags for UI elements like the remote schema relationships tab and database relationship tab. The user's contributions involved modifying UI components and integrating with feature flags for controlling UI element visibility.
realtimefine-grained-access-controlgraphql-serversql-serverhaskell
afmotta/afmotta-website
Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 6 months
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