Alberto Xamin
Software Engineer at Rippling
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlberto Xamin is a seasoned software engineer with 10 years of experience building backend and full-stack systems across startups and major tech companies, currently at Rippling in London. He has shipped large-scale reliability and performance improvements at Meta (saving ~5% bandwidth on Instagram media uploads) and at Taktile (40x latency reduction and automated release processes), as well as product work at Datadog on SAST for cloud security. Comfortable across systems, APIs and React frontends, he’s an active open-source contributor — notably implementing a full Raycast extension for a multilingual Finnish dictionary with thoughtful UX and fallback translations. With dual masters in CS and AI/Robotics and a background in RL research and mobile apps, he blends academic depth with pragmatic engineering that speeds delivery and reduces operational cost.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Università di TrentoMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySummer School in Data Visualisation and Connectivity for Healthcare, Summer School in Data Visualisation and Connectivity for Healthcare at Coventry University LondonMaster of Engineering - MEng Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Master of Engineering - MEng Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at Aalto UniversityMaster's degree in Autonomous Systems Minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Master's degree in Autonomous Systems Minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at EIT Digital AlumniComputer Science, Computer Science at ITT E. Barsanti
Italian, English, German, Swedish, Finnish, French, Ukrainian, Russian, polacco
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
apim10
raycast10
typescript10
api10
front-end-development10
raycasting10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
javascript9
axios9
localstorage8
unity-game-engine6
vue6
vuetify6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alberto significantly contributed to the Raycast extension for the Finnish dictionary. Their work involved implementing the frontend UI using React and related libraries for displaying search results and handling user interactions. They also worked on integrating with a backend API for fetching dictionary definitions, including handling different language pairs and implementing search history functionality. Furthermore, they were responsible for the underlying data transformation logic and improving the user experience through features like fallback translations.
raycast
albertoxamin/marx-bot
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
Bot di Telegram che sostisuice gli agettivi possessivi sbagliati (dalla prima alla terza persona signolare) a quelli giusti da veri compagno (prima persona plurale)
Contributions:4 reviews, 11 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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