Alessandro Bahgat is a seasoned engineering leader with 19 years of experience building consumer-facing products and scaling high-performing teams, now leading Consumer Experience Software at Quilt from Redwood City. He spent a decade at Google driving travel products—from launching Direct Booking and Flight emission labels to creating the widely adopted Travel Impact Model—combining strong technical ownership with product strategy and partner engagement. Hands-on across backend and frontend, he has contributed to notable open-source projects like Twitter4J and improved UX in HugoBlox, reflecting a blend of solid systems engineering and attention to user-facing details. A practical builder who moves ideas to launch rapidly (often delivering MVPs in months), he also brings cross-functional leadership, mentoring, and an international perspective as an Italian technologist based in the Bay Area.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Twitter4J is an open-source Java library for the Twitter API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro contributed to the Twitter4J library, specifically adding support for SSL versions of user profile images and implementing the account settings API endpoint. They also addressed a critical bug by removing an infinite recursive loop within the logging framework. Furthermore, the user fixed minor typos and modified methods to handle potential 404 errors, enhancing the library's stability and functionality.
🚨 GROW YOUR AUDIENCE WITH HUGOBLOX! 🚀 HugoBlox is an easy, fast no-code website builder for researchers, entrepreneurs, data scientists, and developers. Build stunning sites in minutes. 适合研究人员、企业家、数据科学家和开发者的简单快速无代码网站构建器。用拖放功能、可定制模板和内置SEO工具快速创建精美网站!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 37 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the user experience within the HugoBlox builder. Their contributions included addressing issues related to scrolling behavior, HTML validation, and the display of comment counts on specific page types. The user also removed unnecessary search query parameters and streamlined the search functionality within the application. These changes involved modifying Javascript and HTML/template files to optimize the website's behavior and improve its overall usability.
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Alessandro Bahgat - Director Of Consumer Experience Software at Quilt