Alessandro Balasco
Engineering Team Lead at Wolt
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Balasco is a hands-on engineering leader and software architect with over 14 years of professional experience and a 20+ year technical background, currently leading engineering at Wolt from Berlin. He specializes in backend development and designing scalable distributed systems, with deep practical experience building Golang microservices, Kubernetes-based deployments, and observability with OpenTelemetry. Alessandro has scaled production services (e.g., a Threat Protection tool at Nord Security from 10 to 500 req/s while keeping latency under 100ms), led cross-functional teams of up to 10 engineers, and served as CTO at Nestpick. He combines a DevOps mindset with agile practices to mentor and grow engineering teams, hire effectively (50+ interviews at Nord), and translate product vision into robust roadmaps. His career spans startups and scaleups across e-commerce, IoT, ad-tech and security, and he brings uncommon breadth—from building payment APIs at Rocket Internet to predictive solar monitoring systems—alongside a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable systems.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Maturità scientifica, Diploma Maturità scientifica at Liceo Scientifico A. Avogadro, RomaLaurea Economia e Commercio, Laurea Economia e Commercio at Sapienza Università di Roma
English, German, Italian
Github Skills (77)
phpredis10
laravel10
php10
driver10
vanilla-javascript9
redis9
predis9
laravel-framework9
animatecss9
redistimeseries8
scrolling8
redisearch8
mysql-backup7
timeseries-database7
pdo7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
palicao/exercism-go
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:58 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
palicao/phpRedisTimeSeries
Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
📈 Use Redis Time Series in PHP!
Contributions:6 releases, 35 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 9 months
redisphptimeseries-databaseredis-searchredisearch
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