Alessandro Balocco
Software Engineer at Meta
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Balocco is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building Android platforms and tooling at Meta from his base in Amsterdam. He has led Android architecture and product delivery across high-impact teams at Uber, Depop, and HERE, combining hands-on coding with cross-functional collaboration and mentorship. Deeply focused on mobile performance and developer productivity, he has shipped platform-level libraries and features that improved scalability, testing, and automation for large teams. An active open-source contributor, he modernized parts of Facebook’s Litho (Kotlin API improvements, MountableComponent conversions) and enhanced popular Android libraries like DialogPlus. Trained as a media engineer with top honors, he brings a designer’s sensibility for UX and a multidisciplinary background in multimedia and virtual experiences. Known for taking ownership and streamlining processes, he balances product-driven thinking with pragmatic engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Media Engineering, Ingegneria del Cinema e dei Mezzi di Comunicazione, 101/110 lode, Bachelor's degree in Media Engineering, Ingegneria del Cinema e dei Mezzi di Comunicazione, 101/110 lode at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, French, Spanish, German
Github Skills (11)
kotlin10
litho10
javas10
android-ui10
dialogs10
dialog10
android10
java10
ui-framework10
ui-design9
accessibility8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
orhanobut/dialogplus
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Advanced dialog solution for android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 14 pushes in 11 days
Contributions summary:Alessandro focused on enhancing the `DialogPlus` library for Android. Their primary contributions include adding the "center" gravity feature to the dialog and implementing margin customization. They also made adjustments to background colors, animation resources, and incorporated review fixes. These changes improved the flexibility and appearance of dialogs within the Android application development context.
dialogandroidkotlinjavabottom-sheet
facebook/litho
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A declarative framework for building efficient UIs on Android.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 commits in 26 days
Contributions summary:Alessandro contributed significantly to the `facebook/litho` repository, focusing on enhancing the Kotlin API and improving the Android UI framework. They added support for features like `duplicateChildrenStates` and `duplicateParentState` in the Kotlin API, which impacts how Litho components handle state. The user also worked on converting existing `MountSpec` components into `MountableComponent` implementations, modernizing the framework's architecture and improving maintainability. Moreover, the user addressed issues related to accessibility and added support for pre and post draw callbacks to implement composable spans.
uisdeclarativeandroid
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