Alessandro Bologna
Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering at Shutterstock
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Bologna is a hands-on technology leader and Vice President of Cloud Infrastructure Engineering with over 25 years of engineering experience and a decade-plus focused on cloud-native platforms. He has repeatedly led large-scale migrations from monoliths to microservices and serverless architectures, architecting resilient systems at Shutterstock, Capital One, Meetup and Time Inc. Proficient across AWS and GCP, he designs event-driven, containerized and IaC solutions using technologies like Kubernetes, ECS, Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB and CloudFormation. Beyond architecture, he mentors engineering teams, driving regulatory-compliant data access, cost-optimized serverless patterns and operational excellence. Known as a polyglot practitioner and principal architect, he blends deep implementation skills (Java, Python, Node) with strategic leadership to turn complex legacy estates into cloud-first platforms. Based in New York, he pairs practical delivery chops with a knack for simplifying architectures in high-traffic, content- and commerce-driven environments.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Università degli Studi di Firenze
English, Italian
Github Skills (114)
aws-serverless10
serverless10
serverless-application-model10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
aws-lambda10
aws-sam10
aws-cloudformation10
debug10
sam10
aws10
transform10
cli9
sink9
python9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alessandrobologna/docker-freezer
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
dev7a/serverless-otlp-forwarder
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Forwards OTLP records serialized to cloudwatch logs to an Open Telemetry collector
Contributions:5 reviews, 163 PRs, 207 pushes in 6 months
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