Alessandro Castellani
Director, Desktop And Mobile Apps - Thunderbird at YouTube
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlessandro Castellani is a product and engineering leader with 11+ years of hands-on experience building cross-platform apps, web products, and design systems, currently directing Desktop and Mobile Apps for Thunderbird at Mozilla. He blends senior full‑stack development (PHP, Vue, Laravel, Cordova) with strong product and UX leadership—shaping roadmap, brand design, and core engineering teams. A prolific creator and educator, he runs a popular YouTube channel with 50K subscribers and 4M+ views and publishes practical open-source tutorials like WordPress101 and a plugin series. Comfortable moving between native Linux UI work (Vala/GTK) and cloud/LAMP stacks, he brings rare breadth across code, visual design, audio/video production, and product strategy. Known for pairing meticulous front-end execution with a creative, maker mindset, he thrives on tackling cross-disciplinary problems and shipping polished user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Digital and Virtual Design, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Digital and Virtual Design at Istituto Europeo di Design
Italian, English
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Github Skills (16)
plugin-development10
theme-development10
css10
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
gtk10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
html9
back-end-development8
gulp7
sass5
automation4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Alecaddd/WordPress101
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
Public Repository for the tutorial series "Wordpress 101 for beginner develoeprs"
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alessandro contributed to the development of a WordPress theme, making changes to the style, functions, header, footer, and index files. They updated the theme's CSS, added JavaScript functionality, and implemented custom page templates. Their work included adding features for primary and secondary navigation, as well as incorporating custom header images and post formats.
wordpress
akiraux/Akira
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Native Linux App for UI and UX Design built in Vala and GTK
Role in this project:UI Designer & Front-end Developer
UI Designer & Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 169 reviews, 488 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on UI development within the project, specifically for the native Linux app, "Akira". They contributed to the implementation of the UI components and added a series of widgets, including a header bar and a toolbar. The user also took on UI elements for creating the general layout of the app using the Gtk framework.
gtklinuxuser-experienceux-designdesign
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