Alessandro Cinelli
Engineering Manager - Infrastructure at Samsara
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Cinelli is an engineering manager with ~15–20 years of experience building web platforms, developer tools and high-performing teams across startups and large enterprises. Currently leading infrastructure engineering at Samsara after shaping Developer Experience and Core Infra at DAZN and Spotify, he blends hands-on backend and ops expertise (from Unix sysadmin to Go, Node, Java and PHP) with a proven ability to scale distributed teams. He has repeatedly improved developer productivity and platform golden paths for hundreds of engineers, while championing inclusive, healthy cultures and measurable engineering excellence. An active community organiser and speaker (around 40 talks) and early open-source security contributor (notably hardening the popular namshi/jose PHP JOSE library), he brings pragmatic security and reliability instincts to platform work. Known for turning operational knowledge into developer-facing products, he thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, DX and people leadership.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Università degli Studi di VeronaDiploma, foreign languages, Diploma, foreign languages at Liceo Scientifico A Calini
French, English, Italian
Stackoverflow
902reputation
73kreached
4answers
4questions
phpunit
top-5%
eclipse
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Github Skills (15)
php10
json-web-signature10
hmac10
security10
phpunit9
openssl9
eclipse9
unit-testing8
jenkins6
datadog6
nginx6
api6
javascript6
symfony6
jenkins-pipeline6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
namshi/jose
Jul 2013 - Jan 2016
JSON Object Signing and Encryption library for PHP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:48 commits, 47 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on enhancing the security and stability of the PHP-based library. Their contributions include preventing timing attacks in HMAC verification by using PHP 5.6 native functions and a timing-safe comparison function. Additionally, the user addressed potential vulnerabilities by handling cases where public keys are empty or invalid, and corrected errors in HMAC invocations. Furthermore, the user added support for PHP7, fixing issues related to the use of the library with the updated PHP version.
encryptionphp
cirpo/hubot-save-links
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:83 commits, 36 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 month
persisthubothubot-scriptlinks
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