Alessandro Cosentino
Member Of Technical Staff at Unitary Foundation
Spain
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Top SchoolAlessandro Cosentino is a versatile software engineer with 15 years of experience building production systems across AI, healthcare, e-commerce and mobile apps, currently contributing to quantum software at the Unitary Foundation. He pairs industry-grade engineering at companies like Amazon and Babylon Health with deep research roots—a PhD in quantum computing and published work in quantum information and optimization. Alessandro has strong data engineering credentials, having designed large-scale ETL and event-driven pipelines on AWS and GCP for high-throughput analytics and A/B testing platforms. He is an active open-source contributor and former Google Summer of Code recipient whose ownCloud feed reader project reached 300+ GitHub stars and top-five placement in the ownCloud app store. Comfortable moving between research and production, he brings both rigorous problem-solving from academia and pragmatic delivery experience from fast-moving product teams. Based in Spain, he uniquely blends quantum research insight with hands-on cloud and data engineering practice.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Università di PisaMaster's degree (exchange) Computer Science, Master's degree (exchange) Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science (Quantum Computing), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science (Quantum Computing) at University of Waterloo
Spanish, English, Italian
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Github Skills (9)
manpage10
user-manual10
sphinx10
documentation10
nextcloud9
rest-api4
api-rest4
restful-api4
api-design4
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
owncloud-archive/documentation
Nov 2012 - Mar 2013
:blue_book: The ownCloud documentation and manual
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily contributed to the documentation of the ownCloud project. Their commits focused on proofreading and correcting existing documentation files, specifically within the user manual, developer manual, and tutorials. They also fixed broken links within the developer documentation, ensuring accurate and accessible information for users and developers. The contributions indicate a focus on improving clarity and accuracy in the project's documentation.
usabilityblueowncloudmanualowncloud-documentation
cosenal/user-scripts
Dec 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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