Alessandro D'este
Engineering Group Manager at Klarna
Padua, Veneto, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro D'este is an experienced engineering leader with 11 years of practice building and scaling teams and systems across fintech, insurance, and innovation hubs, currently managing four engineering teams at Klarna. He blends technical product ownership with people leadership—coaching EMs and tech leads while acting as Technical Product Manager to keep teams focused on high-value outcomes. Alessandro has a strong background in migrating monoliths to microservices, event-driven and serverless architectures, and has driven cross-domain automation (notably KYC letter processing) that introduced new technologies into production. His career began in hands-on full-stack and frontend roles, giving him practical depth from UX to cloud-native back ends across Java, Python, Kubernetes and GCP. Comfortable operating in global, fast-paced organizations, he also brings a track record of rapid hiring and onboarding to grow engineering capability.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Social Science, Bachelor of Science Social Science at Università degli Studi di PadovaRagioneria con indirizzo Programmatore, Ragioneria con indirizzo Programmatore at ITCS “A. Gramsci”, Padovaprimary school, primary school at Mameli
Italian, English, German
Github Skills (13)
fitbit6
chrome-extension6
clock4
devtools4
apollo-client4
browser3
javascript3
graphql3
reminder3
react3
apollo3
typescript2
developer-tools1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alessandrodeste/graphql-nodejs-typescript
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
alessandrodeste/react-playground
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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