Alessandro Desantis
Senior Partner at Relay
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Desantis is a senior product and technology leader with 14 years of experience helping consumer brands scale direct-to-consumer channels and optimizing engineering delivery. As Senior Partner at Nebulab he shapes company strategy and go-to-market efforts while advising fast-growing startups like MasterClass, Relay and Jitjatjo on CI/CD, infrastructure and M&A strategy. He pairs hands-on backend engineering—contributing to the popular Solidus eCommerce framework with inventory and promotion improvements—with executive-level experience hiring and leading distributed teams across Europe and the US. His background spans early-stage consulting at Gigster to CTO roles where he defined tech strategy for logistics and marketplace businesses, blending software and operational thinking. Based in Rome, he focuses on people + technology + commerce, driving measurable ROI and reduced operational overhead for mid-market and enterprise clients. Notably, he moves seamlessly between shipping core code and steering business strategy, making him effective at translating technical trade-offs into commercial outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
L.S.S. "Antonio Labriola"
Italian, English, Spanish, polacco
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Github Skills (27)
ruby-rails10
string-concatenation10
ecommerce10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
syntax10
commerce10
spree10
twig10
spreed10
symfony9
php9
doctrine-orm9
recursion9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
solidusio/solidus
Sep 2018 - Jul 2022
🛒 Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:158 reviews, 120 commits, 102 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro contributed significantly to the Solidus eCommerce framework, focusing on core back-end functionalities. Their work involved implementing stock location sorters to optimize inventory allocation and modifying promotion management features to include start and expiration times. The user also addressed compatibility issues with Rails 6 and made various code improvements to enhance the framework's maintainability, including addressing deprecation warnings and refactoring.
ecommercerailssolidusrubyshopping-cart
aldesantis/hertz-twilio
Apr 2016 - Jan 2020
A Hertz courier for sending SMS notifications with Twilio.
Contributions:5 PRs, 48 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 9 months
sms-messagestwiliohertzsmscourier
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