Alessandro Lacava
Principal Software Engineer at Italiaonline
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessandro Lacava is a Principal Software Engineer based in Milan with over three decades of programming experience and 12 years in senior roles, specializing in scalable architectures using Scala, Java, FP, and both relational and NoSQL databases. He has designed and implemented large advertising and search platforms (notably architecting a major ad platform at Italiaonline and custom Solr components for the Italian Yellow Pages) and routinely bridges FP and OOP to choose the best tool for each problem. A coauthor of Professional Scala and a prolific technical writer in Italian and international outlets, he combines deep static-typing discipline with pragmatic use of dynamic typing when appropriate. His background ranges from CTO/co-founder responsibilities building consumer-facing booking systems to hands-on consultancy across dozens of languages and systems, reflecting a rare breadth from low-level C/Pro*C and PL/SQL to modern distributed systems with Kafka and MongoDB. Less obvious: he started coding in 1989 in Pascal and has continuously evolved his craft, favoring equational reasoning and formal thinking even when shipping production systems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree, Telecommunications Engineering, 109/110, Engineer's Degree, Telecommunications Engineering, 109/110 at Università degli Studi 'Mediterranea' di Reggio CalabriaHigh School Diploma, Computer Science, Economics, Law, 52/60, High School Diploma, Computer Science, Economics, Law, 52/60 at I.T.C. Galileo Ferraris - Reggio Calabria
Italian, English
Github Skills (43)
reflection10
integrations10
scala10
typesafe10
generic-programming10
functional-programming10
database10
dsl9
asynchronous9
java9
object-oriented-programming9
jdbc9
hocon9
sequencing9
effects9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lambdista/try
May 2014 - Jul 2015
Implementation of the Try-Success-Failure Scala API for Java
Contributions:4 releases, 87 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 1 month
javascala
lambdista/cats
Nov 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
modularfunctional-programmingextensible
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