Alessandro Lai
Head Of Platform
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessandro Lai is a seasoned software leader with 12 years of experience, currently Head of Platform at Facile.it where he oversees four teams and drives platform and payments initiatives. A hands-on backend engineer rooted in enterprise PHP and Symfony, he has authored multiple internal backend projects and a company-wide payments system. He is an active open-source contributor to high-profile PHP projects—contributions include Sentry’s Symfony SDK, Doctrine ORM, Composer and Psalm—demonstrating attention to stability, testing and cross-version compatibility. Formerly a team lead and engineering manager, he blends people management with deep technical ownership and a taste for test automation and CI/CD improvements. Off the clock he still identifies as a computer-science enthusiast and self-described “retired netgaming nerd,” hinting at a long-standing DIY curiosity that fuels his tooling and OSS work.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Liceo Classico, Diploma Liceo Classico at Liceo G.M.DettoriLaurea Specialistica in scienze e tecnologie informatiche Tecnologie informatiche, Laurea Specialistica in scienze e tecnologie informatiche Tecnologie informatiche at Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Italian, English
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Github Skills (63)
dependency-manager10
unit-testing10
xlsx10
code-optimization10
type-inference10
static-analysis10
sentry10
mstest10
package-management10
symfony-bundle10
testing10
spreadsheet10
travis-ci10
bundle10
teste10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-symfony
May 2016 - Oct 2022
The official Symfony SDK for Sentry (sentry.io)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 244 reviews, 458 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily contributed to the official Symfony SDK for Sentry, focusing on backend-related tasks. Their work included implementing a new listener method to intercept users, fixing property naming issues, and preparing and releasing different versions of the Symfony bundle. They also backported changes to older branches, demonstrating a focus on stability and maintaining compatibility.
sentrysymfonyphpsymfony-bundlebundle
getsentry/sentry-php
May 2017 - Sep 2022
The official PHP SDK for Sentry (sentry.io)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 160 reviews, 121 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on improving the build process and testing infrastructure for the Sentry PHP SDK. Their contributions include removing dependencies like `uopz`, updating PHPUnit, and migrating tests to namespaced classes. They also streamlined the Travis CI build matrix, optimized composer usage, and addressed code style issues by enforcing PSR-4, Symfony, and Symfony:risky code style rules.
phpsentryerror-monitoringerror-handlercrash-reporting
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