Alessandro Manno is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems and developer tooling from Milan. As Tech Lead Cloud Engineer at Facile.it and founder of RaDi and COSMAN, he blends hands-on DevOps, backend engineering, and product leadership to automate repeatable processes and improve operational efficiency. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Backstage—enhancing the GitLab catalog backend to better handle forks and archived repositories—demonstrating attention to robust integrations and test coverage. Comfortable across the full stack, Alessandro favors pragmatic, automatable solutions that scale and reduce toil. His background spans startups and established product teams, bringing both executional discipline and an entrepreneurial mindset to platform and developer-experience challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale Ingegneria informatica, Laurea triennale Ingegneria informatica at Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on enhancing the GitLab catalog backend module within the Backstage framework. Their work involved adding features to skip forked repositories, refining linting, and incorporating configuration options. They also implemented tests to ensure the correct filtering of projects and fixed issues related to archived project handling.
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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