Summary
Alessandro Mazzotti is a Director of Engineering based in Milan with a decade of experience building software and leading teams at Toptal after a long history as a hands-on freelance developer and multiple co-founder roles. He combines strong systems and virtualization chops with practical software engineering skills—particularly in C#, SQL Server and automation—shaped by early sysadmin responsibilities. Comfortable across mobile, web and infrastructure layers, Alessandro translates product needs into maintainable architectures while still contributing code where it matters. His entrepreneurial background demonstrates repeated ability to launch ventures and consult across diverse clients, giving him a pragmatic, business-oriented engineering perspective. Colleagues describe him as technically grounded yet product-focused, able to switch between strategy and implementation. Despite a youthful GitHub persona, his maturity shows in leading engineering organizations and mentoring developers toward scalable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer