Alessandro Persano
Chief Executive Officer & Founder at Smau
Apulia, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessandro Persano is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Weave, scaling it from a technical startup to a revenue-generating company with a fourfold increase in turnover after transitioning from CTO to CEO. With 11+ years of hands-on experience and a career rooted in enterprise software, NFC and IoT projects, he has steered Weave through pandemic challenges and secured a second Smart&Start Invitalia funding round of ~€600K. He blends deep technical competence (Oracle/Java, PL/SQL, SAP integrations) with product leadership, delivering AI-driven talent management solutions to corporate and European clients. Based in Apulia, he is active in tech outreach—running hackathons for youth and speaking on IoT—reflecting a commitment to community and talent development. Known for sleepless startup nights and international business development, he pairs pragmatic engineering with entrepreneurial grit and an appetite for travel and continuous exploration of AI.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
ITIS "E.Fermi" - Lecce
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
google-play8
android-application8
prompting8
android-app8
kotlin-android7
android-library7
oracle6
adb6
database6
nim-language6
android6
progress-bar6
kotlin6
statistics6
nfc6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
appersiano/subitostargazers
Feb 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
appersiano/ImageProgressView
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Stop using boring standard progress bar...use progress images! 🖼️
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 5 months
boringstopprogress-barprogressbarnim-language
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