Alessandro Piras
Software Engineer at Pocket Change Inc.
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Piras is a versatile software engineer with 17 years of experience bridging embedded systems, cross-platform applications and web services, currently building kiosks, mobile apps and embedded firmware at Pocket Change in Tokyo. A University of Pisa summa cum laude graduate who researched communication mechanisms for multi-core architectures, he moves easily between Rust, Flutter, Python, C++ and Lisp—bringing functional programming sensibilities to pragmatic product work. His background includes accessible AAC device software, component-based platforms developed with Honda Research Institute EU, and VOIP/mobile projects, reflecting strong systems design and integration skills. Comfortable on both low-level and application layers, he emphasizes extensibility and scriptability in products and has a long-standing interest in Lisps and APL that shapes his approach to expressive, maintainable code.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Università di Pisa
Github Skills (126)
digital-signage10
vim10
spacemacs10
emacs10
emacs-lsp9
emacs-lisp9
cider9
melpa8
text-template8
embedded7
clojure7
caliburn-micro7
flutter7
libphonenumber7
ride7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
laynor/trayion
Jan 2011 - Mar 2013
Contributions:44 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
notionconfigurablesortingiconhiding
laynor/dotfiles-new
May 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 3 months
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