Alessandro Rizzo
Senior Software Engineer at Shopfully
Valdagno, Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessandro Rizzo is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building high-traffic, performance-oriented backend systems, currently driving backend development at Shopfully. A longtime Ruby on Rails specialist and former co-founder and lead backend engineer at UALA, he excels at scalable architecture, caching strategies (Redis, Varnish, PostgreSQL) and ensuring near-100% uptime through proactive monitoring and automation. He favors simple, elegant APIs with full test coverage and a pragmatic focus on the right solution rather than any solution. Colleagues know him as a fast learner and proactive problem-solver who often takes initiative to improve project health and operational resilience. Based in Valdagno, Italy, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with hands-on delivery across startups and growth-stage teams, consistently optimizing performance and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea breve in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, Laurea breve in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES at Università di TrentoInformatica, Scienze della comunicazione e dell'informazione, Informatica, Scienze della comunicazione e dell'informazione at ITI V.E. Marzotto
Italian, English
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Github Skills (98)
messaging10
lorawan10
broker10
cors10
coap10
mqtt-protocol10
m2m10
emqx10
middleware9
message-queue9
lwm2m9
iiot9
erlang9
pubsub9
html8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
arizz96/event-api
May 2018 - Jun 2020
Event ingestion REST API for the Astronomer Platform
Contributions:13 PRs, 17 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 1 month
apiastronomerrestrest-apiastronomer-platform
arizz96/arizz96-dev
Jan 2021 - Oct 2024
A delightful representation of my portfolio
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 10 months
myself
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