Alessandro Segala
Sales Engineer at Vercel
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Alessandro Segala is a seasoned sales engineer and software leader with 14 years of experience building and promoting cloud-native, distributed systems from startups to Microsoft and Vercel. He blends deep hands-on backend engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Dapr and validator.js, improving Azure integrations, authentication, and SDK APIs—with product and GTM roles including product marketing for Visual Studio Code and Azure developer experiences. At Microsoft he led a team creating the Durable Task Scheduler for Azure Functions and helped integrate Dapr into Azure Container Apps, demonstrating both architectural leadership and operational delivery. Comfortable interfacing with engineers and executives, he has driven multimillion-dollar cloud deals as an Azure solutions specialist and translated technical capabilities into clear product narratives. Based in Seattle, he pairs entrepreneurial roots (co-founding a SaaS startup) with rigorous business training from Bocconi and Waterloo, bringing a pragmatic mix of developer empathy and go-to-market craft. A detail that often surprises peers: he moves fluidly between shipping low-level SDK fixes and shaping high-level product positioning, making him equally effective in code reviews and launch plans.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Business Administration and Management General at Università BocconiCampus Abroad Business Administration and Management General, Campus Abroad Business Administration and Management General at Simon Fraser UniversitySummer School International Business, Summer School International Business at LUT UniversityMaster of Business Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET), Master of Business Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) at University of Waterloo
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
url-routing10
javascript10
data-validation10
azure-cosmos-db10
testing10
http10
microservices-application10
microsoft-azure10
regular-expression10
azure-eventhub10
go10
front-end-development10
sanitization10
azure10
nodejs10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
ItalyPaleAle/svelte-spa-router
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Router for SPAs using Svelte 3
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 19 reviews, 228 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily contributed to the example application within the `svelte-spa-router` repository. Their commits focused on creating and modifying routes, including implementing wildcard and parameterized routes, and integrating components to various paths. They also added automated tests using Nightwatch, demonstrating a focus on UI testing and ensuring the router's functionality. Furthermore, they refactored the 'active' action.
routerspassveltesveltekit-adapter
dapr/dapr
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2170 reviews, 284 commits, 518 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro made several contributions to the Dapr project, focused on the HTTP service invocation and actor systems. They implemented fixes for a gRPC-to-HTTP issue, addressed potential data loss issues by modifying stream-based code and refactored HTTP channel code. Their work also included addressing performance issues and resolving potential race conditions in actors-related APIs.
sidecarserverlessruntimeevent-drivenmicroservice
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