Alessandro Strada
Lead Developer at Moltiply Group
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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RockstarAlessandro Strada is a Lead Developer based in Milan with 14 years of hands-on software engineering experience, currently driving technical delivery at Moltiply Group where he has progressed from programmer to leadership since the early 2000s. He combines deep backend systems expertise with practical compiler and filesystem work, contributing to notable open-source projects such as ReScript (enhancing its JS compilation and module loading) and an OCaml-based FUSE Google Drive client that handles shortcuts and team drives. Known for implementing core modules and integrating tooling, he excels at turning low-level complexity—compilers, filesystems, caching—into robust, maintainable components. Alessandro brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to team-leading roles, balancing long-term architecture with incremental, testable improvements. An attention to subtle internals (like JSX v2 PPX integration and data-structure lenses) signals a developer who thrives on solving intricate infrastructure problems that most teams avoid.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (19)
filesystem10
javascript10
fuse10
ocaml10
compiler-design10
build-automation10
rescript10
google-drive-api10
altjs9
data-structure9
makefile9
data-structures9
generics6
google-docs-api6
covariance6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse
May 2012 - Jan 2023
FUSE filesystem over Google Drive
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 releases, 669 commits, 27 PRs in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily worked on implementing and refining core modules for a FUSE filesystem over Google Drive using OCaml. Their contributions included adding lenses to existing data structures, creating modules for application configuration, and introducing features such as the handling of Google Drive shortcuts. The commits demonstrate a focus on building the foundational components necessary for interacting with and caching data from Google Drive, as well as supporting team drives.
fusefatgoogle-driveocamlfuse-filesystem
rescript-lang/rescript
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 19 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alessandro contributed primarily to the back-end compilation and build processes of the ReScript language, focusing on the JavaScript compilation target. Their work involved adding and modifying methods for module loading within the compiler's JavaScript object, specifically enabling the dynamic loading of modules through a JavaScript API. They also modified internal data structures and integrated external tooling for the compilation and packaging of the project. This included the integration of JSX v2 PPX rewriting into the build process, which is essential for the transpilation of ReScript code into JavaScript.
altjscompilerjavascriptrescript
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