Alessandro Tagliapietra
Chief Technology Officer at Plant9
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlessandro Tagliapietra is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer with 13 years of experience building developer-friendly software and interactive data visualization products from Las Vegas. He leads engineering at Plant9 and VISup, designing high-resolution imaging, sports event tracking, and custom analytics dashboards while championing simplicity, continuous delivery, and iterative improvement. Equally comfortable in DevOps and front-end work, he has contributed to well-known open-source projects like Homebrew and Middleman—adding packaging and asset handling improvements that increase compatibility and performance. Open to new languages and tools that boost productivity, he combines pragmatic architecture with meticulous, readable code and a passion for turning information assets into clear, engaging user experiences.
13 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (32)
git10
formula10
package-management10
static-site-generator10
homebrew10
front-end-development10
formulas10
mysql9
javascript9
serialization9
css9
symfony9
sql9
go9
doctrine-orm9
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Oct 2012 - Sep 2015
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 15 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on updating and maintaining Homebrew formulas for various software packages. This included updating versions, adjusting build configurations, and incorporating dependencies to ensure compatibility and correct functionality. The user also created new formulas for tools like rancher-compose. Their contributions were essential for keeping the software packages within the Homebrew ecosystem up-to-date and available for users.
macoshomebrew
middleman/middleman
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Hand-crafted frontend development
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 16 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alessandro's primary contributions focused on enhancing the asset handling capabilities within the Middleman static site generator. They added support for the Woff2 font format across various extensions, including asset hashing, builder asset order, and relative assets. Furthermore, the user modified the CLI functionality to clone templates, accommodating both full repository URLs and SSH 'git@' URLs. These changes improved the generator's compatibility and flexibility.
reactmiddlemanfrontend-developmentstatic-site-generationfrontend
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