Summary
Alessandro Valcepina is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and architecting backend and cloud-native systems, currently contributing to CircleCI’s Deploy & Release team after Vamp’s acquisition. He has deep expertise in JVM and polyglot environments—Scala, Java, Go and Python—applied to deployment tooling, routing, and large-scale ecommerce and telemetry pipelines using Kubernetes, Istio, Akka and Hazelcast. Comfortable in teams ranging from small startups to 50-person projects, he blends practical engineering with calm client-facing communication and a collaborative, helpful mindset. A self-directed learner who picks up new technologies independently, he has repeatedly taken roles that bridge architecture and implementation across cloud platforms like GKE and Azure. Based in Haarlem, he brings both longform enterprise experience and startup velocity to solve resilient deployment and release challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
First Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science, 105/110, First Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science, 105/110 at Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca
English, Italian, French