Alessio Biancalana
Principal Software Engineer - Observability at SUSE
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessio Biancalana is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience, currently leading observability efforts at SUSE from Rome. He blends deep open-source passion and OS-level curiosity with full‑stack engineering across Elixir, Rust, Go and JavaScript, having built event-sourced monitoring for SAP systems (Trento) and authored tooling like Photofinish and TLint. Skilled at both backend systems and frontend product delivery, he rewrote Trento’s dashboard using CQRS/ES and created Barbecue, a testing facility that simulates SAP environments for end-to-end validation. A relentless tinkerer and contributor, he has translated critical CouchDB JavaScript tests into Elixir to strengthen database reliability. Practical, systems-minded and detail-focused, he excels at turning complex distributed requirements into resilient, testable software.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Literature Programming, Literature Programming at Liceo Classico Claudio ElianoComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Github Skills (8)
testing10
couchdb10
erlang10
elixir10
test-automation10
database9
databases9
javascript8
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
apache/couchdb
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
Seamless multi-master syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 44 commits, 51 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alessio primarily focused on porting existing JavaScript test suites to the Elixir test suite, demonstrating a focus on testing the CouchDB functionality. They translated tests related to various features, including document management, view queries, and rewrite rules. The contributions include the implementation of test cases for functionalities like large documents, multiple rows, and invalid document IDs, ensuring the reliability and functionality of CouchDB's core features.
nosql-databaseintuitivejson-apierlangnetwork-client
dottorblaster/glare
Dec 2018 - Jan 2022
Simple web dashboard for Siren checks
Contributions:1 review, 516 commits, 416 PRs in 3 years 1 month
elixirnagiossirenchecksdashboard
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