Alex Facciorusso
Chief Executive Officer at Solunify Creations
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Facciorusso is a technology leader and hands-on software engineer with 13 years’ experience, currently serving as CEO of Solunify Creations and with a strong background leading Android practice teams at Accenture Song. He brings deep Kotlin expertise—having used the language since its early days—and practical experience across Android, Kotlin Multiplatform, full-stack services, and UX-driven product work. Alex has contributed to the prominent Kotest open-source test framework, improving Android test stability and CI integrations, underscoring his commitment to reliable engineering and test automation. His career spans startup and agency environments where he delivered production mobile apps, platform integrations, and developer tooling for clients like Domino’s and enterprise teams. Based in Stony Stratford, he blends strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering, often rolling up his sleeves on code, tests, and build systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who treats technology to be felt, not seen—prioritizing user outcomes and engineering robustness over flashy surface features.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
I.T.C. "G. Toniolo"Software engineering Information Technology and Technologies for Software Production, Software engineering Information Technology and Technologies for Software Production at Università degli Studi di Bari
Italian, English
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Github Skills (16)
kotlin10
gradle10
robolectric10
gradlew10
test-automation10
testing10
android9
assertion9
property-testing8
material-design6
android-livedata6
kotest6
kotlin-android-extensions6
android-architecture-components6
kotlin-test6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kotest/kotest
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Powerful, elegant and flexible test framework for Kotlin with assertions, property testing and data driven tests.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the testing framework by implementing and fixing tests within the Kotest testing framework. This included adding retries to a null probability test, restoring and refactoring the Robolectric extension build process, and fixing the Robolectric test application and test. The user also updated the Android Gradle plugin and addressed an incompatibility issue. The user's work significantly improved the testing capabilities and stability of the Kotest project.
data-drivendata-driven-testingassertionsdriven-testingproperty-testing
alexfacciorusso/DaggerViewModel
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
An integration Module for injecting Google Architecture Components' ViewModel into Dagger2-injected Android components.
Contributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 6 months
viewmodelarchitecture-componentsandroidandroid-componentsarchitecture
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