Alex Tosatto is a seasoned software engineer with 10 years of experience building mobile and backend systems, currently focused on iOS development at Bending Spoons from Noale, Italy. He combines hands-on app development with a strong emphasis on developer experience and maintainability, exemplified by contributions to the popular Katana-Swift framework—adding richer debug descriptions, an action-logging middleware, and tests to improve observability. Prior roles span iOS development at Kwee and PHP backend work, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack background and comfort across languages and architectures. Trained with a Laurea Magistrale in Computer Engineering from the Università degli Studi di Padova, he blends academic rigor with product-driven engineering and a knack for making tooling that helps teams ship safer, faster code.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica, Facoltà di Ingegneria at Università degli Studi di Padova
Swift Apps in a Swoosh! A modern framework for creating iOS apps, inspired by Redux.
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
Contributions:23 commits, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Katana-Swift framework by enhancing the developer experience and improving code maintainability. They implemented `CustomDebugStringConvertible` for actions and async actions, enabling more descriptive logging and debugging. Further contributions included the addition of an action logger middleware with a blacklist, and the creation of example code to demonstrate its usage within a demo app. Additionally, they enhanced testing by adding tests for action descriptions.
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