Alexej Tessaro
Principal Platform Engineer
London, England, Italy
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Top SchoolAlexej Tessaro is a Principal Platform Engineer with 11 years building and operating distributed systems across retail, networking, gaming and payments, currently shaping Linkerd service mesh and edge/CDN tooling at Depop. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Erlang/OTP and modern cloud-native stacks (Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS) with a component-based, test- and security-first approach to delivery. At Depop he has led multi-region AWS migrations, cost-control and SRE incident frameworks, while mentoring and growing platform teams and driving upstream contributions to CI and Terraform ecosystems. His background includes low-latency, multi-node Erlang architectures and production QuickCheck-driven testing, which informs pragmatic reliability practices in cloud environments. Comfortable operating across the full lifecycle from conception to release, he prefers collaborative, measurable processes that balance engineering craft with business value.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at LIACS Leiden UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Padua - Faculty of ScienceCertificate of Secondary Education General Computer Science, Certificate of Secondary Education General Computer Science at Italy, Padua, Institute of Technical Education ITIS “Francesco Severi”
English, Russian, Italian
Github Skills (143)
xctest10
graph10
botocore10
vpn-client9
mws9
android-apps9
xcuitest9
terraform9
ruby9
low-level9
automation9
ios9
terraform-provider9
concourse9
software-quality9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
depop/truss-aws-tools
Jan 2021 - Jun 2023
Assortment of AWS Lambda functions and CLI based tools for working with AWS.
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
clilambda-functionsserverlessaws-lambdaaws
curoo/expend-python-commons
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:14 PRs, 9 pushes, 20 comments in 4 months
python
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