Alice Cayla
Senior Software Engineer at Depop
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlice Cayla is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with roughly a decade of experience building reliable backend systems across e-commerce, publishing, and research organizations. She has progressed from academic research and Drupal-based projects to production engineering at Ocado, Springer Nature, Wellcome Trust, and now Depop, bringing strong expertise in Scala, Java, databases, and integration pipelines. Her work spans API design, content ingestion and enrichment, warehouse automation interfaces, and CI/CD-driven deployments, showing a consistent focus on data quality and discoverability. Alice combines deep technical foundation—earned with top honors in computer engineering—with practical experience shipping services that bridge domain ontologies, search engines, and operational systems. Colleagues value her for turning complex, domain-specific requirements into maintainable systems and for her fluency across both legacy and modern stacks. A subtle differentiator: she pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on production delivery, which helps her translate research-style problem solving into scalable engineering outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
First level degree, Computer engineering, 100 cum laude / 110, First level degree, Computer engineering, 100 cum laude / 110 at Università degli Studi di FirenzeHigh School Graduation Certificate, Linguistic, 92 / 100, High School Graduation Certificate, Linguistic, 92 / 100 at Liceo linguistico Gino Capponi di Firenze
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (63)
circe10
non-blocking10
data-collection10
digital-preservation10
http10
blocking10
scala10
pipeline10
collections10
reactive-streams10
elasticsearch10
rest-api10
resumable10
data-science9
reactive9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wellcomecollection/sierra-streams-source
Nov 2017 - May 2020
A library for providing Akka Streams from objects in a Sierra API
Contributions:1 release, 11 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 5 months
apistreamsakka-streamsscalasierra
alicefuzier/elastic4s
Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
Elasticsearch Scala Client - Non Blocking, Type Safe, Reactive HTTP Client
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
non-blockinghttp-clienttype-safescalablocking
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