Alvise Spanò
Researcher, Professor And Developer at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolAlvise Spanò is a researcher, professor and developer at Ca' Foscari University of Venice who bridges deep academic work in type systems and compilers with 15+ years of industrial software engineering across functional and imperative languages. He designs languages and tools—most notably the experimental functional language Lw—and has released prominent open-source projects like Polygen, a meta-programmable grammar-based text generator known for its surprising outputs. His background spans low-level assembly and realtime graphics from the Amiga demoscene to modern concurrent and mobile architectures, giving him rare competence across machine-level optimization and high-level language design. A PhD in Computer Science and a history of building static analyzers and language tooling reflect his focus on practical verification, advanced polymorphism, and developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
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Github Skills (6)
sentence-generator10
lego-mindstorms-ev310
reentrancy7
android7
smart-contracts4
grammars3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alvisespano/FSharp.Common
Nov 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
alvisespano/FunctionalLanguages-UniPD
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Functional Languages course for University of Padova
Contributions:51 commits, 51 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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