Leonardo Ascione is a CTO and seasoned full‑stack engineer with 13 years of experience building responsive web apps, APIs and cloud-native services from Rome. He blends UI/interaction design sensibilities with backend and DevOps know‑how—having shipped workflow engines, iOS apps and server APIs while leading Favoloso Team. Comfortable across JS/TS, Node, React and GraphQL, he has contributed TypeScript codegen improvements for React Apollo Hooks to a widely used GraphQL tooling project. His background as a designer-turned-developer gives him a practical knack for turning sketches into polished, usable products, and his hands-on cloud experience spans Heroku and AWS. Known for balancing functional-programming curiosity with pragmatic engineering, he thrives on building useful tools that push current limits.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
1° ciclo - Laurea L, Ingegneria informatica, 109/110, 1° ciclo - Laurea L, Ingegneria informatica, 109/110 at Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
Diploma di maturità scientifica, Piano nazionale informatica, 96/100, Diploma di maturità scientifica, Piano nazionale informatica, 96/100 at Liceo Scientifico Vito Volterra
A tool for generating code based on a GraphQL schema and GraphQL operations (query/mutation/subscription), with flexible support for custom plugins.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Leonardo primarily contributed to the development of a TypeScript-based code generator for GraphQL, specifically focusing on the integration with React Apollo Hooks. Their work involved adding support for generating React Apollo Hooks, including query, mutation, and subscription hooks. The user also implemented the functionality for wildcard imports from `react-apollo-hooks`, and added features to skip React and React Apollo imports.
Contributions:208 commits, 2 PRs, 100 pushes in 1 month
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