Lorenzo Alberton
Advisor at Stealth AI Startup
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLorenzo Alberton is a seasoned technology leader and advisor with 23 years of experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms, high-performance web architectures, and engineering organisations. As former CTO of DataSift and SenSat, he built privacy-safe, real-time streaming platforms that processed billions of messages daily and helped bring digital twin geospatial products to major infrastructure projects. He combines hands-on systems programming in Go, PHP, Java, Scala and C/C++ with deep expertise in relational database design (Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, SQLite, Interbase/Firebird) and applied machine learning for NLP and information extraction. Lorenzo is an active open-source contributor (including a PHP client for Kafka) and frequent conference speaker, known for turning research-grade algorithms into production-grade, scalable systems. He mentors founders and early-stage teams (Oxford Foundry) and often focuses on the less-visible levers of engineering success: delivery-focused cross-team coordination, measurable QA/deployment practices, and performance-driven culture.
23 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Online courses Computer Software Engineering, Online courses Computer Software Engineering at UdacityOnline courses, Online courses at Princeton UniversityUniversity of California, IrvineMaster's degree Ingegneria Informatica Computer Science Software Engineering, Master's degree Ingegneria Informatica Computer Science Software Engineering at Politecnico di TorinoOnline courses GIS Mapping and Spatial Analysis Specialization, Online courses GIS Mapping and Spatial Analysis Specialization at University of TorontoOnline courses Arts and Architecture, Online courses Arts and Architecture at Sapienza Università di RomaOnline courses Artificial Intelligence, Online courses Artificial Intelligence at DeepLearning.aiOnline courses Complex Systems, Online courses Complex Systems at University of MichiganOnline courses Behavioral Economics, Online courses Behavioral Economics at Duke UniversityLiceo Classico "Cesare Balbo", Chieri (TO)Online Courses Information Technology, Online Courses Information Technology at EPFLOnline courses Computer Science, Online courses Computer Science at Stanford University
Italian, English
Github Skills (9)
message-bus10
message-handler10
kafka10
php10
messaging10
messagebox10
message-system10
testing10
apache9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kafka-dev/kafka
Jan 2011 - Jul 2011
A distributed publish/subscribe messaging service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Lorenzo primarily worked on implementing a PHP client for the Kafka messaging service. Their contributions include writing PHP code for message handling and testing. They developed bounded byte buffer functionalities for reading and writing messages. Additional commits show modifications to the PHP client including PHPdoc and an Apache 2 license.
golangpublishpublish-subscribeproducermessaging
quipo/dependencysolver
Feb 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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