Marco Acierno is a Technical Team Lead based in London with 13 years of hands-on full‑stack experience building customer-focused web products using Python (Django) and TypeScript (React/NodeJS). He excels at translating complex business requirements into pragmatic technical solutions by collaborating closely with Product and stakeholders while keeping user experience front and center. Marco has progressed from full-stack roles to leadership at DISCO after senior engineering stints at Pollen and Typeform/VideoAsk, consistently shipping backend and frontend features. He’s an active open-source contributor, notably improving the popular strawberry-graphql Python library with enums, descriptions, and bug fixes, reflecting a penchant for thoughtful API design. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who blends technical depth with clear product judgement.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Perito Informatico, High School Perito Informatico at ITIS G. Dorso
A GraphQL library for Python that leverages type annotations 🍓
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:58 reviews, 32 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Marco primarily contributed to the development of the `strawberry-graphql/strawberry` library by implementing new features and improving existing functionality. Their work includes adding support for enums and descriptions within the library, and fixing several bugs. They also focused on enhancing the codebase by allowing `strawberry.field` to be used as a function.
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