Nico Albanese - DX Engineer at Kirimase

Nico Albanese

DX Engineer at Kirimase

London, England, United Kingdom

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Summary

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Nico Albanese is a DX Engineer at Vercel with six years of full‑stack experience building developer tools and AI integrations, currently helping shape the AI SDK used by Next.js developers worldwide. He contributed examples and features to the high-profile vercel/ai repo—adding streaming responses, multi-model compatibility (OpenAI, HuggingFace, AWS Bedrock), and metadata/store support—while also smoothing Vue UI issues and authoring a human-in-the-loop recipe. Based in London, he blends product-minded developer advocacy with hands-on engineering, having moved from Developer Advocate into a DX role this year. Founder of Kirimase, he accelerates Next.js app scaffolding and developer workflows, and earlier experience spans venture investing and founding community events, giving him a rare mix of technical craft, product intuition, and startup ecosystems insight.

6 years of coding experience

15 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at HKUST Business School

Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at Università Bocconi

Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at University of Southern California

Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at The World Bachelor in Business

HS Diploma, HS Diploma at The American School in London

English, Italian

Github Skills (14)

typescript10

javascript10

nextjs10

typescripts10

openai10

vercel10

react10

typescript-types10

streaming9

generative-ai9

huggingface8

anthropic8

svelte7

Programming languages (4)

TypeScriptMDXRustJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

vercel/ai

Nov 2023 - Apr 2025

The AI Toolkit for TypeScript. From the creators of Next.js, the AI SDK is a free open-source library for building AI-powered applications and agents

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:516 reviews, 230 PRs, 263 pushes in 1 year 4 months

Contributions summary:Nico primarily contributed to the AI toolkit's example applications, focusing on Next.js and AI integration. They updated examples for various AI models including OpenAI, HuggingFace, and AWS Bedrock, ensuring compatibility and enabling streaming responses. Furthermore, the user introduced new features like OpenAI's "store" and metadata functionality. The user was also involved in fixing UI issues related to the Vue components and contributed to the "human-in-the-loop" recipe.

anthropicartificial-intelligencegeminigenerative-aigenerative-ui

nicoalbanese/ascension-site-rebrand

Apr 2021 - Nov 2022

Contributions:167 commits, 165 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months

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