Paolo Pialorsi
Senior Developer Advocate
Lombardy, Italy
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Paolo Pialorsi is a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft and a founder-entrepreneur with over two decades of experience architecting Microsoft 365 and Azure enterprise solutions. A Microsoft Certified Solutions Master and long-time Microsoft MVP, he blends authoring for Microsoft Press, international conference speaking, and hands-on open-source contributions to PnP projects that span SPFx, PnP Core SDK, and PowerShell tooling. He routinely builds end-to-end samples—front-end React SPFx components and back-end .NET provisioning and transformation utilities—helping developers adopt modern SharePoint and Teams patterns. Founder of Pialorsi Sistemi and a member of the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community core team, he pairs practical consultancy and training with product-focused advocacy around Microsoft 365 Copilot. Less obvious: his contributions include deep LINQ and JSON mapping work in the PnP Core SDK and pragmatic UI responsiveness fixes across popular community starter kits, showing both low-level API fluency and UX sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Università degli Studi di BresciaMicrosoft Certified Master, SharePoint 2010Liceo Scientifico A. Calini
English
Github Skills (64)
javascript10
spfx10
jquery10
linq10
spf10
sharepoint-framework10
css10
net10
typescript10
responsive-design10
dotnet10
workflow-engine10
user-authentication10
sharepoint10
authentication10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SharePoint/PnP-Partner-Pack
Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
PnP Partner Pack is a starter kit for customers and partners showing how to build typical customizations for SharePoint Online.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:353 commits, 235 PRs, 176 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Paolo contributed to both front-end and back-end aspects of the SharePoint partner pack, starting with initial MVC application development for site provisioning, and extending functionality with JavaScript (JS) link injection for enhancing site and subsite management. Furthermore, the user implemented the view and view models for save site and provisioning template features. The user also refactored the infrastructure project and website to use PnP Core types and made further improvements to the UI.
pnpcustomerspartnersharepointtypical
pnp/PnP-Sites-Core
Aug 2015 - Dec 2020
Microsoft 365 Dev PnP Core component (.NET) targeted for increasing developer productivity with CSOM based solutions.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:991 commits, 452 PRs, 523 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Paolo primarily contributed to the core component (.NET) for increasing developer productivity with CSOM based solutions. Their work involved adding new properties to the ProvisioningTemplate, enabling the TreeView feature in the Navigation object, and updating and modifying the existing ProvisioningTemplate. They also made updates to the docs generator, adding schema version 201705 to it. They showed skills in C# and .NET framework.
dotnetcore-componentpnpdevproductivity
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