Alex Moretti

Staff Software Engineer · Platform & Developer Experience

Milan, Italy

01/Summary

Engineer with 9 years building web platforms end to end — from schema to pixel. Led the migration of a 40k-MAU product to a services architecture, cut p95 latency 74%, and grew a platform team from two to nine. I care about developer experience, honest metrics and shipping fast without breaking things.

02/Experience

Staff Software EngineerMar 2022 – Present

Nordwave — Milan, Italy (hybrid)

•Own the customer-facing analytics dashboard used by 40k monthly active users, shipping weekly behind feature flags

•Led the migration from a legacy PHP monolith to a TypeScript/Node services architecture across 14 services

•Reduced average API response time from 800ms to 210ms with caching, query optimization and connection pooling

•Built the internal design system (react, docs at design.nordwave.io) adopted by five product teams

•Mentored three junior engineers through structured code reviews and weekly pairing sessions

Senior Software EngineerJun 2019 – Feb 2022

Bitfolk Studio — Remote

•Developed e-commerce storefronts and internal tools for a dozen retail clients on Next.js and Shopify

•Introduced automated testing (Playwright + Vitest) which cut production regressions by roughly half

•Worked directly with clients to scope features, negotiate timelines and run quarterly roadmap reviews

•Set up CI/CD on GitHub Actions with preview deployments for every pull request

Research Software EngineerSep 2017 – May 2019

Politecnico di Milano — HPC Lab — Milan, Italy

•Built simulation tooling in Python and C++ for a computational fluid dynamics group

•Published two peer-reviewed papers on parallel mesh partitioning (doi.org/10.1000/xyz123)

•Maintained the lab's Slurm cluster and onboarding documentation

Web Developer2015 – 2017

Freelance — Bologna, Italy

•Delivered twenty marketing sites and web apps for local businesses

•Introduced static site generation and headless CMS setups to small agencies

03/Projects

OpenShelfgithub.com/alexmoretti/openshelf

Open-source home library manager with barcode scanning

•1.2k GitHub stars, 40 contributors

•Built with Next.js, Prisma and PostgreSQL

latency.toolslatency.tools

A tiny site that explains percentile latency with live simulations

•Featured in the Pragmatic Engineer newsletter

04/Education

Politecnico di Milano2016 – 2019

M.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis: Adaptive partitioning of unstructured meshes — graduated with honors (110/110 cum laude)

Università di Bologna2012 – 2015

B.Sc., Computer Science

Erasmus year at TU Delft

05/Skills

Languages & Frameworks

TypeScript · React · Next.js · Node.js · Python · SQL · Go

Infrastructure

PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker · Kubernetes · GCP · Terraform · CI/CD

Practices

System design · Code review · Testing · Observability · Mentoring

06/Publications

•Adaptive mesh partitioning for heterogeneous clusters — Journal of Parallel Computing, 2019

•Cache-aware scheduling for CFD workloads — Proceedings of EuroPar, 2018

07/Speaking

•Monolith to services without a rewrite — Codemotion Milan 2023

•Percentiles lie: measuring latency honestly — Milano JS meetup 2022

08/Additional

Certifications

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect — Google · 2023

Certified Kubernetes Administrator — CNCF · 2022

Languages

Italian (Native) · English (Fluent (C1)) · German (Intermediate (B1))

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Alex Moretti
Full-Stack Software Engineer
alex.moretti@example.com·+39 333 123 4567·Milan, Italy·alexmoretti.dev·linkedin.com/in/alexmoretti
Summary
Software engineer with 6 years of experience building web applications end to end. Comfortable owning features from database schema to pixel-perfect UI.
Experience
Mar 2022 – Present
Staff Software Engineer
Nordwave · Milan, Italy (hybrid)
•Own the customer-facing analytics dashboard used by 40k monthly active users, shipping weekly behind feature flags
•Led the migration from a legacy PHP monolith to a TypeScript/Node services architecture across 14 services
•Reduced average API response time from 800ms to 210ms with caching, query optimization and connection pooling
Jun 2019 – Feb 2022
Senior Software Engineer
Bitfolk Studio · Remote
•Developed e-commerce storefronts and internal tools for a dozen retail clients on Next.js and Shopify
•Introduced automated testing (Playwright + Vitest) which cut production regressions by roughly half
•Worked directly with clients to scope features, negotiate timelines and run quarterly roadmap reviews
Projects
OpenShelfgithub.com/alexmoretti/openshelf
Open-source home library manager with barcode scanning
•1.2k GitHub stars, 40 contributors
Education
2016 – 2019
Politecnico di Milano
M.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering
Thesis: Adaptive partitioning of unstructured meshes — graduated with honors (110/110 cum laude)
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, SQL, Go
Infrastructure
PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, CI/CD
Languages
Italian Native·English Fluent (C1)
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AlexMoretti
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Contact
Email
alex.moretti@example.com
Phone
+39 333 123 4567
Location
Milan, Italy
Site
alexmoretti.dev
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/alexmoretti
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsPythonSQLGo
Infrastructure
PostgreSQLRedisDockerKubernetesGCPTerraformCI/CD
Languages
ItalianNative
EnglishFluent (C1)
Education
Politecnico di Milano
M.Sc. · Computer Science and Engineering
2016 – 2019
Thesis: Adaptive partitioning of unstructured meshes — graduated with honors (110/110 cum laude)
Profile
Software engineer with 6 years of experience building web applications end to end. Comfortable owning features from database schema to pixel-perfect UI.
Experience
Staff Software EngineerMar 2022 – Present
Nordwave · Milan, Italy (hybrid)
•Own the customer-facing analytics dashboard used by 40k monthly active users, shipping weekly behind feature flags
•Led the migration from a legacy PHP monolith to a TypeScript/Node services architecture across 14 services
•Reduced average API response time from 800ms to 210ms with caching, query optimization and connection pooling
Senior Software EngineerJun 2019 – Feb 2022
Bitfolk Studio · Remote
•Developed e-commerce storefronts and internal tools for a dozen retail clients on Next.js and Shopify
•Introduced automated testing (Playwright + Vitest) which cut production regressions by roughly half
•Worked directly with clients to scope features, negotiate timelines and run quarterly roadmap reviews
Projects
OpenShelf · github.com/alexmoretti/openshelf
Open-source home library manager with barcode scanning
•1.2k GitHub stars, 40 contributors
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Alex Moretti
Full-Stack Software Engineer
alex.moretti@example.com · +39 333 123 4567 · Milan, Italy · alexmoretti.dev · linkedin.com/in/alexmoretti
Summary
Software engineer with 6 years of experience building web applications end to end. Comfortable owning features from database schema to pixel-perfect UI.
Experience
Mar 2022
Present
Staff Software Engineer
Nordwave · Milan, Italy (hybrid)
•Own the customer-facing analytics dashboard used by 40k monthly active users, shipping weekly behind feature flags
•Led the migration from a legacy PHP monolith to a TypeScript/Node services architecture across 14 services
•Reduced average API response time from 800ms to 210ms with caching, query optimization and connection pooling
Jun 2019
Feb 2022
Senior Software Engineer
Bitfolk Studio · Remote
•Developed e-commerce storefronts and internal tools for a dozen retail clients on Next.js and Shopify
•Introduced automated testing (Playwright + Vitest) which cut production regressions by roughly half
•Worked directly with clients to scope features, negotiate timelines and run quarterly roadmap reviews
Education
2016
2019
Politecnico di Milano
M.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering
Thesis: Adaptive partitioning of unstructured meshes — graduated with honors (110/110 cum laude)
Projects
OpenShelf
Open-source home library manager with barcode scanning
github.com/alexmoretti/openshelf
•1.2k GitHub stars, 40 contributors
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsPythonSQLGo
Infrastructure
PostgreSQLRedisDockerKubernetesGCPTerraformCI/CD
Additional
Languages
Italian Native · English Fluent (C1)
Timeline
Alex Moretti
Full-Stack Software Engineer
alex.moretti@example.com+39 333 123 4567Milan, Italyalexmoretti.devlinkedin.com/in/alexmoretti
Profile
Software engineer with 6 years of experience building web applications end to end. Comfortable owning features from database schema to pixel-perfect UI.
Experience
Staff Software Engineer
Nordwave · Milan, Italy (hybrid)
Mar 2022 – Present
•Own the customer-facing analytics dashboard used by 40k monthly active users, shipping weekly behind feature flags
•Led the migration from a legacy PHP monolith to a TypeScript/Node services architecture across 14 services
•Reduced average API response time from 800ms to 210ms with caching, query optimization and connection pooling
Senior Software Engineer
Bitfolk Studio · Remote
Jun 2019 – Feb 2022
•Developed e-commerce storefronts and internal tools for a dozen retail clients on Next.js and Shopify
•Introduced automated testing (Playwright + Vitest) which cut production regressions by roughly half
•Worked directly with clients to scope features, negotiate timelines and run quarterly roadmap reviews
Projects
OpenShelfgithub.com/alexmoretti/openshelf
Open-source home library manager with barcode scanning
•1.2k GitHub stars, 40 contributors
Education
Politecnico di Milano
M.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering
2016 – 2019
Thesis: Adaptive partitioning of unstructured meshes — graduated with honors (110/110 cum laude)
Languages
Italian · NativeEnglish · Fluent (C1)
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsPythonSQLGo
Infrastructure
PostgreSQLRedisDockerKubernetesGCPTerraformCI/CD
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