Gabriele Alese

About me

Software engineer with 10+ years of experience, Gabriele started his career in Rome, establishing the digital operations of the respected Europa Editions publisher in the British and American markets. He then moved to London, where he worked on machine learning (Alpha-i) and recruitment technology (RolePoint, Evolve, VONQ) before spending three years in financial services at Saltus, a UK wealth manager, building the platform and integrations behind its advisory business. He's an avid backend developer, with a strong hand in developer operations and frontend technologies.

Python100%
Django95%
AWS85%
Flask75%
GraphQL80%
Terraform75%
Serverless70%
React65%

Some of my projects

py-Clave EPUB API
a prototype implementation of a set of public RESTful APIs meant to enable clients to retrieve metadata and contents from a bunch of digital publications in EPUB2 format.
py-BookBundler
a python Flask webapp to enable publishers to bundle ebooks with paper books, providing that they can upload a picture of a page.
Tweet-a-Book
a webapp to find potentially tweet-able sentences inside an EPUB publication.
pyepub
a MIT-licensed EPUB manipulation library for Python.

Education & experience

2023 - 2026
Back End Developer @ Saltus Partners

Saltus is a UK wealth manager delivering institutional-calibre fund management to private clients. Partnered with business analysts and advisory stakeholders to ship recommendation engines, task handover flows and billing logic across the front-office platform, and designed the supporting microservices (GraphQL APIs, AWS SNS/SQS and Lambda) and integrations with custodian, CRM and document providers. Also built internal AI-assisted tooling to offload routine engineering work.
2020 - 2024
Director @ Beweis

Providing business software development services for domestic and international customers.
2020 - 2023
Senior Software Engineer (Contract) @ VONQ

VONQ is a job-marketing SaaS serving internal workflows and external ATS partners. Led the rebuild of the product catalogue service, migrating a legacy PHP/Symfony codebase to Django backed by a flexible search engine, and co-led a multi-quarter replatforming initiative to realign the stack with the company's domain model as headcount scaled.
Mar - Nov 2020
Senior Software Engineer (Contract) @ Evolve

Evolve is a trust-network hiring platform building a verified candidate-feedback audit trail. Delivered backend feature work across the Django/Vue.js platform, including candidate-profile and feedback-collection flows, and strengthened reliability through better error handling, data validation and deployment hygiene on AWS.
2019 - 2020
Python Developer @ ONELAN

ONELAN builds an enterprise digital-signage CMS, net-top-box players and SoC native screen apps. Developed features and fixes across the CMS, the player firmware integration layer and the native apps (Python 2/3, Tornado, asyncio), and supported the development manager with backlog triage, release planning and incident response.

2017 - 2018
Software Engineer @ Alpha-i

Alpha-i built predictive-maintenance SaaS for wind energy and aeronautics, applying machine learning to reduce downtime. Owned the web API (Flask/SQLAlchemy) and the ML execution environment on Celery, RabbitMQ and Redis, and designed time-series pipelines on InfluxDB and Postgres. Part of the team that won Hack the Wind 2018 and the Rolls-Royce Manufacturing Hackathon.
2016 - 2017
Software Engineer @ RolePoint

RolePoint is an employee-referral platform with ATS middleware integrations. Built and extended integrations with Taleo, Kenexa, Greenhouse, PeopleFluent, Cornerstone and iCIMS, exposed through a unified API, and developed full-stack features and analytics capabilities across the main web application.
2015
Web Developer @ Tangent Snowball

Tangent Snowball is a digital and CRM agency combining data, strategy, technology and creative. Delivered Django applications on AWS for clients including Nails inc, The Labour Party and The National Accident Helpline.
2014 - 2015
Web Developer @ Leto: Digital Innovation Agency

Leto was a digital innovation agency specialising in second-screen apps, safety monitoring systems and behavioural analytics tools. Built web and prototyping projects for clients including Barclays and Accenture.
2009 - 2014
Digital Product Manager @ Edizioni E/O (IT) / Europa Editions (UK/US)

Edizioni E/O is one of the most respected independent Italian publishers. Managed the digital product end-to-end, combining product ownership with hands-on development of the publisher's production tool chain and websites, and oversaw the digital launches of Europa Editions US and Europa Editions UK, founded in late 2011.
2004 - 2008
Studied at La Sapienza, University of Rome

BA in Philosophy