# Gabriele Alese London, UK · gabriele@alese.it · [alese.it](https://www.alese.it) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielealese/) · [GitHub](https://github.com/gabalese) Backend-focused software engineer with 10+ years building scalable Python/Django platforms on AWS. Track record of leading platform re-architectures, designing event-driven microservices, and partnering with business stakeholders to turn ambiguous requirements into shipped software in fintech, HR-tech, and SaaS. ## Experience ### Back End Developer — Saltus Partners, London (Mar 2023 – Jul 2026) UK wealth manager delivering institutional-calibre fund management to private clients. - Partnered with BAs and advisory stakeholders to define and ship new recommendation engines, task handover flows, and billing logic across the front-office platform, translating ambiguous business rules into reliable, testable behaviour. - Designed and shipped supporting microservices integrated via GraphQL APIs and AWS event-driven services (SNS/SQS, Lambda), replacing manual processes previously handled by advisors and operations. - Worked directly with operations and advisory teams to design and own integrations with custodian, CRM, and document providers, ensuring consistent data flows across the business. - Hardened advisor-facing workflows with stronger validation, automation, and error handling across the Django/Graphene API and React front-end, reducing day-to-day support escalations. - Built internal AI-assisted tooling to offload routine engineering work: cross-provider data gathering for investigations, triage support for incoming issues, and automated draft fixes for low-complexity Jira tickets. Tech: Python 3, Django, Graphene/GraphQL, React, Postgres, AWS (Lambda, SNS/SQS, ECS), Terraform, Serverless. ### Director — Beweis, London (2020 – 2024) Providing business software development services for domestic and international customers. ### Senior Software Engineer (Contract) — VONQ, Rotterdam, NL (Oct 2020 – Mar 2023) 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 a Django application backed by a flexible search engine, improving query performance and unblocking the partner-facing API roadmap. - Co-led a multi-quarter replatforming initiative with a small team to realign the technology stack with the company's domain model as headcount scaled. Defined service boundaries, drove architectural decisions, and shepherded incremental migration. - Acted as a senior technical voice across cross-functional teams during a period of rapid growth, contributing to hiring, code review standards, and onboarding of new engineers. Tech: Python 3, Django, PHP/Symfony, GraphQL, React, Vue.js, Postgres, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, ECS, Kubernetes. ### Senior Software Engineer (Contract) — Evolve, London (Mar 2020 – Nov 2020) 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. - Strengthened platform reliability through improved error handling, data validation, and deployment hygiene on AWS. Tech: Python 3, Django, Vue.js, Postgres, AWS. ### Python Developer — ONELAN, Reading (Apr 2019 – Mar 2020) Enterprise digital-signage CMS, net-top-box players, and SoC native screen apps. - Developed features and fixes across the CMS, player firmware integration layer, and SoC native apps, working across Python 2/3, Tornado, and asyncio. - Supported the development manager in triaging the backlog and unblocking the wider team, contributing to release planning and incident response. Tech: Python 2/3, Tornado, asyncio, Postgres, JavaScript, Angular.js. ### Software Engineer — Alpha-i, London (Oct 2017 – Nov 2018) Predictive-maintenance SaaS for wind energy and aeronautics, applying ML to reduce downtime. - Owned the SaaS web API (Python 3 / Flask / SQLAlchemy) and the ML algorithm execution environment running on Celery, RabbitMQ, and Redis. - Designed time-series ingestion and serving pipelines integrating InfluxDB and Postgres with asyncio workers on Azure. - Hackathon wins (2018): part of the Alpha-i team that won the InnoEnergy/WindEurope Hack the Wind 2018 at the Global Wind Summit in Hamburg, and the Rolls-Royce Manufacturing Hackathon, judged best at modelling fine-adjustment inspection workflows for automated decision-making. Tech: Python 3, Flask, SQLAlchemy, TensorFlow, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, InfluxDB, asyncio, Azure, CircleCI. ### Software Engineer — RolePoint, London (Jan 2016 – Sep 2017) Employee-referral platform with ATS middleware integrations. - Built and extended ATS integrations including Taleo, Kenexa, Greenhouse, PeopleFluent, Cornerstone, and iCIMS, exposing them through a unified API. - Developed full-stack features across the main web application and improved metrics and analytics capabilities. Tech: Python, asyncio, Deis, AWS, Google App Engine / GCP, CoffeeScript, CircleCI. ### Web Developer — Tangent Snowball, London (Feb 2015 – Dec 2015) Digital and CRM agency combining data, strategy, and creative. - Delivered Django applications on AWS for clients including Nailsinc, The Labour Party, and The National Accident Helpline. Tech: Python, Django, Solr, AWS, Docker, Travis CI. ### Web Developer — Letolab, London (Jun 2014 – Jan 2015) Digital innovation agency: second-screen apps, safety monitoring, behavioural analytics. - Built web and prototyping projects for clients including Barclays and Accenture. Tech: Python, Django, Tornado, AngularJS, Vagrant, Puppet, Ansible, Travis CI. ### Digital Product Manager — Edizioni E/O, Rome, Italy (Dec 2009 – May 2014) Independent publisher; oversaw digital launches for Europa Editions (US) and Europa UK. - Managed the digital product end-to-end, combining product ownership with hands-on web development of the publisher's production tool chain and websites, and liaison with digital distribution platforms. Tech: PHP, Python, WordPress, MySQL, Heroku, jQuery. ## Skills - **Core (current, daily):** Python 3, Django, GraphQL (Graphene), Postgres, AWS (Lambda, SNS/SQS, ECS), Terraform, Docker, React, Celery. - **Strong:** Flask, Redis, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Ansible, Serverless, asyncio, SQLAlchemy. - **Leadership:** Platform re-architecture, service decomposition, code review, technical decision-making, cross-team collaboration. - **Familiar / historical:** Kubernetes, Scala, Golang, PHP/Symfony, Vue.js, Tornado, Angular.js, CoffeeScript, Solr, InfluxDB, Azure, GCP. ## Education - **BA Philosophy** — Università La Sapienza, Rome (Feb 2008) ## Publications - 2015 — *Rete, cultura e dissenso* (Web, culture and dissent, co-author), in *Noetica vs informatica. Le nuove strutture della comunicazione scientifica*, ed. F. Sabba, Firenze, Olschki, pp. 113–129. ISBN 978-88-222-6367-4. - 2011 — *La lettura digitale e il web* (Web and digital reading, co-author), Ledizioni. ISBN 978-88-95994-86-4. ## Music Gabriele also writes and records music, available on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/3BkFvZE8sbj3KymWtzlfR2), [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/gabriele-alese) and other streaming platforms. Recent albums: *All the Lonely People*, *The Summer that Melted Everything*, *The Island (Carloforte Suite)*, *Songs to remember by*, *Una stupida canzone per l'estate*, *HAZME TRANSFERENCIAS*, *Aspetta Primavera*, *Isolated Planetary-Mass Objects*, *Songs of the Spare Bedroom*.