Alessandro Lai

@alessandrolai
Engineering manager @ Facile.it
Milan, Italy
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Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager @ Facile.it, Open Source enthusiast, PHP-FIG Secretary, Milan PHP UG coordinator, computer science passionate, retired netgaming nerd

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Resume

Oct 2021 - Present

Engineering Manager, Facile.it

Jan 2016 - Jun 2017

Senior Backend Developer, Facile.it

Jun 2014 - Jan 2016

Web Developer, Facile.it

Sep 2011 - May 2014

Software Engineer, Leonardo Software House

Portfolio

I wrote a blog post about "Why type hints and interfaces are not visual debt". This spurred quite a discussion! It was a couple of intense twitter threads...

I wrote a blog post about "How to gradually upgrade toward PHPUnit 6 with namespaced classes" in PHP

Excited to start leading a new full remote team at Facile.it!

My 2021 Highlights

I got promoted to the role of Engineering Manager at Facile.it! I hope to lead even more developers in this way, and help build an even bigger and better IT department!

Speaking engagements

Did an internal presentation about "Code reviews - How-to, do & dont's" (slides)

Videos

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Presented a talk at SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2019 (first time abroad!) about "Adding Event Sourcing to an existing PHP project (for the right reasons)" (video)

Presented a talk at PHPDay 2020 (Online) about "Kubernetes for PHP developers" (video)

Presented a talk at SFDay 2020 (Online) about "My Symfony functional testing toolbox" (video)

Presented the talk "My Symfony functional testing toolbox" at Milan PHP User Group (online - video)

Articles and blogs

I've published a lengthy blog post about "Continuous deployment from GitLab CI to Kubernetes using Docker-in-Docker", summarizing all the knowledge that I accumulated in the past months working wit...