Alberto Montalesi

Senior Full Stack Developer · 8 years experience

Saigon, Vietnam·contact@montalesi.dev·GitHub·LinkedIn

Self-taught full stack developer building enterprise software at Aquipa with Angular, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Author of The Complete Guide to Modern JavaScript, and builder of independent apps in my free time.

Experience

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Full Stack Angular Developer — Aquipa

2018 – Present

Ranked #323 globally (top 25%) on the Pensero engineering performance benchmark in H1 2026, which measures developer delivery efficiency, code quality, and output across companies using the platform.
Broad ownership over architecture and code decisions across projects, working directly with the CTO on technical direction.
Co-architected and built a booking module used by Sydney Trains, powering 10,000+ bookings.
Built a Grafana dashboard pulling metrics from AWS CloudWatch to monitor internal performance.
Onboarded and configured enterprise clients, including Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM), Metro Trains Sydney (MTS), John Holland, and more.

Skills

Angular · TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Next.js · React · React Native · AWS / CloudWatch · Grafana

Selected Projects

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The Complete Guide to Modern JavaScript

Self-published book · 5th edition

Published in Korean by Hanbit Media and adapted into an interactive Educative course.

1.1k+ GitHub stars Hanbit: 4.8/5 from 47 reviews

Langi.app

Creator

Language-learning platform teaching through short stories; migrated the production database from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

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More independent work, including mobile apps and games, lives on the Projects page.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Law — Università degli Studi dell'Insubria

Italy · 2011 – 2014

Ruby on Rails Bootcamp — CoderSchool

Vietnam · 2017

Intensive full-stack development bootcamp; foundation for moving into professional web development.

Languages

Italian (native) · English (fluent, daily working language)