Alberto Montalesi
Senior Full Stack Developer · 8 years experience
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
Full details →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
Full details →The Complete Guide to Modern JavaScript
Self-published book · 5th editionTranslated into Korean by Hanbit Media and turned into a course on Educative. 1.1k+ GitHub stars.
Langi.app
CreatorLanguage-learning platform teaching through short stories; migrated the production database from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
Independent apps & games
Shipped several independent apps and games, including Provato, Baby Book Tracker, valuta, and ARCOLOGY. See the full list.
Education
Ruby on Rails Bootcamp — CoderSchool
Vietnam · 2017Intensive full-stack development bootcamp; foundation for moving into professional web development.
Languages
Italian (native) · English (fluent, daily working language)