I’m currently living in Dubai where I am employed by Rocket Internet for its venture Namshi, as Head of Development.
I like to play with the Symfony framework, OrientDB, extreme programming and being involved in discussions about (web)architectures design, and I evangelize the REST architectural style.
I love to share my experience and thoughts about agile development with colleagues as much as I like to talk across many events and contribute to some open source projects: the most important of them is doctrine\orientdb-odm, which is a Data Mapper for OrientDB written in PHP, which I started to write in 2011 and got to gain some attention.
If you want to get in touch with me, write a few lines to
alessandro.nadalin@gmail.com.
For curious people, a few other points…
- I was born in Friuli, a godforsaken region of Italy
- Got no sistas or bros
- I was raised in Codroipo, a small town suitable for massive retirements
- believe it or not, I had my first PC when I was 16/17
- I moved to Rome by myself when I was 21
- I’ve been a talended basketball player ( small forward )
- my political credo is some kind of mystery
- I once played the bass at a concert
- my favourite drink is a simple glass of Vodka, with no ice
- back in University times, I started studying Philosophy, then I realized one day I would have needed a real job
- I ran my own company, while younger, with a couple of friends: it was called Ternaria
- I failed at using a kanban board to manage home-related issues
- I
havehad 2 cats, and I am missing my long-time companion Ade, who died in late 2010 - I don’t spontaneously tell my age in conversations
- I’ve a ‘92 ZZR, but I used to have 2 bikes - 3 for a few weeks
- Gimme some drums or a guitar, I still should be able to play something
- with Jacopo, I’ve been part of the Frog crew during Santa Marinella’s 2010/2011 Este24 winter championship
- I’ve changed 6 houses in the last 3 years
- I’m fascinated by indian food and almost everything of that beautiful country, which I visited for a conference
- I love Rome, but I feel like it’s not the right place to raise my (future) children
- I have a personal blog, in italian, called nerdiario (”nerd-diary”)
- In March 2012 I relocated to Dubai
- I’m writing a book
- religiously, I used to be agnostic
- even though I know that I am (mentally) prone to relocations, I’m finding myself pretty well in Dubai
- I absolutely suck at photography, which is probably my dad’s biggest passion nowadays
- I grew up knowing my parents never had a single interaction with the web: now, my mom uses Facebook like a 15yo and my dad entertains a Tumblr blog
- I quit with cigarettes in late 2012
- I’m totally informal
