Alessio Castrica
Italy
Summary
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RockstarAlessio Castrica is a Senior Software Engineer based in Rome with six years of experience building backend systems for fintech and trading platforms. He has moved from consulting and energy trading analytics into hands-on engineering roles at Alpaca, InvestSuite and Abraxas before joining Qonto, bringing a blend of domain knowledge in finance and practical API and Python client contributions. Comfortable troubleshooting complex integrations, he has worked across product, engineering and operations to deliver reliable solutions and improve developer-facing docs and tooling. Alessio pairs strong quantitative training—including an MBA in Quantitative Finance and a Master's in Data Analytics—with a pragmatic approach to clean, maintainable code that scales in production.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (75)
fastapi10
python10
json-schema10
databases10
http10
swagger10
asgi10
gorilla10
opentelemetry10
webserver10
rest-api10
pydantic10
openapi10
middleware10
async10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Ale-Cas/optitrader
Jul 2023 - May 2025
Optitrader is an open-source Python repository for portfolio optimization and quantitative finance, with embedded trading support using Alpaca's Trading API.
Contributions:6 releases, 22 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 9 months
pythontrading
Ale-Cas/alpaca-py
Sep 2022 - Dec 2023
The Official Python SDK for Alpaca API
Contributions:13 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
apipythonsdkalpaca-apisdk-python
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