Profile

IT architect/developer with a strong background in telecomunications and an authentic passion for innovation. I'm looking for positions about novel IT paradigms, applications and services.

I strongly believe in learning and experimenting as means to find better solutions. I strive to seamlessly integrate myself in all workflows (working solo, within a team or as team leader) and to adapt promptly to dynamic situations. I am willing and motivated to work abroad for extended periods of time.

Skills

IT architectures and development

Good knowledge of web services development and SOA methodologies. Particular interest in efficiency, scalability, availability and security issues.

Academic interests

Delay-tolerant networking, publish-subscribe, semantic web, interoperability, distributed and fault-tolerant systems; multimedia signal compression and filtering; user interfaces and information visualization; machine learning and data mining.

Teamworking

Good experience managing and working in team, especially in multicultural environments. Great attention to teamwork scheduling, quality assurance and deadline meeting.

System proficiency

Programming languages — C, C++, Java, Ruby, PHP, HTML/CSS/Javascript, SQL

Frameworks/platforms — POSIX, .NET, J2SE, LLVM, Apache, Rails, xulrunner, WordPress

Applications — Adobe Creative Suite (Ps, Il, Pr), Wireshark, NS2, Git

Additional knowledge include DSLs (Avisynth, Matlab), computer and network hardware assembly, embedded development on microcontrollers, RF and electronics test equipment.

Experience

Blue Reply, Turin, Italy

Consultant, ICT architect July 2011—present

ICT architect at Fiat/Chrysler group

  • EAI solution architect on MOM platforms (IBM WebSphere, Mulesoft Mule ESB).
  • IT architecture and go-live support of a Siemens SIT-based MES solution for the new Fiat Kragujevac plant (Serbia). Development (as a side-project) of a GUI tool to monitor the new MOM infrastructure.
  • Performance troubleshooting and tuning of Microsoft SQL Server-based applications.

Strayorange, Turin, Italy

Co-founder, project manager, web architect 2007—2010

Freelance creative group I co-founded in 2007. In two years time we grown from working for small local businesses to international clients.

  • Cross-media projects development (graphics, photography, corporate identity, Internet presence).
  • Web development on LAMP stack, server administration.

ImageTweak

Developer 2007—Present

ImageTweak is an add-on for the Mozilla Firefox browser I created in 2007. Since then it has been downloaded over 2 million times and localized in more than 20 languages.

  • Mozilla platform (xulrunner) add-on development (JavaScript, CSS, XUL) and lifecycle managment.
  • Contributed a patch (integrated in Firefox 11) implementing some of the functionalities of the add-on.

Live Pino, Pino Torinese, Italy

Volunteer 2008—2012

Group of volunteers that organizes activities to foster youth aggregation and social participation.

  • Drafted new activity proposals and coordinated their development (e.g. rock concerts, sport contests).
  • Created the visual identity, website and advertising material of the group and its events.

TKK/HUT/Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Erasmus exchange MSc degree student September 2009—June 2010

Academic experience in a highly multicultural environment during which I had the invaluable opportunity to focus on advanced telecommunication and machine learning topics.

Minteos, Turin, Italy

R&D intern 2007 (6 months)

Feasibility study and prototyping of a low-cost wireless mesh wildfire alarm system.

  • Studied the infrasonic sound spectrum of wildfires and its atmospheric propagation characteristics.
  • Helped define specifications and identify low-cost parts for the prototype.

Education

Telecommunication engineering, MSc degree

Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy 2008—2011 Thesis: Compiler optimizations based on call-graph flattening (supervisor prof. S. Rivoira) Final grade: 110⁄110

Erasmus exchange MSc degree student

TKK/HUT/Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland 2009—2010

Telecommunication engineering, BSc degree

Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy 2004—2009 Final grade: 94/⁄110

Languages

Italian (mother tongue), English (academic proficiency, IELTS 7.5). Basic knowledge of French, German and Spanish.

Achievements

Erasmus scholarship

2009—2010

PRLP scholarships

2004—2005, 2005—2006, 2006—2007

Other interests

Photography; skiing, snowboarding and trekking; IT policy; fine food and beverages. But, most of all, "I love long travels, for getting lost is one of the best metrics to gauge who I am. I love the epiphanies this brings and memory it leaves, because it is only by experiencing differences that one can cast light upon its true self."