About Me

Be the change you want to see in the world

My Story

The first tech thing I put my hands on was probably a GameBoy at the age of 3. Few years later, in the 90s, I was using a Commodore AMIGA 600 to play games and write simple stuff. I discovered I could do a lot of things, mess them up, and start again, creating new ones. It was amazing and I was fascinated. Those were the days when my passion for technology was born, and since then, my love for it always increased!

Nowadays, I'm an Android Developer with several years of experience. I started writing small pieces of Android code from Android 2.3 Gingerbread (2010), but my Android experience started sometime before with Android 2.1 Eclair, when I modded my HTC HD2 to run Android instead of Windows Mobile 6.5!

Since that day I have been daily using and loving Android! I have written my Bachelor thesis on Android and Developed an Android App, then I wrote GeoTask, a simple app which helps you with daily tasks based on geofences.

So I started my work career, doing some Java Web Application and some Android Apps, until I was finally able to follow the Android path completely, till today: I write beautiful Android Apps with Kotlin and I love it!

Skills

My Android toolkit

Other stuff I know

Git
Maven
Gradle
Jira
Confluence
BitBucket

Gitlab
C#
Javascript
Python
looking towards Dart and Flutter!

Languages

Italian

Mothertongue

English

Listening - B2

Reading - C1

Spoken interaction - B2

Spoken production - B2

Writing - C1

Apps I've worked on

Atelier Pics Editor

Blinkoo

Breathink

GeoTask

Leroy Merlin

MySky

play MGM

SNAI

Sport YES

Work experience

Senior Android Developer

ZestOne

10/2017 - CURRENT

Chiasso - CH

As Senior Android Developer I create Android apps contributing from their design to their implementation. My main focus is on the LeroyMerlin Android app which was rewritten from scratch.

From the tech side, apps are written in Kotlin, and I easily move from MVP (supporting old apps) to MVVM (in new apps). Epoxy and MvRx are the most useful libraries I love to use, next to Koin, Glide, RxJava, Retrofit and Mockk. I also take care of the backend stuff managing Firebase projects and writing TypeScript Cloud Functions.

To manage the workflow we use GitHub to keep trace of features/bugs and we do code reviews to improve our overall software quality.

Co-Founder

Woonders

11/2016 - 12/2019

Rome - IT

As Software Engineer I actively contribute to the development and release of Woonders’s main product Lace

The main technology used in this product is the Spring framework. The application runs on a Tomcat environment in the AWS cloud, where it uses ElasticBeanStalk, EC2, RDS, S3, SES, and other services offered by AWS. I also take care of the setup and the management of the environments and their infrastructure in the cloud.

To manage the workflow we use Gitlab to keep trace of features/bugs and we do code reviews to improve our overall software quality.

Lace

Lead Android Developer

IGT

06/2015 - 11/2016

London - UK

As Lead Android Developer I am coordinating the development of betting apps for a worldwide gambling clients. The apps are realized using the Android SDK and Android Studio and were built keeping in mind they must work on smartphones, tablets and on a customized interactive casino table, which runs ARC Welder, made by another company. The apps communicate with the server through REST WebServices which were implemented on the apps side using Retrofit.

In this role I am actively contributing to the development of the apps and I am also responsible to organize the workflow, call meetings, standups, manage the bugs/features reporting tool (JIRA), do code reviews (we use Bitbucket), strongly following Agile/SCRUM methodologies.

Used tools/architecture/frameworks: Android Studio, Git, JIRA, MVP, Retrofit, Dagger2, RxJava, Espresso, Robotium

Android Developer

IGT

12/2014 - 05/2015

Lugano - CH

Development from scratch and maintenance of Android and iOS mobile devices applications for customers operating in sports betting area. Native applications are built with the Android SDK, Eclipse, Android Studio (IntelliJ IDEA), Xcode

Participation in all phases of software development life cycle to convert concepts and specifications into released Android/iOS applications and features

Daily interaction with Server Side REST APIs

Daily interaction with systems and processes, including source control, bug tracking, testing, etc.

Strong use of Scrum methodologies

Internship

RCI Banque

06/2014 - 11/2014

Rome - IT

Inserted in a team of 3 people for the development of a Web application used for the management of the dealers’ inspectors of Renault-Dacia-Nissan dealerships in Italy. It was realized with the JSF framework (PrimeFaces), MySQL, Tomcat. (RUIR project)

Inserted in a team of 8 people for the development of a Web application used by sellers / dealers of Renault-Dacia-Nissan dealerships in Italy, to enter, manage and track customers’ practices. The application is also used to exchange information and files between the dealers’ offices and the headquarters of RCI Banque. It was realized with JSF framework (PrimeFaces), Oracle, Tomcat. (PVF-MATRIX project)

Web developer

Freelance

04/2014 - 06/2014

Rome - IT

Realization in a team of 2 people of the administrative portal (restricted area) of Amico Lavoro on behalf of Filca CISL. It was realized with C # / Asp.net, Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft SQL Server

Amico Lavoro

Internship

ObjectWay

01/2014 - 04/2014

Rome - IT

Study of specifications and tools for developing J2EE applications

Inserted in a team of 4 people for the maintenance and update (development of new features) of a commercial product for bingo halls’ management on behalf of HBG Group SpA. It was realized with the Struts framework, Microsoft SQL Server, JBoss.