About Me
I was born in Amandola, Marche, Italy, in 1995.
My interest in technology started when I was a child: I passed many afternoons unscrewing things to see what was hidden inside of them. When I was 15 I had a really good time jailbreaking friends' iPhones, iPods, and iPads; in the same years, I started to explore also the Android system and I was fascinated by the possibility to customize the OS with root access.
In February 2014 I started writing articles for an emergent Android tech blog ( GooglExperience ) and, since then, I've tried to explain people the droid world in the simplest way possible. After high school, I enrolled at the University of Trento
where I studied Computer Science from 2014 to 2019.
In the meantime, I joined another Android tech blog ( TuttoAndroid ) and I have worked in it for two years. I started to get closer to the coding world during my two last years of high school but I built my first important project only in 2016: UniMeal (yellow app icon on the homepage). From then on, I started to gain more interest in Mobile Development, Voice Assistants and home automation.
From October 2018 I started working at Belka, a design and software development startup based in Trento. We are developing a new version of Fatture In Cloud app for both iOS and Android using React Native: it is the biggest invoicing app in Italy and a cool project on which was really happy to participate.
In March 2020 I started working in Brighton, UK, for an english fintech startup, Bofin, as an Android Developer.
In January 2021, I left the UK and joined an amazing fintech project, Flowe, and I'm currently working there with the Android Development team.
Moving to UK: straight into the Fintech World!
I have always wanted to move abroad and, specifically, I started liking the UK among any other country: there are a lot of interesting companies and the country is full of possibilities. I decided to move there and started searching for a job on ~December 2019.
After a long search I've passed the interviews and started working remotely ( because of COVID-19 ) for Bofin, a fintech UK startup based in Brighton, and then packed everything and flew there. I live here since 2020 and I'm enjoying the British vibe quite a lot! 🇬🇧💂🏻
The Flutter match: QuantoFattura
During my work as a mobile developer in Belka, I had the chance to explore the new and marvelous world of Flutter: we chose this new language to test its potential and to try something different from React Native.
QuantoFattura is a WIP Flutter app for both iOS and Android that lets the user search all the economics info about a company ( earnings, costs, revenue, etc).
As for now, you can enjoy a Dribble shot of it.
Never Forget to thanks open source libraries!
As developers, we live in a world where P2P communication and sharing is everything. We ask something on StackOverflow and wait until someone shows up, we look for free libraries on GitHub to save time and have a good implementation of a function and so on.
All is given for granted. But is it? My journey starts here: a JIRA issue on the project I was developing at work.
FIC-87 : As a [User] I would like to see which open source libraries are being used by the app.
Until that moment I had never realized how important attribution was for the open-source world. I started thinking of how could I push other developers to credit other peers that gave them something for free and avoid my own mistake!
So I wrote my first Medium article to stimulate other developers to do so.
Link
Bachelor's Degree Thesis
My bachelor's thesis was focused on Voice Assistants.
During my internship in Memetic, I had the chance to explore the various solutions of voice assistants ( Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri ) and got my hands dirty with the design and development of third-party apps for Google Assistant. The second part of the thesis is focused on the analysis of how Dialogflow and its API work. You can read it here: it's in Italian.
With the help of my colleague Massimiliano I wrote also a keynote for the thesis presentation: you can read it here.