About me

I was born and raised in Verona, a city of the northern part of Italy known for its wine as well as for Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet. I was actually born in the heart of Valpolicella and got baptized with famed vino Amarone.

In 2004, I moved east towards Venice to enroll in the faculty of Engineering at one among the earliest universities of the world.
I am really proud of what it has been done at the University of Padova since 1222. Some eminent alumni are F. Faggin (inventor of the first micro-processor), M. Marchiori (inventor of Hypersearch and father of modern search engines), and even G. Galilei (needless to introduce).

I've had multiple experiences abroad, studying at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), where I also did some research on object detection techniques on images and videos. Once I came back in Italy, to defend my dissertation in Padova, I earned a Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

A few weeks later, I was in Milan, working as a software engineer and consultant on a substantial project at a renowned banking group, creating a web application for credit management.
The project was sized 4,000 man-days, the software stack was interesting, and its adopted design patterns were innovative:
a Java/J2EE project, with enterprise architecture EJB 3, managed by Spring framework with Hibernate back-end, and an open-source AJAX framework with Java Server Faces at its front-end part.
As configuration manager of the project, my duties consisted of coordinating a small group of web developers and Oracle database admins, as well as supporting the analysis and design along with the development of the software product.

I quit that great job and embraced the idea of finding myself with something completely new. I kind of needed to get a different hint and to see things from another point of view. I thus started a trip, the scope of which is the trip itself.

I currently live in Melbourne, Australia.