A few words about me
Hi! I'm Giacomo, a freelance full-stack software developer from Italy.
Professional experience
I've been writing software for more than 20 years, starting with little scripts in Turbo Pascal when I was in high school, signal/image processing programs in Matlab when at the University (I am a biomedical engineer by training), and applications of various nature in my professional life: data analysis programs in R and Python; web applications in JavaScript, TypeScript and ClojureScript; native applications in Zig.
Nowadays I specialize in developing services in Node.js on Google Cloud Platform. I am also pretty familiar with Clojure and its ecosystem. If you need to target the Java Virtual Machine, I can help.
💡 — You can also listen to the description above.
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Here is my one-page CV in PDF. And here is in a slightly longer format.
Talks
Here are a few talks I gave at conferences and Meetups.
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Cloud Tasks: best practices and lessons learned
🗣️ English
🔗 Link
In this talk I described how Cloud Tasks works, highlighted its differences with Cloud Pub/Sub, and suggested a few guidelines to adopt when creating tasks and monitoring queues. I gave this talk at DevFest GDG Cloud Milano 2023.
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Zig: il controllo e la potenza del C, senza spararsi sui piedi
🗣️ Italian
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An introduction to the Zig programming language, aimed to JavaScript developers. I gave this talk at Bologna JS.
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Vale la pena imparare Zig?
🗣️ Italian
🔗 Link
An introduction to the Zig programming language and toolchain. I gave this talk at pisa.dev.
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Data visualization con Python: teoria e pratica
🗣️ Italian
🔗 Link
In this presentation I gave at PyFirenze I talked about the fundamentals of data visualization (visual perception, tidy data, the grammar of graphics) and showed many examples fo various type of charts in Altair.
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Approaching geovisualization and remote sensing with GeoViews
🗣️ English
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In this conference talk I gave at GeoPython I used a shapefile and a few python libraries to show a simple geospatial analysis of Basel districts.
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High Performance Data Analysis with big HDF5 files in Python
🗣️ English
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In this tutorial I gave at PyData Munich I showed how to load the entire NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission dataset into an HDF5 dataset, analyze it with pandas and PyTables, and visualize it using Datashader.
ℹ️ — I keep track of all of my talks in this GitHub repo, where you can find links to the relevant material for each talk.
Hobbies
I like both surf skating and inline skating. I try doing either one of the two at least 3 times a week. I also have an all-terrain electric skateboard. It's pretty cool.
⚠️ — Always wear a helmet when you ride. I love helmets.