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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.

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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.

    • Vale la pena imparare Zig?

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      An introduction to the Zig programming language and toolchain. I gave this talk at pisa.dev.

    • Data visualization con Python: teoria e pratica

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      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.

    • Approaching geovisualization and remote sensing with GeoViews

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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.

    • High Performance Data Analysis with big HDF5 files in Python

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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 β€” 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.

    ⚠️ β€” Always wear a helmet when you ride. I love helmets.

    Find me online

    I'm on GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn andβ€”rarelyβ€”on Twitter. I'm also on Goodreads if you have any books you want to recommend me.

    For availability and rates, please email me.

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