Davide Cassenti

I work as Application Developer for Appcelerator, the leading mobile platform company that created Titanium™, a platform that lets you develop native, hybrid and mobile web applications from a single codebase.

Before that, I have been working as Software Developer and Operations Engineer for Funambol, a mobile open source company with headquarters in Foster City, California, and development in Pavia, Italy.

I mainly work with web-related technologies: I like programming especially with HTML/Javascript in the client side, PHP/mySQL on server side. I've always been fond of technology, since I received my first computer: a Commodore 64, centuries ago. Few years later, I joined the development world with my Amiga 500, and then I moved to web-related languages and mobile.

I have a passion for travelling and my very favorite destination abroad is Georgia - no, not the one with Atlanta! I fell in love with the place and went back there several times: it's a place that stays in your heart. During my trips I love taking photos - I've a reflex which I can't yet use properly, although I really like some of my pictures.

I also like going around with my bike, hanging out and playing board games with my friends, get the last tech devices that come out and, last but not least, reading books. I also did win the company's Foosball tournament once :) And if you are wondering why Gentleman and Scholar, that's only because a few people told me those exact words during my customer support work experience.

On September 2012 I won an internal hackathon at Appcelerator writing an Alloy and Node.ACS app called WhereIsEveryone.

On June 2012 I got completed the classes and obtained the Titanium Certified Application Developer (TCAD) and the Titanium Certified Mobile Developer (TCMD) certifications.

On March 2011 I partecipated, together with my friend Marco, to the Codefest Virtual Combat, a contest organized by the Department of Computer Engineering of Banaras Hindu University, India. The competition was a java AI programming contest based on Robocode; our team Fideeteam got the third place.

On January 2002 I got the first place at the Italy's Regional Selections for the 14^th International Olympiad in Informatics, which allowed me to partecipate to the National Selections. The IOI is an international programming competition for high school students.

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Work Experience

Application Developer at Appcelerator May 2012 - now http://www.appcelerator.com

Development of native mobile applications using the Appcelerator Titanium Javascript framework
Work with Appcelerator Alloy framework and relative technologies (Backbone, MongoDB, NodeJS)
Server side development with NodeJS, mainly in connection with the Appcelerator Cloud Services
Customer help and advisory, to assist them to create cross platform mobile applications
Customization of the Customer Support platform, to add additional features written in PHP

Technologies used: Javascript, HTML, PHP, NodeJS, Zend, jQuery, MongoDB, mySQL, Backbone

Back-end Developer at PastBook August 2012 - December 2012 http://www.pastbook.com

Design and implementation of back-end functionalities in PHP, to generate virtual books with user's Instagram photos
Work with graphic designer to implement the front-end UI, written in HTML/Javascript
Development of responsive designs, to adapt the pages to different device types
Design and implementation of the document-oriented database to store the book information
Agile methodologies

Technologies used: PHP, HTML, Javascript, jQuery, Smarty, mySQL, Bootstrap, Backbone

Software Developer at Funambol February 2011 - May 2012 http://www.funambol.com

User Interface development of AJAX-based web portal, used by over 200k users to manage personal data and media and synchronize with mobile devices
Working in a team with Agile methodologies (SCRUM)
Development of back-end Java APIs that allows desktop and mobile clients to communicate with the core server
Working on customer related projects, with tight deadlines and different teams

Technologies used: Javascript, HTML, JSP, PHP, DocBook, Perl

Operations Engineer at Funambol March 2009 - February 2011 http://www.funambol.com

Working with Operations team to provide help, training and support to 40+ customers
Developed the Customer Support web portal, used by customers to manage tickets, personal deliveries and documentation
Created a tool that allows customers to request branded version of mobile clients for over 10 different platforms
Collaborating with IT department, managing 50+ users and 50+ local and remote servers (real servers and VM in the cloud)
Responsible of the development of over 10 plugins for the ticketing platform, used to manage customer deliveries, reporting and workers organization
Experience of customer support on-site for a 15 days training and support
Worked on the online documentation project, used to allow users and customers to read web-based versions of 40+ documents
Collaborated with Community related projects, to help users to find out help and support on Open Source version of the product

Technologies used: PHP, Javascript, HTML, ticketing systems (Cerberus HD)

Systems Administrator at Funambol August 2007 - March 2009 http://www.funambol.com

Main responsible of the design and maintenance of 30+ users accounts, 30+ local and remote servers and network infrastructure
Hardware installation of servers and network in the Italian office, included wired and wireless internet connection
Setup over 10 internal services, including DNS, OpenVPN, Syslog-ng and DHCP servers, installed on local and remote machines
Hardware and software maintenance
Users support and accounts management

Technologies used: Linux management, PHP, HTML, mySQL, Postgres

Web Developer at Pixel Instrument January 2006 - August 2007 http://www.pixelinstrument.net

Created personal and business websites and web based applications
Learned new software programming technologies, including HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP and mySQL

Technologies used: PHP, Javascript, HTML, mySQL

Office Worker and Web Developer at GLS Italy August 2002 - February 2004 http://www.gls-italy.com

Worked as office assistant
Collaborated on few software development projects for internal applications

Technologies used: PHP, HTML

Education and Training

I.T.I.S. G.Cardano Pavia September 1998 - July 2003

Obtained Diploma as Industrial Engineer qualification DSE (Perito Industriale Capotecnico ABACUS spec. Informatica) on July, 9th 2003 with mark 95/100
Activities and fields include: computer programming, computer science, networking, mathematics, physics

Personal Skills

Mother language:	Italian
Other languages:	English

Obtained the University of Cambridge “Entry Level Certificate” awarded as “Pass with merit”
Working since 2007 for a US company, using the English language in the daily job
reading skills: excellent
writing skills: excellent
verbal skills: excellent

Technical and Organizational Skills

Worked with Microsoft Windows (all versions), Linux (RedHat/CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu) and OSX operating systems
Experience with Symbian and Android mobile platforms
Over 10 years experience with web related technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, PHP, mySQL
Experience with Java and C programming
Developed a simple game in Java for an University exam, using a MVC architecture
Experience with cloud services, including Amazon EC2 instances
Worked with the WordPress and Devblocks CMS
Experience with PHP Zend, jquery and dojo frameworks
Experience with CISCO Firewall configuration
Good ability to find and solve computer related issues and problems
On-site and remote experience with customers training and help
Network and servers installation, setup and management
Worked during weekend/on-call to support customers
Obtained the third place in the programming contest "CodeFest Virtual Combat", organized by the Department of Computer Engineering of the Banaras Hindu University in March 2011
Winner of Appcelerator internal hackathon in 2012

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