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Hi!
As you can guess by the hostname my name is Roberto Belardo and I am a Software Engineer with a lot of passions, one of which is IT. Here you can read some notes about me, what I did, what I am currently doing, and what I would like to do in the future.
I was born in Rome in 1982 and I quickly found my way through life till the moment I got my first computer. A Commodore64. I still remember the hours spent waiting those cassettes while loading… That was really a pain in the *** but it was worth it. From then on it was an escalation of love for "computer stuff".
The decision to get a Master Degree in Computer Science Engineering was straightforward. I graduated cum laude at the University of Rome Tor Vergata with a thesis on “Web services selection and QoS monitoring“.
Once graduated I decided to try to live in London, so I made my bags and I left for London looking for a job. But I didn’t have a great timing, because there was the entire Europe who was just graduated and looking for a job in London, so I just spent a month there, I have made some friends and I have exercised my English.
Once back from London I started working at Engineering on a product for Tim Brazil. I developed backend modules for that huge webapp, refactored a lot of legacy code and managed production deploy two times on site with the client in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was an amazing experience that I will remember for the rest of my life. There I have meet true friends, I have spent nights programming, facing the client and eating picanha.
I wrote significant software in Java, C, Objective C, Ruby on Rails, Perl and Php.
I wrote Hello World in Python, C++, Javascript, etc…
I am currently working in Rome for Rai – Radiotelevisione Italiana where, along with a strong team, I am re-engineernig business processes from analog to digital. We are developing a variety of softwares to replace cassettes with files and switch to digital the entire production chain. In particular, handle the efficient transfer of very large files , I build last-minute prototypes, I revise supplier’s Java code in order to meet our quality standards.
My current interests includes nosql databases (i recently certified as MongoDB developer), Agile methodologies (i am certifying as a Certified Scrum Master) and the development of iOS apps (I have designed and developed with two friends QuitItApp, and we have positioned finalists at SMAU 2012) .
In my free time I like to do rock climbing, snowboarding, make photos, go mountain biking with my friends and play with Ettore, my dog.
Looking to the next future I am considering moving abroad looking for new motivation. I would like to work in a European capital such as Berlin or Amsterdam (of which I fell in love during two trips I have done in recent years), perhaps in a start-up, where you can learn from new colleagues, where I could become attached to a product and where to apply agile methodologies that I have studied.