Responsible for the design and implementation of serverless cloud-based back-end infrastructure and APIs serving native and web applications, including authentication and authorization services and full-text search based on an Elasticsearch cluster.Worked on the development and training of experimental neural network models for document classification and text summarization.

Integration of the Elasticsearch service in the existing backend to provide full-text search capabilities in a knowledge base of medical articles and white papers.Mentorship of the backend team.

Full implementation of the Musement native Android application integrating search and payments APIs.

Design and implementation of a native Android application, providing all the functionalities of the Subito.it web portal, empowered by specific device capabilities, like: geolocation, capturing of photos, sharing of contents and direct connection with other people.

Design of the software architecture and development of hybrid mobile second-screen applications (Imerz™ Media Platform), on both iOS and Android devices, enabling interaction with streamed video contents, content sharing, and connected-devices features, like pushing of videos from device to device or from device to TV set.Design and development of both native and HTML5/Javascript software components, based on the Apache Cordova platform, defining an SDK which enables the implementation of hybrid web applications runnable on mobile devices as well as web browsers.

Design and development of mobile second-screen applications, based on both iOS and Android OS, which enable interaction with streamed video contents, by employing different types of time synchronization: web based, audio based, device-to-device communication, etc.Submission of iPhone and iPad mobile applications for local TV networks (RCBA, MashboxTV) enabling content interaction.Design of the software architecture and development of web-enabled interactive applications based on Blu-Ray Disc standard, employing Java programming languages on Eclipse platform. In particular, video and data streaming for interactive content, from both local storage and remote server.Development of software tools in C/C++ for face and object detection and tracking, employing state-of-art algorithms and techniques like Viola-Jones classifiers and SURF features extraction. And additional utilities for audio/video analysis, transcoding and transmuxing to support seamless integration of contents in proprietary framework, enabling video streaming and enhanced interactive features on different platforms.Server side development of web APIs for interaction with a CMS repository based on JCR specifications, and proprietary tools supporting automatic content analysis and tagging .

Software/firmware development using C/C++ and ASM languages on VxWorks RTOS single-chip Audio/Video CODEC, in a dual SPARC architecture.Responsible for the development of the ATSC stacks. Included analysis, architecture design, employing UML modelling and OOP methodologies, implementation and maintenance. The stacks supported main DTV features (channel search, channel change, parental rating, etc.), EPG (Electronic Program Guide) data collection, and the parsing and rendering of subtitles (EIA-608 and EIA-708B Closed Caption) for consumer products like HD TV, STB, HD/DVD recorder. Working in close contact with BitRouter Corp., San Diego, CA (US) and Planetweb Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US).Lead the team responsible for the middleware development of DVD playback and recording. Experienced at working in multi-cultural environments with teams in Bangalore (India) and Milpitas, CA (US).

Analysis, design and development, in C++ programming language, of software dedicated to operation and maintenance of second and third generation mobile networks (GSM/UMTS) using SQL for DB access at Siemens Mobile.

R&D on advanced video coding. Submission to the MPEG Call for Proposals (March 2004) of the video codec developed during thesis work. Invention patent registered for the algorithm of fast motion estimation FIBME (Fast In-Band Motion Estimation).Participation in the activities of MPEG SVC (Scalable Video Coding) ad-hoc group, in collaboration with Tilab, research center of Telecom Italia; with VisioWave, Ecublens, Switzerland; and with Prof. David Taubman (University of New South Wales).