Valerio Barrilà

As a professional I prefer to have a broad view of my work and I like to follow every product development process. My curiosity allows me to always be updated on the technologies used to build the web. Being a positive, honest and determined person I always have been appreciated by my work mates and bosses.

I'm always happy if I have the opportunity to participate in conferences and conventions to meet other professionals with whom I can discuss ideas and projects.

I'd like to take a new challenge, moving out of Italy to learn different ways of working and different cultures, in this way I would like to improve myself as a person and as a professional.

I want to value my work taking advantage of the broad knowledge I have of the various web components and start a working path to became a project/technical leader.

In Lumata the main project I am working on is called Instant Mobile Marketing, a web service used by mobile operators to set up marketing campaigns based on topup events. Even if i was hired as Java developer, due to my flexibility I multitasked accomplishing different tasks. Some of our main topics are performances and scalability and my effort is spread all over the software components and architecture to achieve these objectives.

Sometimes I also worked on other projects when needed and I help my boss to make feasibility analysis and time/effort estimates for projects targeting mobile devices.

Since I am passionate about web application security, my boss gave me the oppurtunity to make an introductory course aimed to web developers and travel to different european company branches to expose it.

Hired to write a thesis on new hosting solution based on Google App Engine my first objective was to develop a time tracking application integrated with my company's Google Apps domain.

Next, on January 2010, I moved to the mobile departement and I started to develop applications for different devices, mainly iPad and iPhone. The app were written in native code but, when needed, also using HTML5 and its supported features to create rich web applications that looks like native ones.

I briefly interrupted my University carreer to start working in Humanbit to gain experience as visual designer and I mainly worked with frontend languages.

I was involved in every deploy processes and monitoring of web applications and one of the main issues we had to face was application performance due to database's bottlenecks.

Graduated in Digital Communication with a thesis titled "Progettazione e sviluppo di un sistema per la pianificazione di progetti aziendali mediante combinazione di servizi Google" (Design and development of a system for planning projects business through a combination of Google services).

The thesis is divided into:

• study of a web application for time management of projects and the drafting of reporting
• design and application development with Google App Engine for Java
• application integration with Google Calendar and Google Docs

Certificate of attendance for the Seminar "Web Application Security: hands-on lab"

I started working at 15 years old in the food industry following a working path to became a chef which took 5 years. During theese years I also worked as baker and gastronome. The most famous place with whom I have worked are Princi and Taveggia.

I did the compulsory military service at San Vittore prison in Milan helping social workers to conduct weekly interviews with detainees.

During the college I worked as a clerk at Rinascente and as store manager at Grazia Internet Café.

I really like sports and I practiced many different ones: basketball, soccer and taekwondo are the sports I have played most.

Traveling with my backpack to view new places or visit a friend who lives far away is what I like best; usually I travel with friends but sometimes I think is also nice to travel alone.

I love cinema and organize film forum evenings at my house with popcorn and pizza; my favorite filmmakers are Spike Lee, Woody Allen and Wes Anderson.