Simone Giacco, Developer in Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy
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Simone Giacco

Verified Expert  in Engineering

LAMP Developer

Location
Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy
Toptal Member Since
January 23, 2014

Simone is a CTO and senior web developer with business, marketing, SEO, and UX skills. He gladly works on teams and usually achieves the best results as team leader. He has extensive experience building complex applications with scalability in mind plus full-stack portals and apps.

Portfolio

06labs.com
JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, MySQL, PHP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), WooCommerce...
Messagenius.im
WordPress, MySQL, PHP, Agile Project Management
Prontohotel.com
WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, MySQL, PHP

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

REST APIs, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, WordPress

The most amazing...

...thing I've built is a successful community in PHP at the age of 16.

Work Experience

CTO, Co-founder, Developer

2011 - PRESENT
06labs.com
  • Managed projects.
  • Developed complex WordPress projects, leveraging custom plugins and themes.
  • Implemented advanced WordPress customization.
  • Managing Linux servers.
  • Recruited developers.
  • Coordinated the design and UI/UX talent.
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, MySQL, PHP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), WooCommerce, WordPress

CTO - Developer

2013 - 2015
Messagenius.im
  • Created a real-time instant messaging app (server side).
  • Designed and managed the AWS infrastructure.
  • Created a powerful web service.
  • Managed iOS and Android app projects.
Technologies: WordPress, MySQL, PHP, Agile Project Management

CTO

2008 - 2011
Prontohotel.com
  • Managed a team of developers.
  • Managed a number of R&D projects with offshore developers.
  • Created a semantic engine to understand hundreds of thousands of hotel rooms.
  • Managed database optimization, partitioning. and clustering.
  • Handled full-stack development.
Technologies: WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, MySQL, PHP

PHP Developer

2002 - 2008
Prontohotel.com
  • Created a hotel comparison website similar to kayak.com/hotels.com (meta search engine).
  • Built a hotel booking portal similar to booking.com.
  • Created an automatic SEO algorithm.
  • Developed a caching infrastructure and a sort of CDN on Linux servers.
  • Created several CMSs for hundreds of websites.
  • Managed a very deep SEO optimization including page speed optimization.
Technologies: MySQL, PHP

Prontohotel.com

http://goo.gl/pXjE2R
A very complex price comparison site for hotels. I created the alpha version alone and continued managing the project when it scaled.

Messagenius.im

A WordPress website.

SmartCFO Financial Platform

A WordPress-based web app built for a European accountant firm that provides companies with a financial dashboard.

This portal has complex integrations with external REST APIs.

Languages

Sass, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, Java, Flash ActionScript, UML

Frameworks

Bootstrap, AngularJS, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Zend Framework, Symfony 2, Symfony

Libraries/APIs

WordPress API, jQuery Mobile, BuddyPress, jQuery UI, WordPress REST API, jQuery, Facebook API, Node.js, REST APIs, Backbone.js, Amazon API

Tools

LearnDash, PhpStorm, Adobe Dreamweaver, Git

Paradigms

Agile Software Development, UX Design, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Scrum, Agile Project Management

Platforms

WooCommerce, WordPress, MacOS, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows

Storage

MySQL, MongoDB, NoSQL, PostgreSQL

Other

Startups, Learning Management Systems (LMS), API Design, Lean Development, VoIP

2002 - 2005

Bachelor's (Incomplete) Degree in Computer Engineering

Roma Tre University - Rome

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