Simone Giacco
Verified Expert in Engineering
LAMP Developer
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
Experience
Availability
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
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.
CTO - Developer
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.
CTO
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.
PHP Developer
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.
Experience
Prontohotel.com
http://goo.gl/pXjE2RMessagenius.im
SmartCFO Financial Platform
This portal has complex integrations with external REST APIs.
Skills
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
Education
Bachelor's (Incomplete) Degree in Computer Engineering
Roma Tre University - Rome
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