Luca Torella, Developer in Antony, France
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Luca Torella

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Location
Antony, France
Toptal Member Since
August 13, 2015

Luca is an iOS software engineer with a passion for writing maintainable, well-designed, performant, and stable software. He really enjoys user-friendly and visually appealing apps. He's a Swift enthusiast and an Apple fanatic.

A/B TestingXcodeObjective-CObject-oriented Programming (OOP)Unit TestingiOSCocoa TouchUIKitCore DataAFNetworkingSwiftCHaskellPythoniCloud

Portfolio

Scandit
Swift, iOS
Thetrainline.com
Model View ViewModel (MVVM), Specta Framework, AFNetworking, Core Data...
Blinkbox Music
AFNetworking, Core Animation, Swift, Objective-C, iOS

Experience

Objective-C - 13 yearsFunctional Programming - 8 yearsCocoa Touch - 7 yearsUnit Testing - 7 yearsiOS - 7 yearsGCD - 4 yearsC++ - 3 yearsSwift - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Xcode, MacOS

The most amazing...

...thing I've created is my PhD project, a tool written in Haskell to compute the semantics of TRS.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

2015 - PRESENT
Scandit
  • Developed Flow, a web-configurable app that supports a wide variety of common barcode scanning workflows.
  • Created all demo apps used to show our clients our leading barcode scanner SDK.
  • Designed a new API, implemented new features, and maintained the Scandit SDK.
Technologies: Swift, iOS

Agile Software Engineer

2015 - 2015
Thetrainline.com
  • Created a network layer.
  • Built the UI.
  • Architected software with MVVM.
  • Implemented analytics.
  • Conducted unit tests.
  • Developed some features using BDD techniques.
Technologies: Model View ViewModel (MVVM), Specta Framework, AFNetworking, Core Data, Objective-C, iOS

iOS Software Engineer

2014 - 2015
Blinkbox Music
  • Developed the API authentication framework.
  • Built a framework to handle communication between the main app and the watch/today extension.
  • Refactored the Analytics management system.
  • Co-developed a 2-level cache manager to handle caching of images at different sizes.
  • Developed several screens, such as the song history screen, the artist and album details screens, the full screen player, the station group details screen, and the station details screen.
  • Contributed to UI work during a major re-skinning which led to version 4.0.
  • Conducted functional tests via Frank.
  • Handled unit tests.
  • Conducted A/B testing via Leanplum.
Technologies: AFNetworking, Core Animation, Swift, Objective-C, iOS

Mac/iOS Software Developer

2005 - 2014
Luca Torella
  • Developed several applications for both iOS and OS X, working in teams large and small, for established companies and startups, as an independent contractor.
  • Used Core Data with a database with millions of records and some heavy operations to compute complex charts using Core Plot.
  • Developed profitable small-scale indie projects for both iOS and OS X.
Technologies: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, iCloud, Core Data, Objective-C, iOS

Blinkbox Music

Music streaming service, offering both ad-supported free radio as well as a full subscription product.

Thetrainline

#1 downloaded train app in the UK. More than 1M monthly unique users.

Languages

Swift, Objective-C, C, Haskell, Python, C++, C++14, C++17

Frameworks

AFNetworking, Cocoa Touch, UIKit, Core Data, WatchKit, Cocoa

Libraries/APIs

Core Animation, Facebook SDK

Tools

Xcode, Git

Paradigms

Unit Testing, Functional Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Object-oriented Design (OOD), Model View ViewModel (MVVM)

Platforms

iOS, WatchOS, iCloud, MacOS

Other

A/B Testing, GCD, Specta Framework

2010 - 2014

PhD in Computer Science

University of Siena - Siena, Italy

2007 - 2010

Master's Degree in Computer Science

University of Udine - Udine (Italy)

2004 - 2007

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

University of Udine - Udine (Italy) and Albacete (Spain)

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