Head of WordPress

Leading a team of motivated professionals to create new solutions on a Web Hosting product with over 2 million WordPress installations.

Head of Technology

Black Studio is an Italian web agency specializing in custom web development, graphic design, hosting, and strategic consulting. In my current position as Head of Technology, I am in charge of:
– Technical analysis, consultancy, project management, and implementation of digital projects, with a particular focus on custom WordPress projects
– System administration of the hosting infrastructure (400+ websites, 1000+ mailboxes)
– Supervision of a fully remote team of web developers
– Relations with customers and suppliers

Certified WordPress Expert Developer

– Codeable is a popular online outsourcing platform for WordPress projects with handpicked and pre-screened experts.
– Completed 250+ projects for 50+ different clients, with an overall rating of 4.98/5.

Lead Engineer

– Technical analysis, consultancy, project management, and implementation of web projects, with a particular focus on custom WordPress projects.
– System administration of the hosting infrastructure.
– Leading a fully remote team of web developers.
– Tech support to customers.
– Speaking at tech conferences.

Lead Web Developer

– Development of websites, with a particular focus on custom WordPress projects.
– Development of custom WordPress plugins, for clients and for free distribution (including the popular Black Studio TinyMCE Widget, which counts 10+ million downloads).
– Leading a fully remote team of web developers.
– Tech support to customers.

Senior Web Developer

– Development of the custom CMS BlackRay, which was providing state-of-the-art technology along with ease of use by the customers. It has been used for the development of dozens of clients’ websites. Features included: intuitive content management for pages, news, events, products, image galleries, and attachments; native multilingual support; newsletter and text messages (SMS); users management; modular structure for additional functionalities; customizable themes
– Development of dynamic websites for the agency’s customers.
– Technologies involved: PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, Dreamweaver.

Web Developer

– Development of static and dynamic websites for the agency’s customers.
– Technologies involved: PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, Dreamweaver.

Web Developer

– Development of static and dynamic websites for the agency’s customers, either developed from scratch or based on existing open-source CMS platforms.
– Technologies involved: PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Dreamweaver, PhpNuke, PostNuke, MD-Pro.

Web Developer

– Development of custom functionalities for the Parksmania website, the leading Italian portal for amusement parks.
– Technologies involved: PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Dreamweaver, Joomla, phpBB.

C++ Developer

– Development of video games distributed with freeware and shareware licenses. Among these, Biliardo, a free billiards simulation, became very popular, totaling several million downloads and getting reviews in specialized magazines and websites.
– Consultancy on billiards videogame development for a private company.
– Development of simple management applications and promotional video games for large companies (Accenture, Alternative Spa) and private clients.

Electrical Engineering TeacherElectrical

– In charge of the electrical engineering chair.
– Teaching the basics of electrical circuits and machines.

Master's Degree - Software Engineering

Grade: 100/100 with honors

Address: Computer Systems and Applications
Experimental thesis in combinatorial optimization entitled “Heuristic algorithms for the Periodic Vehicle Routing Problem”

Professional Diploma - Electrical Engineering

Grade: 60/60