Riccardo Govoni

Current

• Software Engineer at Google
• Freelance writer at Self Employed (Self-employed)

Past

• IPTV System Analyst at Neptuny s.r.l.
• J2EE Software Architect at CSE
• J2EE Lead Developer at CSE

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Education

• Università di Bologna

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• BayesFor Association

Riccardo Govoni’s Summary

I have been writing software since 1989, mostly as a hobbyist, and started my professional career in 2003. I've written software for a variety of applications, ranging from financial portals to media and advertising solution. I've written code at all scales, from highly interactive javascript frontends, to IBM mainframe Cobol batch processors, including a lot of other platforms in between.

During this period, I ended up working on a variety of operating systems (win, linux, unix, mac, the cloud), languages (Java, C/C++, Python, Ruby, Javascript and others) and platforms ( databases, application servers, the Google technology stack I can't reveal anything about ).

When I used to love Java, I got the SCJP certification (Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 ).

I'm passionate about Data mining, Clustering, Information Visualization, User Experience, Dynamic Languages, Statistics & Physics.

Riccardo Govoni’s Specialties:

Specialities: I write code. Which works. Just keep the coffee running.

Riccardo Govoni’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Software Engineer in Internal Applications Department. Based in Dublin, Ireland, until May 2009. Now in London, UK.

• Freelance writer

  Self Employed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Writing and Editing industry)

  October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  Freelance writer for various web portals focused on IT and web development. Some articles:
  
  "Design an MVC Framework using annotations" (JavaWorld.com) October 2005
  "Achieving Inversion of Control with Eclipse RCP" (OnJava.com) June 2006
  "Enhance Eclipse RCP with Scripting" (DevX.com) , May 2007
  "Use Eclipse JET to Automate Model-Driven Development Aspects" (DevX.com) , July 2007
  "The Rich Get Richer: Eclipse Rich AJAX Platform Builds on RCP" (DevX.com), November 2007
  "A Flickr-based Introduction to Ruby on Rails 2.0 " (DevX.com), March 2008
  "OpenID and Rails: Authentication 2.0" (DevX.com), April 2008
  "OpenSocial: the power of social networks in your applications" (DevX.com), May 2008
  "JavaScript and jQuery: Web Apps as Highly Interactive as Desktop Apps" (DevX.com), December 2008
  "Google Visualization API: Deliver Graphical Data Analysis in Your Web App" (DevX.com), January 2009
  
  Full list on http://www.battlehorse.net/w/page/people/me/articles.html

• IPTV System Analyst

  Neptuny s.r.l.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2007 — October 2007 (6 months)

  Product Unit Leader in the field of IPTV recommendation software. Data-mining and Content-matching algorigthms. Social networking and social-affinity algorithms. J2EE scalable, reliable, distributed, web-services based solutions.

• J2EE Software Architect

  CSE

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

  January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)

  Installation, setup and integration of company-wide bug tracking software (JIRA). J2EE reference application design. Courseware for new java developers (20 ppl, 5 days).

• J2EE Lead Developer

  CSE

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2003 — January 2007 (3 years 7 months)

  J2EE Lead Developer managing a small team and working on J2EE financial applications.

Riccardo Govoni’s Education

• Università di Bologna

  110/110 cum laude , Physics , 1998 — 2003

  Master degree thesis on "Multigrid analysis techniques and subelliptic equations on Carnot groups"

Additional Information

Riccardo Govoni’s Websites:

• My Website
• BayesFor Association

Riccardo Govoni’s Interests:

information technology, java, role playing games, computer games, linux, open source

Riccardo Govoni’s Honors:

Winner of 'The Geekest Link' at TSSJS Barcelona 2006
Winner of the 'Java BlackBelt Challenge' at TSSJS Barcelona 2007 (http://picasaweb.google.com/mwanji/TheServerSideJavaSymposium2007Barcelona)

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