Diego Colombo

Current

Senior Software Engineer at Realtime worlds Ltd.
PhD Student at IMT Lucca

Past

Research Fellow at Visual Computing Laboratory - ISTI - CNR - Italy
Software Architect at GAL Etruria
R&D Developer at Milestone srl

Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation
Software Developer Engineer at Microsoft Corporation
PhD Scolarship at University of Pisa
Cofounder at Netfarm Srl

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Education

Università di Pisa
Università di Pisa

Recommended

16 people have recommended Diego

Connections

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

Diego Colombo’s Summary

2006 Robot Software Development with .NET, Giua high school cagliari
2005 Web Development and application engineering in Microsoft .NET 2.0, Opus automation
2005 GDI+ programming and Component design with C#, Ferrari Races division
2005 Development of Robotics4.NET
2003 GDI+ programming and Component design with C#, Kepos
2000 Cofounder Netfarm

Diego Colombo’s Specialties:

.NET Framework and Compact
XNA
DirectX
WPF (3D graphics)
C#
C++
MEL
Renderman

Diego Colombo’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Realtime worlds Ltd.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Games industry)

October 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
PhD Student

IMT Lucca

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

November 2004 — Present (4 years)

My research is on meta programming facilities for STEE like Microsoft .NET Framework
Research Fellow

Visual Computing Laboratory - ISTI - CNR - Italy

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

June 2007 — October 2007 (5 months)
Software Architect

GAL Etruria

(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Government Administration industry)

November 2006 — October 2007 (1 year)
R&D Developer

Milestone srl

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

November 2006 — May 2007 (7 months)

Working on game engine development for pc and console
http://www.milestone.it
Program Manager

Microsoft Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)

Program Manager in the CLR team, the project is focused on a game engine prototype with Microsoft XNA framework
Software Developer Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2006 — June 2006 (4 months)

Microsoft Robotic (http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics)
Robot Software Development Kit IDE
Robot Editor development (Physical Model View)
Simulation Rendering (assets mainly)
PhD Scolarship

University of Pisa

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

November 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 8 months)

Working on self evolving program facilities wih .NET framework, the main case study is based on software for robots through the platform Robotics4.NET in collaboration with Microsoft Research Cambridge
Cofounder

Netfarm Srl

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — January 2002 (2 years 1 month)

Diego Colombo’s Education

Università di Pisa

Master, Computer Science, 2002 — 2004

Activities and Societies:

Gruppo Beatrice, Medialab, CSLab
Università di Pisa

Bachelor, Computer Science, 1999 — 2002

Additional Information

Diego Colombo’s Websites:

Diego Colombo’s Interests:

3D Graphics, A/V Editing, Robot development, Game Programming, Gaming

Diego Colombo’s Groups:

MS Alumni Network,IEEE RAS, ACM SIGGRAPH, Free Masonry,Academic Club

World Wildlife Fund
Freemason@LI
Gaming People - The Gaming People Expert Network
Microsoft Alumni Network
Friends of Ireland
Freemasons and Knights Templars International Network for Grandlodge approved members and lodges
.NET Developers
Casual Games
Video Gamers
Game Developers
University of Pisa
Videogames Italia
UK Games Developers
IMT Lucca
Microsoft Alumni (& Employees)
Electronic Entertainment Industry Network
Alumni Università di Pisa - Italy
VideoGame Professionals
Imagine Cup Alumni
Games Options