Ettore Pasquini

Current

• Hacker at a stealth startup
• Owner at Cubelogic

Past

• Sr. Software Engineer at 3Dconnexion, Inc. (a Logitech company)
• Lead Software Engineer at Nfinite Productions LLC
• Software Engineer at Oracle

• Web Developer at captainsinn.com
• Software Engineer at Ekar S.p.A. / Altran Group (in Italy)
• Engineering Intern at CISE (in Italy)

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Education

• Università di Bologna

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Home Page

Ettore Pasquini’s Summary

I am focused on building elegant applications with code that is easy to read (like a book).

Ettore Pasquini’s Specialties:

C, C++, OOP, usability, development in a Un*x environment, test driven development, minimal design, web standards.

Ettore Pasquini’s Experience

• Hacker

  a stealth startup

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

• Owner

  Cubelogic

  (Computer Software industry)

  1999 — Present (10 years)

  Cubelogic is my software making outlet and consulting business. I have been programming from the age of 11 out of pure passion.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  3Dconnexion, Inc. (a Logitech company)

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 2005 — July 2008 (3 years 3 months)

  SpaceNavigator project (9/06 - 7/08)
  - Designed and implemented in C++ the joystick architecture of Second Life on Mac OS X and Windows. Shipping since v1.20 of the client.
  - Contributed C/C++ patches and plug-ins for Blender and SDL for OS X, Windows, Linux.
  - Wrote a software update application using the Cocoa framework.
  - Ported the Google SketchUp plug-in (C++) from Windows to OS X.
  - Contributed C sample code for 3Dconnexion's SDK for OS X.
  
  NuLOOQ project (5/05 - 8/06)
  - Designed and coded (C++, Objective-C) various modules of the "tooldial" software for OS X, including license system, summary generator, Photoshop Actions parser, hotkey manager.
  - Test-Driven Development.
  - Implemented an Adobe InDesign plug-in (Mac, Windows). Self-taught InDesign SDK and Win32 API.
  - Won DigitalFocus 2006 Innovation Award, 2007 PC World 20 Most Innovative Products Award.

• Lead Software Engineer

  Nfinite Productions LLC

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2003 — November 2004 (1 year 2 months)

  - Designed Rap-A-Matics, a cross-platform (Mac OS X and Windows) Java stand-alone educational application.
  - Utilized design patterns (MVC, Mediator, Proxy, Command, etc.) to maximize reusability.
  - GUI design and development (J2SE with AWT and Swing).
  - Learned the QuickTime for Java framework with no impact on deadlines to display media content.
  - Implemented a MS Windows installer (NSIS).

• Software Engineer

  Oracle

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

  August 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 2 months)

  - Worked in the Oracle Projects development team for Family Pack M product (part of their eBusiness Suite), using Oracle Applications Framework (v11.5.10).
  - Designed the reporting module under non-trivial performance constraints (millions of records).
  - Coded user-configurable pages, JavaBeans and PL/SQL components.
  - Independently wrote Perl scripts for XML processing and shared them with the team.

• Web Developer

  captainsinn.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  February 2003 — July 2003 (6 months)

  - Cross-browser web authoring (valid HTML + CSS), with separation between content and presentation

• Software Engineer

  Ekar S.p.A. / Altran Group (in Italy)

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 8 months)

  - Java, JSP, JavaScript, Oracle PL/SQL development for a 3-tier OLTP web application.
  - Extended the Oracle BC4J framework.

• Engineering Intern

  CISE (in Italy)

  (Internet industry)

  December 2000 — May 2001 (6 months)

  - Oracle, JSP.

Additional Information

Ettore Pasquini’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Home Page

Ettore Pasquini’s Interests:

Music making, modern art, logic, philosophy (Ludwig Wittgenstein), programming, sci-fi (P.K. Dick, J. Ballard), films (D. Lynch, W. Herzog, O. Welles, S.M. Eisenstein, P. Greenaway, many more)

Ettore Pasquini’s Groups:

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