Giacomo (Peldi) Guilizzoni

Current

Founder & CEO at Balsamiq Studios, LLC

Past

Sr. Engineering Lead at Adobe Systems, Inc
Engineering Lead at Adobe Systems
Sr. Software Engineer at Adobe

Author at O'Reilly & Associates
Software Engineer at Macromedia
Quality Assurange Engineer at Macromedia
Paid Technology Intern at Razorfish

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Education

Università di Bologna

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Giacomo (Peldi) Guilizzoni’s Summary

I like to make great software happen, by coding it, designing it, leading a team of developers, interacting with product managers, quality assurance engineers, localization, support, marketing and documentation people. Basically I love the process but most of all love the end product: useful, usable, beautiful, rock-solid software.

Giacomo (Peldi) Guilizzoni’s Specialties:

Team leadership, Flex, Actionscript, Rich Internet Applications, Flash Media Server, Flash

Giacomo (Peldi) Guilizzoni’s Experience

Founder & CEO

Balsamiq Studios, LLC

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Balsamiq is focused on adding flavor to Web Office suites. Our first product, Balsamiq Mockups, is a wireframing tool. Check it out at http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups
Sr. Engineering Lead

Adobe Systems, Inc

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADBE; Internet industry)

September 2007 — June 2008 (10 months)

I am Sr. Engineering lead for Acrobat ConnectNow, now part of Acrobat.com
Engineering Lead

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Led development team for the next generation of Acrobat Connect
Sr. Software Engineer

Adobe

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 7 months)

I am one of the 3 developers and the sole remaining founder of Breeze Meeting (see the Adobe website for info on the product).
Author

O'Reilly & Associates

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

August 2004 — February 2005 (7 months)

I co-authored the O'Reilly "Programming Flash Communication Server" book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596005040) which is still in 2008 considered "the bible" for Flash Media Server development. I wrote chapters 9 (Remote Methods), 14 (Understanding the Macromedia Component Framework) and 15 (Application Design Patterns and Best Practices). It was fun!
Software Engineer

Macromedia

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MACR; Computer Software industry)

January 2003 — January 2005 (2 years 1 month)

I was on the team that started the development of Breeze Live, an enterprise-level online meeting application built in Flash and Flash Communication Server.
Quality Assurange Engineer

Macromedia

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MACR; Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — January 2003 (1 year 1 month)

I was a QA on Flash Communication Server.
Paid Technology Intern

Razorfish

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

Giacomo (Peldi) Guilizzoni’s Education

Università di Bologna

Laurea (Master Equivalent) , Computer Science , 1994 — 2001

don't be afraid, people in Italy stay in school for a long time, I can explain... ;) Anyways, I graduated summa cum laude with a focus on software engineering yadda yadda yadda... ;)