MARCO SERO

Employment

• Application EngineerOctober 2012 - Now

  The App Business

  Making iOS apps for world's biggest brands (Unilever, Mercedes, and Sony just to name a few).
  Technologies: Objective-C (iOS), Ruby (Ruby on Rails, Sinatra), MongoDB, Heroku, Amazon EC2

• Creator and chief engineerMarch 2012 - Now

  Events Detection

  The main focus of my ambitious side-project wants to detect crowdsourced and geotagged social events through real-time analysis of social networks. Started during university, then it won the Working Capital's grant by Telecom Italia as one of the best project of the year 2012. 
More info can be found here: http://eventdetection.marcosero.com
  Technologies: Java (Hadoop), Objective-C (iOS app), Ruby (Sinatra), MongoDB, Nginx

• Part-time Tutor in Oracle SQLSeptember 2011 - July 2012

  University of Turin

  Assistant professors in the course of Database regarding the educational activities conducted in the laboratory. In particular, program focused on conceptual/logic design, using the ER model (Entity Relationship), and on SQL queries in Oracle.
  Technologies: Oracle SQL

• Self employed iOS and Mac OSX DeveloperJuly 2011 - January 2012

  In my first academic year I developed and released two applications:

  myLibretto, a Mac OS X application to manage a database of university exams and to calculate average and final grades according with Italian regulation. In the first six months it was in the top paid educational apps. Link Mac App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/mylibretto/id470129723?mt=12

  SnoozeOrStop, an iOS jailbreak tweak on the Cydia store downloaded 100K times:
  Technologies: Objective-C (Cocoa touch, Cocoa, Theos, Core Data)