Alberto Giudice
Junior Android Developer
I'm a junior Android developer, working on some of Denmark's most downloaded apps. In the meanwhile, I'm also studing videogame development.
Thanks to my studies and some freelance projects, I've strong foundations of Object Oriented Programming and Software Engineering, as well as clear notions of clean architecture and web development. I'm self-taught in Android development, improving by the day thanks to my current job.
I'm a sociable person, well suited for teamwork, always open minded towards new ideas and approaches. I like new challenges and I quickly adapt to overcome them, keeping my motivation under pressure without ever sacrifing the product (and the code) quality.
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Kotlin
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Java
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XML Layout
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MVVM Architecture
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Git + Atlassian Suite
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Adobe Creative Suite + UI/UX
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Problem Solving
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Teamwork
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Creativity
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Time Management
English
C1, IELTS Academic 8.0 (2019)
Italian
Mother tongue
I'm always up for a game night at Bastard Café. I love strategic board games.
I regularly role/master Pathfinder 2E campaigns with friends, streaming them on Twitch.
My personal OSs of choice are Windows and Android.
I got the Logician INT-P personality in the 16Personalities online test.
Android Developer
Shape A/S, July 2019-Present | København, DENMARK
I currently work part-time as an Android Developer for Shape A/S, implementing both logic and layout changes for their clients' apps. The apps I worked on include Fitness World, OK - Tank, wash and park, Solar Mobile and Nordisk Film Biografer. My work at Shape has included:
- Refactoring of old Java to Kotlin and MVVM;
- Implementation of data-binded Recyclerviews, Lottie animations and RXJava network calls.
- Implementation of custom behaviours like animated swipe actions in Recyclerviews.
Android Developer
Shape A/S, July 2019-Present
København, DENMARK
Shape is an award-winning digital product studio, with a team of 100+ devoted in-house developers, designers and strategists who combine innovation with digital craftmanship to deliver lasting products for mobile and beyond.
In Shape I've been hired as a student Android Developer with little experience, but I've quickly developed my skills completing many different tasks in 6 different projects. Most of the task I've completed required highly custom solutions to deliver high-class functionalities and animations for some of the company's biggest clients.
Working at Shape I've also improved significantly in working in a big team, acquiring in-depth knowledge of tools like the Atlassian Suite, Localise, Zeplin, Postman, Charles and many other.
During my time at Shape I achieved the following results:
- Worked on 6 different Android apps with different code architectures;
- Refactored some old code with modern and cleaner code;
- Organized design reviews with the design team and iOS developers;
- Discovered bugs or inconsistencies in the products and APIs;
- Succesfully handled a remote work environment during COVID-19 period.
LINK: Shape website
Teaching Assistant
IT University of Copenhagen, January-May 2020 | København, DENMARK
During my studies at ITU, I've been working as a Teaching Assistant for the Mobile App Development course in the MSc in Software Design. As a TA, I've worked in close contact with the professor to improve the course quality for all students. In particular I've had the following responsibilities:
- Weekly office hours to confront students in 1-on-1 sessions and help them solving issues;
- Weekly assignments grading and feedback;
- Organizing and holding workshops on specific Android tools and practices.
Teaching Assistant
IT University of Copenhagen, January-May 2020
København, DENMARK
ITU hired me as a Teaching Assistant for the course on Mobile App Development, thanks to my skills in Android Development acquired in my job at Shape A/S. The role of TA required constant communication with both the professor and the students.
The course - Mobile App Development - is taught in the MSc in Software Design and covers the basics of Android development from scratch. The book we followed for the most part is "Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide 3rd Edition" and the course focused on Java.
My communication with the professor has consisted of constant feedback on the material prepared for classes, helping him when he needed snippet samples or in case of technical bugs in Android's libraries implementation.
My communication with students has instead consisted of weekly office hours to help them with any doubts or issue related to the weekly classes and assignments. In the last part of the course I also helped students planning their final app assignment and overcoming any issue they faced while developing it.
Some of the experience I've acquired from being a Teaching Assistant have been:
- Discuss and plan the structure for a learning course;
- Succesfully explain difficult concepts in a simple way;
- Help others understand the reasons behind their bugs, allowing them to solve them theirselves;
- Prepare clear feedback to help the recipient improve;
- Manage to help others via online meetings.
LINK: IT University of Copenhagen website
Freelance UI Designer & Web Developer
MK Media S.r.l., 2014-2019 | Milan, ITALY
While my main task inside MK Media has been creating editorial, graphical and video content, my job also required me to create UI designs and code snippets for temporary usage. Some of this work consisted in:
- Creation of custom headings to sponsor particular events, which led to an increase in the user interactions;
- Creation of custom snippets to easily embed many e-shops referral links in an organic way, which led to an increase in the average click rate;
- Creation of many forms of imagery for different types of usage, includig the whole YouTube channel video and graphics branding.
Freelance UI Designer & Web Developer
MK Media S.r.l., 2014-Present
Milan, ITALY
MK Media is a company holding two major italian online news websites, TuttoAndroid and TuttoTech. TuttoAndroid is the second biggest news source about everything regarding the Android ecosystem in Italy, while TuttoTech covers a wider range of technology-related topics and is growing at a fast pace.
My major focus on both TuttoAndroid and TuttoTech has been creating high quality content, like product reviews, editorial pieces or advanced guides and tutorials. Other than written content, I created many videos aimed for TuttoAndroid's YouTube Channel. My videos were always written, shot and edited entirely by me, and their contribute helped almost trebling the channel's subscribers (more than 200'000 as of my last video).
I also represented MK Media at many product launch events and major business fairs, like the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and the IFA in Berlin. Thanks to these opportunities, I had the chance to meet and network with many major personalities in the consumer technology market.
Other than creating user-focused content, I also often worked in MK Media to produce graphic content for the websites and social medias, as well as to design stickers, bags, T-shirts and other branding accessories. Furthermore, I entirely designed and created both TuttoAndroid's and TuttoTech's YouTube channels' graphic layout and video animations two times.
On a smaller scale, I also did some freelance work for MK Media by creating custom snippets and custom site heading for special events.
During my work in MK Media I achieved the following results:
- Created more than 150 videos;
- Uploaded a video viewed more than 100'000 times;
- Highly increased the referral clicks during special sale events;
- Managed some editorial teams for special events' coverage, with great results;
- Designed the branding accessories and graphics for every meetup event held with fans.
LINK: TuttoAndroid | TuttoTech
Internship (Frontend Developer)
Tradenet Services, September-November 2017 | Schio, ITALY
Two month internship in a software company while preparing my Bachelor thesis. This internship was primarily focused on studying the possibility of creating a truly cross-platform version of ZotSell, the company's management software. While working in Tradenet I had the opportunity to:
- Work with a precise schedule and report daily feedbacks to a supervisor;
- Get a better understandig of the React + Redux code design;
- Evaluate open source projects and their implementability in relation to the company's requirements;
- Work with technologies like npm, Yarn and Electron.
Internship (Frontend Developer)
Tradenet Services, September-November 2017
Schio, ITALY
Tradenet Services is a software company based in northern Italy. The main product developed by the company is ZotSell, a management software for B2B sellers to easily keep track of their transactions and to share online documents. ZotSell is used by many big companies, like Nixon, Polini, Arbre Magique, Nordica and many more.
My experience in Tradenet Services has been a two-month-long internship in order to write my bachelor thesis. During this period, I studied the possibility of developing a cross-platform version of ZotSell that could work on desktop, web and mobile starting from a single core codebase written in React and React Native. To do so, I evalueted two open source projects: re-start and ReactXP. Both alternatives revealed major incompatibilities with the requirements and were discarded after the creation of some prototypes.
Even if my task in Tradenet did not ultimately lead to a viable product, I still had the opportunity to:
- Work with a precise schedule and report daily feedbacks to a supervisor;
- Get a better understandig of the React + Redux code design;
- Evaluate open source projects and their implementability related to the company's requirements;
- Work with technologies like npm, Yarn and Electron.
LINKS: Tradenet | Zotsell
MSc in Games (Technology)
IT University of Copenhagen, 2019-Present | Currently studying
I am currently attending a Master Degree in video games development. This MSc consists of both advanced aspects of Computer Science and practical projects in making actual games, both in groups and as an individual. As of my experience so far, I've already improved in various aspects:
- Practical application of design patterns and algorithms;
- Clear understanding of Game Engines architecture and Game Design principles;
- Teamwork and management of groups of different disciplines;
- Event planning and communication, as student representative of the programme.
MSc in Games (Technology)
IT University of Copenhagen, 2019-Present
Currently studying
This two-year-long master degree in Games is a programme for aspiring Game Developers from the IT University of Copenhagen and it's entirely taught in English. The structure of the courses is partly fixed, but there is a great flexibility in terms of electives and projects, allowing the students to develop their skills in many different ways.
Most of the courses from this programme require a team project to be handed in, as well as written reports to reflect and explain the work behind the final product. Many of the games created during this master ended up being small games, which can be found in my portfolio.
The full list of exams I've taken so far is the following one:
- Making Games | 15 ECTS
- Game Programming | 7.5 ECTS
- Games and Culture | 7.5 ECTS
- Data-Driven Design and Development | 7.5 ECTS
- Data Science in Games | 7.5 ECTS
- Game World Design | 7.5 ECTS
- Playable Media | 7.5 ECTS
LINK: IT University of Copenhagen website
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
Università degli Studi di Padova, 2015-2017 | 110 / 110 cum Laude
This 3-year Bachelor in Computer Science was my main formation in becoming a software developer. It helped me in achieving several crucial skills for a software developer, through both frontal lessons and pratical projects. Some of the skills I've acquired from my studies are:
- Mathematical, logical and algorithmical oriented approach to problem solving;
- Clear approach to clean software design and pattern usage;
- Practical usage of C++, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, XML, JSON, JavaScript, Git and MatLab;
- Software Engineering principles and team working.
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
Università degli Studi di Padova, 2015-2017
Grade: 110 / 110 cum Laude
This three-year-long bachelor degree in Computer Science was entirely taught in Italian at the University of Padua. The structure of the courses was mostly fixed, with just two elective courses. Many exams required some practical projects to be carried out, either by the individual student or in a team.
The third year was concluded with a two-month-long internship in a company (Tradenet Services) to develop an actual project. My final bachelor thesis is based on that internship experience, and it's called "Design and development of a cross-platform application using React and React Native".
The full list of exams I succesfully passed in order to get my bachelor degree is the following one:
- Computer Architecture | 8 ECTS
- Logic | 6 ECTS
- Mathematical Analysis | 12 ECTS
- Algebra and Discrete Mathematics | 12 ECTS
- Operative Systems | 9 ECTS
- Programming | 10 ECTS
- Computer Networks and Security | 10 ECTS
- Database | 9 ECTS
- Object-Oriented Programming | 10 ECTS
- Probability and Statistics | 6 ECTS
- Automata and Formal Languages | 8 ECTS
- Numerical Analysis | 7 ECTS
- Algorithms and Data Structures | 9 ECTS
- Artificial Intelligence | 6 ECTS
- Concurrent and Distributed Programming | 6 ECTS
- Operations Research | 7 ECTS
- Web Technologies | 9 ECTS
- Information Technology Enterprise Management | 6 ECTS
- Software Engineering | 13 ECTS
LINK: Informatica UniPD website
High School Diploma in Scientific Studies
Liceo Scientifico Primo Levi di Montebelluna, 2009-2013 | 99 / 100
My High School studies have been focused on scientific subjects, while also keeping a high level of education in humanistic fields like History, Philosophy and Latin. As a student of Liceo Levi I achieved the following goals:
- Participant in a winning experiment for Sperimentando, a regional competition about Physics experiments;
- Two-week internship at INFN (Italian's National Institute for Nuclear Physics);
- Team member of the institute's team for the regional Mathematical Olympiad;
- Team member of the institute's team for the regional Chemistry Olympiad.
Dispattern
Interactive Multiplayer Music Experience (Android), 2020 (In Development)
Dispattern is a smartphone-based interactive music experience developed as an exam project in the MSc in Games at the IT University of Copenhagen. This app has been made in Unity and features support for 1 to 4 concurrent players, engaged in creating music together by drawing colored lines on their screen. Any other person connecting to the app can spectate to the music played. My contributions to the project include:
- Shaders development to mimic subtractive color space;
- Implementation of the UI surrounding the canvas space;
- Implementation of various logic behind the behaviour of the experience;
- Active contribution in designing game mechanics together with sound and art directors.
Dispattern
Interactive Multiplayer Music Experience (Android)
Group project, 2020
Dispattern is a mobile interactive music experience aimed to connect up to 4 players simultaneously, in order to create beautiful music together. The players can draw platforms with simple swipes, and the note produced varies in relation to the platform's length.
This project was developed in Unity as an exam project during my MSc in Games at the IT University of Copenhagen. The multiplayer component is handled via Firebase, which handles platforms' transactions and player states. If more than 4 users connect at the same time, the ones not playing can spectate and listen to the music piece, while waiting for their seat to play.
While developing Dispattern, I've had the chance to improve in these regards:
- Shader development in HLSL, specifically playing with reverse subtractive effects and sprite texturing;
- Game logic implementation to support rendering of online multiplayer actions;
- Touch input handling for complex logic and animations in Unity;
- Reactive UI and tutorialization;
- Game mechanics design to satisfy constraint set by sounds and art.
LINK: APK Download (Safe to test!)
Ninja2D
2D Platformer Game (Android), 2019
Ninja2D is a simple 2D platformer created to learn the basics of Unity. It features a ninja character who can attack with a sword and shoot fireballs to various enemies, while trying to reach the end of the level. Its development took me approximately one week and it gave me the chance to improve in these areas:
- Planning a project that require many different parts to be accomplished;
- Learning a completely new technology autonomously and applying it in a pratical way;
- Searching and adapting third-party content to my needs, while creating new content with a similar style.
Ninja2D
2D Platformer Game (Android)
Solo project, 2019
Ninja2D is a small videogame project I created to learn the basics of Unity. The game is a 2D platformer developed primarily for Android, but easily portable to other platforms. In this game the player controls a ninja character in 2D linear levels with the goal of reaching the end of each one without falling from the platforms, while also facing some enemies. The player can jump, crouch, attack with a sword or shoot a fireball forward, while two of the enemies are a frog that jumps back and forth on platforms and an eagle that follows the ninja while he's within a certain range.
This videogame was entirely made by me except from the characters sprites and the background tiles, taken from royalty free assets. As a first experiment with Unity and C#, it took me approximately one week to study the basics of the game engine and to develop the actual game. Even though the concept is really simple, I plan to continue the development in the future in order to add levels and enemies and enhance the control and combat system.
Some features of Ninja2D to highlight are:
- Movement control system completely working both with mobile overlay UI and keyboard;
- Tile and scene system organized to easily build new levels without needing additional code;
- Good level of abstraction on the components and code structure;
- Fully implemented pause menu, loss menu, won level screen and end game credits;
- Attention to visual feedbacks like healthbars, camera shakes and fluid animation changes;
- Overall coherent graphic style to match the third party assets I used.
LINK: Ninja2D on GitHub
AlbertoGiudice.com
Personal CV Website, 2019
The website hosting this CV was entirely designed and developed by me from scratch, without using any template. In particular:
- The website is entirely made of pure HTML and CSS;
- Some animations and functionalities are made with JavaScript, in particular jQuery, jQuery Modal, Vanta.js and slick;
- The PDF version of the CV and portfolio is automatically generated with the print CSS.
Agenzia Le Corti online branding
Website Design & Development, 2018
I've deloped the new website of a local real estate agency with a team of other two developers. The website required a fast search engine and an integration with their management software. The technologies used to create it were Bootstrap, Javascript and PHP. In particular, the areas I mostly worked on were:
- Design of the UI and UX of the whole website;
- Development of the whole HTML and CSS structure using Bootstrap;
- Supervision on the whole project development.
Agenzia Le Corti online branding
Website Design & Development
Team Project, 2018
Agenzia Le Corti, a local real estate agency located in Lonigo (Italy), commissioned the development of their new website and their online branding to a small team that I led. The website they asked us to create is meant for showcasing the properties on sale/rent through their agency in a fancy way, with a fast and easy-to-use search function.
I personally designed the whole website's UI and UX, making changes until all the requirements from the proponent were completely satisfied. The design of the website was intended as desktop-first, as that use case is the main one at the agency's office , but it is 100% responsive in every part.
The website has been primarily made from scratch in HTML and CSS, with the usage of Bootstrap to more easily make it responsive. In order to implement all the funcionalities required from the proponent and to avoid redundance of reused HTML snippets, PHP and JavaScript have been used. In particular, we created some APIs to directly interact with the agency's management software.
Even if I focused mainly on the design and HTML+CSS structure, some key features of this website are:
- Automatically generated slideshow of featured properties, easily controllable via flags on the agency's management software;
- Easy to use search engine with pre-filled values automatically parsed from the agency's management software;
- One-page infinite loading of housing's list with no refresh required after applying search filters;
- Automatically generated URLs for every in-detail page of housings, based on the IDs assigned on the agency's management software.
LINK: Agenzia Le Corti website
References available upon request.