Gianluca Rotondo

Web Developer

He was born in Benevento (Italy) on 22 February 1971 and had his first IT experience in the 80s on the Commodore VIC-20 home computer before moving on to the Commodore 64, the Amiga and finally x86-family PCs. From that period on, he has enthusiastically continued his self-taught studies, using various programming languages like Basic, dBase, Assembly and C as well as developing and experimenting with different types of software, from management suites to simple videogames, from hacking techniques to audio-visual presentations (Demoscene).

At the same time, in those years, he cultivated his enthusiasm for sport, practising handball at amateur level, and video games too. This latter enthusiasm persists today, ranging over different genres, especially RPG and strategy games but also FPS and sports games.

In the 90s his emerging creativity shifted his interest to communicative and emotional representation involving music and design.
He studied piano and guitar and devoted himself to composing songs both for his own satisfaction and those aimed at professional experience in the world of videogames. He listened mostly to rock music and heavy metal, genres that reflected at that time his own way of making music and his own passionate and unconventional way of presenting himself to the world.

In 1991 he obtained a high school diploma in Accounting and Business from the G. Alberti Technical and Business Institute in Benevento.

In the same period, he devoted himself to the study of communication techniques and the use of software for the development of advertising designs. He put into practice various techniques for printed and audio-visual media, ranging from digital retouching to digital composition and from video editing to 3D graphics, both static and animated. Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia FreeHand, Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, NewTek Lightwave 3D and Adobe After Effects software became his bread and butter.

His curiosity and interest in the rapid technological development of those years led him to devote himself to consulting, assembling and optimisation of hardware/software solutions for workstations and servers.

At the end of the 90s, he discovered what would become his main enthusiasm and professional activity up till now: the Internet.
His previous experience helped him to adapt easily to this new media. Web design became his new specialisation that he developed in subsequent years.

In the 2000s his ever-deepening passion for music and videogames made them irreplaceable in his life. His musical interests broadened, embracing a taste for listening to blues and jazz with diversions into Western and Asian pop as well as classical music and opera.

His passion for cinema, and in particular as a lover of thrillers, horror and crime films, both contemporary and historical, started in those years. As did his taste for the best American TV series. His enthusiasms also extended from time to time to strategy board games with self-painted miniature figures.

From the mid-2000s his specialisation moved from Web design to Web development, resuming his past interest in programming. He studied the PHP language and relational databases, in particular MySql, as well as studying HTML, advanced JavaScript and related frameworks such as jQuery and jQueryUI.
This has been his main professional activity ever since.

In recent times, as well as the Web, he has been developing software for mobile devices, smartphones and tablets, both for the perfect extension of Internet services and promotional objects, and for the design of user interfaces.

Download here his complete Curriculum Vitae.