// Software Engineer · Rende, Italy
I have been an iOS & Flutter Engineer for 3 years, developing Swift and Flutter apps at Deloitte, including 3 e-commerce apps used by more than 3 million people. In parallel, I'm building new skills as an AI Engineer, studying deep learning and data engineering (PySpark, Databricks, GCP) with a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence underway at Unical.
3 e-commerce iOS apps for a major Italian fashion group, with respective user bases of 3M, 300K and 300K people. App cold start cut from 12s to 4s, TTL cache for the product catalog and homepage, migrated payments to backend API calls for stronger security. Store locator and a digital wallet as a payment method, with a Fastlane CI/CD pipeline for App Store releases. One of the designated code reviewers for the iOS team and mentor to 2 junior developers.
A home banking app in production, in a cross functional team of 6 developers plus tech lead, PM and external consultants. I worked on accessibility bugfixes and production issues with Flutter and Bloc in Agile sprints.
Non profit community on AI, data engineering and cybersecurity. Technical content and mentorship for talent across Southern Italy. I create technical carousels on Instagram and LinkedIn and write in depth articles on AI/ML, LLM and mobile security, deep learning, computer vision and TinyML.
My technical profile, in short:
Swift, Python, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart
SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine, Flutter, PyTorch, PySpark, Angular, Spring Boot, Firebase
MVVM, Clean Architecture, SOLID, Bloc, REST API Design
Xcode, Git, Fastlane, Docker, GitHub Actions, TestFlight
LSTM, CNN, VAE, Comet ML, Kaggle
A non profit tech community focused on AI, data engineering and cybersecurity for Southern Italy, working to keep talent local and build a tech hub in Calabria.
I am a co-founder: I take care of the technical content, with the goal of making AI understandable to everyone, of mentoring, of networking and much more.
Anti violence support app for iOS and Android, founder and solo developer. Real time chat with operators built on Firebase Firestore, map of support centers with Google Maps integration for navigation, direct call to the Italian 1522 helpline. Cross platform push notifications via Firebase Cloud Messaging.
iOS - AndroidMulti merchant loyalty points app, founder and solo developer. Multi role system, single use QR codes, analytics dashboard for merchants. Backend on Firebase (Firestore, Cloud Functions, Storage, Crashlytics), dynamic Italian/English localization without an app restart, native integrations with Siri Shortcuts on iOS and Google Assistant on Android.
iOS - AndroidSharing economy platform for university students: carpooling, marketplace, tutoring. Thesis project. Angular frontend backed by a Spring Boot REST API with a PostgreSQL database, containerized with Docker, with Esse3 single sign-on authentication.
Thesis projectA self-study repository alongside MIT's Introduction to Deep Learning course: an LSTM in PyTorch that composes Irish folk music in ABC notation, MNIST digit classification (fully connected network vs CNN), and debiasing a facial detection system with a DB-VAE. Experiments tracked with Comet ML.
github.com/salvo27/ai-engineering-labs ↗MIT's introductory course on deep learning, neural networks, RNNs and Transformers, with hands on PyTorch labs.
MIT's advanced course on deep generative models: VAEs, GANs, diffusion models and probabilistic foundations.
MIT's course on model optimization: pruning, 4-bit quantization and efficient GPU inference.
Hugging Face's hands on learning paths on NLP, Transformer models and production deployment.
Cloud platform for running and serving machine learning models in production.
Platform for running and sharing AI models through simple APIs.
Open to iOS/mobile roles now, with an eye on what's next in AI engineering.