Short Presentation
Riccardo Di Pietro was born in Messina on August 15th, 1986.
He received his Master Degree in Computer Science, his 2nd level Professional Master's Programme in "Open Source and Information Security" and his Master Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Messina (UniMe), Italy in 2013, 2014 and 2016, respectively.
From November 2016 till today he is a PhD Student in Computer Science at the University of Catania (UniCt), Italy.
From 2017 till today UniMe awarded him as Honorary Fellow (cultore della materia) in "Ingegneria del Software" (Software Engineering). [SSD ING-INF/05]
From June 2017 until now he is an IEEE Student Member (94384791) and from July of the same year he is also an IEEE Computer Society Student Member.
From November 2017 until now he is an ACM Student Member (3368174).
In July 2017 he passed the Engineer qualifying examination related for the Information Technology field with grade 178/200.
From May 2018 till today he is a Member of the National Engineers Order - Branch of Messina (Italy), Section A.
From January 2018 till today he is a Technical Officer at "CIAM - Centro Informatico Ateneo di Messina", the Computer Center at University of Messina, where he is currently engaged in development of Information Systems and Innovation, Research, Training activities.
From December 2013 to November 2016, he has been a senior developer at UniMe as a member of the Mobile and Distributed Systems Lab (MDSLab).
He worked in different R & D projects in the area of ICT, such as "Next-FFM", a R & D industrial project focused on power grids maintenance, and "SIGMA", a R & D national project focused on Cloud computing and sensor networks.
He acquired important experience in the use of Java, XML, JSON, Apache,Tomcat, Mysql, Google Maps, ForgeRock and OpenStack, Cloud technologies focused on the Identity and Object Storage Services.
He acquired significant competences in design and development of distributed systems for Cloud computing and Mobile applications based on client-server and REST API paradigms.
He has good skills in Teamwork, Team Motivation, Team Leadership, Team Management, Problem Solving, Management, Social Networking and Communication.
He was actively involved in some consulting and development activities with "Xenia Progetti" srl, "Meriodionale Impianti" srl and Finmeccanica.
He was actively involved in some teaching and seminar activities for students focused on the Arduino technologies, aimed to university courses, high school courses, summer courses, and workshops with fee in collaboration with Fablab Messina.
Schools and Training Activities
Software Projects
His activities includes the development of plugins that integrate functionalities of the OpenStack APIs and by OpenAM ForgeRock APIs. Specifically, he developed some plugins that integrate the functionalies of Openstack Identity Service API v2 (Keystone) and Openstack Object Storage API v1 (Swift) that are releted to the Cloud IaaS level. For Cloud SaaS level, he produced plugins that integrate the functionalies of simple Authentication,Identity Management and simple Authorization of OpenAM ForgeRock API. (https://github.com/clever-unime/clever-unime/wiki)
Talks
Seminars, Courses and Workshops
He was University Manager and Mentor of summer courses destinated to international undergraduate students that were organized at the department of Engineering of the University of Messina. These courses were held in collaboration with the international association B.E.S.T. Messina:
He was University Tutor of courses destinated to high school students that were organized at the Department of Engineering of the University of Messina. These courses took place within different projects called "Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro":
He was Manager and Mentor of courses destinated to undergraduate students (24 hours each) that were organized at the department of Engineering of the University of Messina. To these activities, the master's degree course in "Engineering and Computer Science - ECS" of the University of Messina has recognized a weight of 3 ECTS that can be spent by the students as a training internship.
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He was Manager and Mentor of the workshop for entry level "Le basi di Arduino" held at the Fablab Messina 16th-19th December 2015 , Messina, Italy (16 hours).
He participated as Student to the "Workshop di saldatura per circuiti elettronici: Build your own Arduino" held at the Fablab Messina 24th-26th November 2015 , Messina, Italy (12 hours).
Roles in International Conferences
For further information, please don't hesitate to contact me by e-mail at rdipietro@unime.it
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