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Chapter 1

Work

I've been a developer since 2013. I started with websites, then came the apps: iOS, Android and now visionOS too. I've worked in healthcare, finance and fashion, on my own and in international teams, almost always remotely and always with a call on the calendar.

Since 2013

$ whoami

francesco-rho · web and mobile developer

$ uptime

since 2013

“Can you hear me? I'm sharing my screen…”

$ cd ~/work/who-with # 1.1

Who I work with

These days I work with two companies that couldn't be more different.

  • Digital studio · Milan and Bergamo

    Becreatives

    From idea to product.

    “Here you start from a blank page.”

  • Bechtle Group · Apple partner

    Magnetic Media Network

    Over 35 years in IT.

    “Here there's no blank page: there are systems that have to work every morning.”

$ ls ~/work/projects # 1.2

What I've built

Sectors and kinds of work. Client and project names stay out, by contract.

  • iOS · Android

    Healthcare

    Telemedicine: video visits with doctors and specialists, medical records, vital signs read from Apple Health and Bluetooth devices. And medical monitoring even where a doctor physically can't be.

  • iOS · Web

    Finance

    Digital wallets that live in Apple Wallet, payments at partner stores, sales portals inside online banking. Software where a mistake costs real money, so you check twice.

  • visionOS

    Fashion

    Immersive experiences on Apple Vision Pro: runway shows seen as if from the front row, and a brand's history to explore.

  • Full-stack

    Web

    Websites, e-commerce, company dashboards, online questionnaires. My daily bread, from 2013 to today.

$ cat beyond-the-code.md # 1.3

Beyond the code

Now that AI writes code too, everything else matters more and more.

Comic page

  • I can stare at the same bug for hours. I don't let go until it's fixed.
  • I'm good with people…
  • Years of calls in English with teams abroad…

$ cat ~/.config/tools # 1.4

Tools and degree

Tools

languages
Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS
frameworks
SwiftUI, RealityKit, React Native, React, Node.js, MVVM, Clean Architecture
tools
Git, CI/CD, REST API, AWS, Firebase, NoSQL, App Store, Google Play, Scrum

Degree

Computer Engineering

University of Bergamo · [year]

$ git log --reverse # 1.5

Early days

2013–2016

Episode 0 · 2013–2016

Before the apps, there were websites.

  1. 2013

    The website of a non-profit that teaches kids about digital tools.

  2. 2014

    The website of a law firm.

  3. 2015

    An iOS app for patient questionnaires in a hospital.

  4. 2016

    An Android app with a PHP backend to run an industrial assembly line.