About me
I work as Software Developer for Funambol, a mobile open source company with headquarters in Foster City, California, and development in Pavia, Italy. Currently I am working on Portal development and helping the Operations team. I’ve been working here for over 4 years now, starting as Systems Administrator and slightly moving to a pure development role – which is what I love most.
I mainly work with web-related technologies: I like programming especially with HTML/Javascript in the client side, PHP/mySQL on server side. I’ve always been fond of technology, since I received my first computer: a Commodore 64, centuries ago. Few years later, I joined the development world with my Amiga 500, and then I moved to web-related languages and mobile.
I have a passion for travelling and my very favorite destination abroad is Georgia – no, not the one with Atlanta! I fell in love with the place and went back there several times: it’s a place that stays in your heart. During my trips I love taking photos – I’ve a reflex which I can’t yet use properly, although I really like some of my pictures.
I also like going around with my bike, hanging out and playing board games with my friends, get the last tech devices that come out and, last but not least, reading books. I also did win the company’s Foosball tournament once 
And if you are wondering why Gentleman and Scholar, that’s only because a few people told me those exact words during my customer support work experience.
Contact Me
You can contact me on several social networks – just look for my name or click on the icons on top. Also, I have a Google Voice number where you can text me:
+1 (386) 227-7368 (+1-FUN-CASSENT)
Activities
On January 2002 I got the first place at the Italy’s Regional Selections for the 14th International Olympiad in Informatics, which allowed me to partecipate to the National Selections. The IOI is an international programming competition for high school students.
On March 2011 I partecipated, together with my friend Marco, to the Codefest Virtual Combat, a contest organized by the Department of Computer Engineering of Banaras Hindu University, India. The competition was a java AI programming contest based on Robocode; our team Fideeteam got the third place.
Some links
You can see my past, current and hereafter pictures on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/davidecassenti
Here you can find the map with the cities I’ve seen: there’s still a lot to see! http://vaime.org/cities
