Mauro Sciancalepore, 22 yo, from Italy (BA).
BSc in Computer Science, Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro.
Currently attending a master's degree in AI.
Student and freelance developer on Fiverr.
Android, Computer Vision and C++ addicted.
Spoiler alert: I won't list all the languages and frameworks I know, that's lame! (check my LinkedIn if you need that)
Keep scrolling to know more about me and my projects!
It all started in 2010, when I got my first Android device, the almighty Samsung i5500, the cheapest Samsung device ever made!
It's useless to say that 256mb of RAM and a 600 MHz processor didn't allow you to have a great UX, even in the Android 2.1 era.
I had to do something, the nerd computer scientist that was in me, wanted to optimize that thing in some way!
I met XDA developers, the biggest Android community ever.
In 2013 I switched to a Samsung Galaxy S Advance and even if 768mb of RAM were better than 256, Android was evolving and the beloved JIT runtime was more and more hungry of resources.
The i9070 needed a refresh.
It was there, that I actively started to share my custom roms and utilities on XDA.. and I didn't imagine how powerful an online, open-source based community could've been.
I have been an unofficial Android maintainer on XDA for a couple of years (known as hastalafiesta), then my beloved PC passed out (fired CPU. That was reasonable, since it took 9+ hours to fully compile an Android 5 system. Repeat this for 3 years) and I decided to switch to app development, a way more lighter process 🙂
During those years I built strong skills in C and C++ development and still today, I have a big interest in 'low level', performance driven programming.
My passion for the Android system couldn't be over, that's why I wanted to give a shot to app development.
I self learned java programming thanks to an 'Android dev series' by TheNewBoston, a YouTube channel.
Year after year I've refined my skills, created a developer profile and realized a lot of apps, in order to explore and master Android programming.
On Fiverr is one of my most clicked gig.
I leave you with this gallery with some of my projects.
Computer Vision
Most of my Computer Vision projects have been developed for the Google Coral TPU (I own a Coral DevBoard). I have developed a distributed system where the Coral DevBoard is the server (accessible on the public internet too) that runs inferences, and a web/Android app that captures and sends the frames to it. Thanks to the TPU's high performance, the tracking is in real time, even when using a mobile internet connection (essentially the only delay is given by your ping).
I generally train my models using tensorflow + keras on Google Colab.
Below, some CV projects developed by me.
On my personal blog you can find tutorials about programming, from Android to C++ library setups / integration.