Giacomo Tufano is a veteran software engineer and professor based in Rome with over 30 years in IT and 14 years of hands-on development experience, blending native iOS/macOS app engineering (Objective-C/Swift) with backend API and model work in Python, Go and SQL. He has led technical teams and programs at scale—rebuilding pre-sales and professional services operations at Sun and managing Sales Operations at Oracle—while also founding and running startups that shipped consumer apps and web services. As an independent developer his iOS/Mac apps have been featured in the App Store and he contributes backend expertise to projects like WFMU’s Audience Engine (Python/Django). He teaches interactive systems, AR/VR and the intersection of ML and art at Italian fine arts academies, bringing a rare mix of enterprise-grade systems thinking to creative and academic contexts. Known as an innovative change agent and strong communicator, he often drives organizational shifts and product definition in structured environments. A systems engineer comfortable from server ops to UX, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a craft-oriented approach to software.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
No degree, No degree at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
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Giacomo Tufano - Professor at Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli