Lorenzo Catania
Research Fellow at Università di Catania
Carlentini, Sicily, Italy
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Top SchoolLorenzo Catania is a Research Fellow in Computer Science with a decade of hands-on experience spanning multimedia encoding, real-time video streaming, cloud gaming and novel data representation paradigms. Based in Carlentini, Sicily, he combines academic rigor—PhD and high-distinction master’s degrees from Università di Catania and visiting study at University of Malta—with practical software engineering as a freelance developer and Level 2 Fiverr contractor. Lorenzo has taught and mentored across multiple university courses and industry bootcamps, and has tutored Java backend and distributed systems labs, demonstrating a talent for translating complex theory into teachable, production-ready solutions. His work bridges research and applied systems: from designing constrained-environment multimedia pipelines to building automated testing suites and full-stack services in commercial projects. Outside academia he’s an indie developer and drummer, a creative mix that informs a multidisciplinary approach to problems and a knack for rapid prototyping under real-world constraints.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science (Visiting student), Master, Computer Science (Visiting student) at University of MaltaMaster, Informatics, 110/110 e lode, Master, Informatics, 110/110 e lode at Università di Catania
Italian, English, siciliano
Github Skills (200)
kawpow10
miner10
cryptocurrency10
telegram10
lua10
c9910
monero10
encoding10
voxel-engine10
game-development10
plpgsql10
game-engine10
encoder10
telegram-bot10
crossword10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
UNICT-DMI/Telegram-UNICT-Bot
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
A Telegram Bot for University of Catania
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 2 months
telegram-botpythonbotunicttelegram
modbo-project/modbo-boilerplate
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:54 commits, 42 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
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