Riccardo Arena
Software Engineer at PuntoQuindici
Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolRiccardo Arena is a versatile software engineer with 13 years of experience building front-end and simulation systems from startup to research environments in Veneto, Italy. He co-founded a tech venture and today works at PuntoQuindici, blending product-oriented engineering with hands-on implementation. His background includes research-grade work on surgical-robot simulators and hardware-in-the-loop architectures, and he has contributed front-end fixes and 3D model export features to the popular google/model-viewer open-source project. Comfortable with graphics, shaders, web technologies and full-stack tasks, he often bridges academia and industry to turn complex simulations into usable tools. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to performance optimization and his knack for making 3D and interactive experiences robust in production.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Information Tecnology, Information Tecnology at Università degli Studi di Verona
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
53reputation
3kreached
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2questions
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
web-components10
model-viewer10
gltf10
3d10
augmented-reality9
caching6
asp-net6
api6
model-view-controller6
sql6
routes6
oauth6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
google/model-viewer
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Easily display interactive 3D models on the web and in AR!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Riccardo primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, focusing on the implementation of interactive 3D models on the web. Their commits include fixes for 3DOM metallicRoughness textures, addition of model export to GLB/GLTF formats, and refactoring examples for scene-graph access. They also worked on integrating texture swapping, and adding error handling in a preview component.
webvr3d-modelswebgljavascriptwebcomponents
Puntoquindici/mind-ar-js
Mar 2023 - May 2024
Web Augmented Reality. Image Tracking, Face Tracking. Tensorflow.js
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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