Riccardo Zaglia
Software Engineer at Sandbox VR
Padua, Veneto, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolRiccardo Zaglia is a freelance software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in VR, high-performance systems, and complex project delivery. Based in Toowoomba with roots in Italy, he has deep hands-on expertise in Rust (since 2018) and C++ (since 2016) and a long track record in VR streaming technologies dating to 2016. He is a core back-end contributor to the open-source ALVR project, having implemented ffmpeg integration, VoiceMeeter support, webserver API hygiene, and ongoing architecture and maintenance work that keeps PC-to-headset streaming robust. Riccardo has applied this niche expertise commercially for VR and automotive clients and through multiple engineering roles at Sandbox VR. He combines low-level performance tuning with practical system integrations, often adapting open-source tooling to meet bespoke product requirements. An engineer who prefers shipping reliable, maintainable systems, he also brings the rare combination of protocol-level streaming knowledge and production-focused software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Università degli Studi di Padova
Github Skills (8)
video-streaming10
c-language10
ffmpeg10
cprogramming-language10
apidoc9
api9
vulkan9
network-programming8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alvr-org/ALVR
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Stream VR games from your PC to your headset via Wi-Fi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 847 reviews, 1218 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Riccardo's contributions focused on adding features and maintaining the underlying structure of the ALVR server, which streams VR games over Wi-Fi. They implemented the beginning of the ffmpeg interface, added support for VoiceMeeter and various related changes like fixing the dashboard and adding API prefixes to the webserver. Furthermore, the user seems to be working on general code improvements and maintaining the system.
oculus-questpcvrgamesvirtual-realityheadset
zarik5/bridgevr-dev
Nov 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:44 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
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