Valerio Mazzeo
Director at VMLabs Limited
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolValerio Mazzeo is a London-based Director and freelance Swift/iOS engineer with 13 years of experience building mobile and backend systems, spanning hands-on development, consultancy, and team leadership. He has a strong track record modernizing apps and development workflows—introducing TDD, CI/CD, automated App Store releases, and migrations from Objective-C to Swift—to boost velocity and reduce technical debt. His contributions to the RestKit open-source framework demonstrate deeper backend expertise in REST modeling and object mapping, complementing extensive work on Core Data, networking, and platform SDKs. Valerio combines systems analysis and product-focused engineering, having led and grown iOS teams while translating business requirements into technical roadmaps. He holds a computer science degree with top honors and brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to removing blockers and improving delivery.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 110/110 with distinction, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 110/110 with distinction at Università degli Studi di MessinaHigh School, Computer science, Physics, Mathematics, English, High School, Computer science, Physics, Mathematics, English at Liceo Scientifico
Italian, English
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Github Skills (17)
api-rest10
objective-c10
object-mapping10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
rest-api10
coredata10
cocoapods9
nsstring6
uitableview6
iphone6
avplayer6
memory-management6
nsdate6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
RestKit/RestKit
Aug 2014 - May 2019
RestKit is a framework for consuming and modeling RESTful web resources on iOS and OS X
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 57 commits, 38 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Valerio primarily focused on improving the core functionality of the RestKit framework. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to object mapping and search indexing, and extending the capabilities of RKObjectMappingMatcher. They also addressed issues with predicate substitution variables and made optimizations to existing code. Furthermore, the user worked on improving testing through the addition of test cases.
objective-crestfulweb-resourcesswiftios
asensei/vapor-fluent-mongo
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
Swift ORM (queries, models, relations, etc) built on MongoDB.
Contributions:39 commits, 47 PRs, 161 pushes in 3 years 8 months
relationsdrivervapor-fluent-mongoswiftvapor
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