Davide Alberto Molin

In Electronic Arts I've been working on the upcoming Mobile version of the Origin Distribution and Social Platform

For Slots.com I developed the markup and CSS of the new landing pages (actually visibles on slots.com and slots.ca domains), from the original PSD Comps received by the design department. The CSS has been developed using SASS

For Internal development, I developed a small MVC framework for rapid Web Development and black-boxed widgets classes wrapped around jQuery plugins.

For Usatoday I developed the markup and CSS from the original Comps and chrome received by Usatoday. I then developed an entire Javascript software layer to adapt and skin the layout and content of the HTML data retrieved by an internal REST Service.
Screenshot of Usatoday development activity

PSD Comp Slicing, HTML+CSS development, Javascript Client-Side validation framework development

Slots.com beta: I’ve been dealing with Javascript development, CSS Skinning and Sprites Making

About Me

My skills

javascript
HTML / CSS
Java/JSP
PHP
SQL
photoshop
Drupal/Wordpress
SEO

Me, Myself and I

My Values

I’m a Front End Developer, with a passion for Web Standards, Javascript programming, Front End Programming in general and the World Wide Web.

I’ve been a Java Web Developer for more than 10 years and a programmer for over 15 years. I love technology, frameworks, design patterns and man-machine interactions.

My goal is to focus my efforts on Front End development (Javacript, PHP, whatever) and Web Standards (HTML4-5+, CSS-2-3+).

My YES & NO

My YES

I Love working full time on Javascript/Html/CSS
I live and work in Central London
I like balancing work and life
Yes quick stand up
Yes SCRUM
Yes let's do-it approach
Yes problem solving
Yes flat/horizontal hierarchies
Yes chats/emails
Yes good documentation vs faulty oral transmission
Yes creativity and non-linear-thinking
Yes Apple Macs & Linux

My NO

I'm not anymore interested in back-end development (unless it involves NodeJS and a mixture of FrontEnd too)
I DON'T Travel
I'm not interested in permanent opportunities.
I don't spend more than 8 hours/day at the office (but I can continue working from home).
No writing spaghetti-like code without properly written test plans
No management positions.
No endless meetings.
No huge piramidal hierarchies.
No undocumented mess.
No Agile Alliance pair-programming (it's not for me)
No MS Windows (I don't work on that).

Things I'm doing

My Vimeo Channel "Javascript Bites"

Closures for creating a clean API from Davide Molin on Vimeo.
Creating scope by Closure from Davide Molin on Vimeo.

My OpenSource Project Tash!

You can pay a visit to my github page here

"Shoot and Filter", Finalist at Mozilla Dev Derby August 2012

It's just a small rough example of how to use the Camera API to take a picture, apply some filters and save the resulting image data to the client. It was done in the last 2 evenings of the monthsThe intent here is to show how easy can be to acquire control of the camera using the Camera API and the canvas.

The code example (available for download) implements decoupled components through the use of an event based model (using the Tash! library).

You can find it here

Books I’m reading (and recent readings)

All
PHP
Javascript
HTML(4-5)/CSS(2-3)
CMS

Contact Me

Where am I

I’m living in the buzzing London, where everything happens and endless possibilities take shape everyday, like neurons in the limitless brain of the world.

Email me

For any enquiry: davide.molin-AT-gmail.com

Testimonials

August 14, 2012

Davide is one of those rare breed of web developers who keep strong engineering principles at the centre of everything they do. Always up for interesting technical challenges and looking at what's possible rather than what's "normal", Davide is a great technical expert. Working with Davide was always a pleasure. Even when the work the team had wasn't particularly challenging, he always kept a pragmatic attitude and looked to the future. I wouldn't hesitate to take the opportunity to work with him again

Kevin Lloyd, Director of Sw. Development at Time Out
Managed Davide as Director of Software Development at MindCandy
March 22, 2011

Davide is a great souce of knowledge and experience. We worked together in multiple projects and I became to admire his versatility and broad understanding. Davide is depsite all that a modest and supportive person. He takes pride in mentoring and sharing his knowledge and always makes you feel welcome when asking for help.

Juergen Biermann, Senior Product Manager Casino
worked with Davide at Riplife Gaming Technologies / Bodog Europe
March 20, 2011

Riplife 2011 Annual Assessment To have Davide coming into the team during the summer has showed to be an enormous asset to the whole UX-team. He is, as said before “the right person at the right place”. And not just for the UX-team but also for the casino team working with the Slots.com project he has been an asset and someone that have meant a great deal of added value.

Zach Fors, Creative Director at Riplife.
hired Davide as a Front End Developer in 2010
November 21, 2010

Davide was part of our in-house development team before deciding to move to Spain. Davide was a real team player and helped maintain a very good atmosphere in the development team. His positive attitude and optimistic approach were much appreciated by his colleagues and by management. Professionally, Davide masters the technologies very well and thinks creatively in order to achieve the most efficient result in the shortest time.

Top qualities: Personable, Expert, Creative

Gabriella D. Modiano, Managing Partner at Modiano & Partners
hired Davide as a IT Consultant in 2009
March 20, 2009

David is a professional high-level, one of the best with whom I had the good fortune to work in the last years.Hard geared to achieving the objectives by maintaining a high standard of quality.
His ability, experience and his personality have put me in terms to being able to delegate tasks among the most’ complex to have developed.

Key feature: for him solution's design and programming, before being a job, are a great passion.

Marco Appetito, Principal Consultant, Aubay
managed Davide at Aubay
November 28, 2007

Davide is one of the best professionals I ever known. He is competent, proactive, with both technical, graphical ad human skills. I’ve worked with him for a long period (and hope to work with him in future), with great human and professional satisfaction, still now, in our periodic meetings, he is full of new great ideas and technical innovations.

Marco Oreste Pogliaghi, team leader, aubay
managed Davide at Aubay

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