Giovanni Astarita

I created the logic behind the Back-Office of www.italysharetours.com, a guided tours reservations platform. It allows the user to manage reservations and groups and search them: he can furthemore use basic CMS features such as loading pictures relating attractions or tours, edit their text. It is even possible to set preferences and custom metatags or SEO keywords. It has been developed using mostly PHP 5.3, then JavaScript and MySQL.

I created a plug-in for Thermostat (http://icedtea.classpath.org/thermostat). My work was to develop a Java validator that allows the software to validate the XML definition file of a new plug-in against the schema. At the end I developed a draft of an Eclipse plug-in, whose aim was to write automatically the XML file to create a new plug-in. I used Equinox implementation of OSGi specifications, Maven, Jenkins and Mercurial tools in an international and distributed team applying Scrum framework.

I tested the Picasso Platform, Vodafone International's CMS with a training on Oracle's UCM and WLP in an international environment.

Erasmus Placement at Red Hat Munich (February-August 2013) as Software Engineer. Thesis title: "The Thermostat Project: the Validator Extension and the Eclipse Plug-in"