Passionate developer, Giovanni started his coding adventure when he was 12 on a C64. After a short beginning in the videogames industry, he discovered Linux and the free software world, to which he dedicated his career development.
In Develer works as CTO: he is responsible for technological strategies and controls closely the architectures of the most complex projects.
Giovanni was also one of the pioneers of Python in Italy: cofounder of Associazione Python Italia, directed the organization of the PyCon Italia conference for many years; he was a member of the board of the EuroPython Society and have been directing the EuroPython organization for 3 years.
He was a member of the Digital Transformation Team of the Prime Minister for 2 years, guided by Diego Piacentini. In this period his task was to create Developers Italia (the digital public services developers community) and directing the internal team involved into products and services projecting.
Develer's CTO, Giovanni Bajo, illustrates the birth of RustLab.
Giovanni has a solid experience in Open Source and developing emulators for many HW platforms. In this talk he tells us about this experience from the early stages as a MAME contributor and what lies behind a videogame architecture, focusing on how he laid the groundwork for his Nintendo 64 emulator in Rust project.
RustLab is a conference made by Develer.
Develer is a company based in Campi Bisenzio, near Florence. Our motto is : "Technology to give life to your products". We produce hardware and software to create exceptional products and to improve industrial processes and people's well being.
In Develer we have passion for the new technologies and we offer our clients effective solutions that are also efficient, simple and safe for the end users. We also believe in a friendly and welcoming environment where anybody can give their contribution. This passion and this vision are what we've been driven to organize our conference "made by developers for developers".
