Andrea.Zilio.name / about

My name is Andrea Zilio, I was born in 1987 and I'm a Master student in Computer Science at University Of Padua, Italy.
I am also currently working at Google as a Software Engineer Intern.

Current Education

I spent my last year of my Master's as an Exchange Student at University Of California, Irvine where I was working with Professor Chen Li's group on the following two projects:

Query spell checker

We developed a spell checker for search engines queries that won the third prize in the Microsoft Speller Challenge Competition

iPubMed - http://ipubmed.ics.uci.edu

An instant and fuzzy search engine on MEDLINE, a popular medical pubblications database

Both projects allow me to get my hands on the research topics I'm most interested in, which are Software Design, Information Systems and Web Technologies.

Work experience

I'm currently working at Google as a Software Engineer Intern and my work experience focuses on Web Applications development, especially in the area of e-commerce websites.

During the last years I've worked as a Software Developer and Software Designer for an online bookstore and as a Software Architect designing the new version of the second italian "famous quotes" social web site.
I also am Technical Writer about web design and web development on HTML.it, the most popular italian web magazine on the topic.

Apart from experience in web technologies (XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Python, etc) I have also developed a deep knowledge of mainstream programming languages such as C++ and Java by having often adopted them in current and past projects.

My Resume

A complete review of my education, awards, projects and work experiences can be found in my resume.

My email is andrea.zilio@gmail.com but you can find more ways to get in touch with me in the contacts page.