Matteo Vaccari — Matteo Vaccari

It is possible to write software that solves real business problems, cheaply and reliably. The recipe is well known, even though it's not easy to do.

I am an Extreme Programmer. I help individuals, teams and organization become more effective. I'm lucky to work as a developer for ThoughtWorks, mostly in the Milano area. I used to teach at Università dell'Insubria.

Current stuff

Twitter: @xpmatteo
Github repositories. You might be interested in the Birthday Greetings Kata, or the Open-Closed Principle Dojo. Or see how to do a frameworkless REST service.
My old Blog, and my newer stuff on Medium.
My presentations at various conferences.
A list of Italian XP User Groups and related communities.
I co-organize the Agile Coach Camp Italy.
I am a member of the Italian Agile Movement, and I helped organize several editions of the Italian Agile Day.
Me on Linkedin.

Older stuff

An unfinished book on TDD for Android, in collaboration with Carlo Bellettini.
Web Applications course (taught from 2003 to 2015)
Internet Technology and Applications course (taught from 2009 to 2013)
Operating Systems course (taught from 2000 to 2006)
My Ph.D. thesis on Calculational Derivation of Circuits

His approach seemed to me to consist of unafraid hard thinking, intuition, and no great reliance on advanced mathematics. This was inspiring to lesser mortals. He attacked problems directly, with whatever skills he had at his commands, and often they worked. He gave you the sense (perhaps misguided) that you could discover deep truths with whatever skills you had, too, if you were willing to think hard. He was guided by his great economics intuition; though his mathematical skills were unexceptional, his instinct was strong, and he was tenacious in trying to attain insight before resorting to mathematics.

Emanuel Derman, My Life as a Quant