Mario Casciaro

Mario Casciaro is a software engineer and entrepreneur. Since he was a child he's been in love with building things, from LEGO spaceships to programs written on his Commodore 64, his first computer. When in college, he used to work more on side projects than on assignments and he published his first open source project on SourceForge back in 2006, it was around 30,000 lines of C++ code. After graduating with a master's degree in software engineering, Mario worked at IBM for a number of years, first in Rome, then in the Dublin Software Lab. He currently splits his time between Var7 Technologies—his own software company, makers of FrontendRobot.com—and his role as lead engineer at D4H Technologies where he creates software for emergency response teams. He is a big supporter of pragmatism and simplicity.