About me

Hey there! I'm a Computer Scientist with plenty of experience in startups, open-source, and academia. Some facts about me: - I'm wrote an O'Reilly book called Unifying Business, Data, and Code (https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/unifying-business-data/9781098144999/). - At University of Oxford, I won two awards for the best dissertation and accompanying papers in 2022 in the area of Software Engineering - My research made a breakthrough on 40 years of space-efficient telecommunication and binary serialization technologies: https://www.jsonbinpack.org. According to research benchmarks, it is more space-efficient than 13 other popular technologies in every single tested case - I lead a London-based C++ open-source research lab called Sourcemeta providing cutting-edge JSON-related technologies: https://www.sourcemeta.com. There, I maintain a custom JSON parser, JSON binary serialization technologies, and a variety of JSON Schema related projects - I created and led a hugely popular open-source desktop application called Etcher: https://etcher.balena.io. Etcher is recommended by lots of GNU/Linux distros, and was highlighted on magazine - I own the main JSON Schema reference documentation website: https://www.learnjsonschema.com/, serving more than 7k monthly users Also check my personal website at: https://www.jviotti.com.