Hi, I’m Alessandro Toschi, class ‘95, a software engineer from Italy 🇮🇹.

Passionate about graphics✨, rendering🎨, media processing (images/videos)🌆🎥, and a pinch of ML (CoreML) 🤖. I specialize in the Apple ecosystem (iOS, macOS), utilizing Metal, AVFoundation, CoreImage, and Accelerate.

My priority? Performance first: I aim to squeeze every bit of potential from the device by maximizing the use of CPU, GPU, and neural engines!

📱iOS Software Engineer @ Plexagon

**Clay

G**raphic design and multimedia editor for iOS, macOS, iPadOS.

📅 Nov 2021 – Dec 2023 📍Milan, Italy

Lead software engineer of the custom rendering and graphic engine of Clay:

• Image/video processing using custom shaders written in Metal.
• Video encoding/decoding (H264, H265) using AVFoundation (iOS), and FFMPEG.
• 2D geometry and transforms for custom gestures.
• 2D animations and text animations.
• Timeline controls and gestures.
• UIKit, SwiftUI, and Flutter (custom Flutter Engine fork - C++).
• Swift, Objective-C, and Dart.
• Firebase: Remote Config, Storage, Firestore, A/B Test, Authentication, and Analytics.
• Remote synchronization and file system management.
• Remote content: templates, collections, and editor assets are configurable from remote and served through a CDN (BunnyCDN).
• Onboarding, paywalls, and feature flags.
• Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions for delivering preview builds of Clay.