Alberto Cappellina

Senior Mobile Engineer | Secure Fintech & Digital Identity Apps | Flutter/Android | Tech Lead

📧 alberto.cappellina@gmail.com 🔗 LinkedIn

Profile

One of the rare mobile engineers who combines deep mobile security in regulated environments (SPID digital identity, fintech) with technical leadership and modern Flutter delivery. Senior Mobile Engineer with 15+ years of experience delivering Android and Flutter applications for fintech, digital identity, IoT, tourism, and enterprise clients. Specialized in secure mobile architectures, authentication flows, biometrics, NFC, secure storage, certificate pinning, app hardening, and complex backend/API integrations. Experienced technical lead coordinating external teams and delivering production applications in regulated environments. Recently focused on AI agents, LLM integration, and Spec-Driven Development to accelerate product delivery.

Core Skills

Mobile Engineering

Flutter Dart Android Kotlin Java Jetpack Jetpack Compose REST API Integration

Mobile Security

OAuth2 OpenID Connect Biometrics Secure Storage Certificate Pinning App Hardening Obfuscation Integrity Checks Secure SDLC

AI & Automation

LLM Integration AI Agents AI Evaluation LangGraph Claude Cursor Python Scripting

System Integration

NFC OCR Bluetooth WiFi IoT Backend/API Integration

Engineering Methods

Spec-Driven Development Technical Leadership CI/CD Git Docker

Security Tools

Kali Linux Nmap Training CSSLP (ISC²)

Experience

Senior Mobile Developer — Intesys

2017 – Present · Verona

Secure enterprise and fintech mobile app development, with responsibility for architecture, delivery, integrations, and technical leadership across internal and external teams.

TIM · Digital Identity — Contributed to digital identity and secure onboarding flows involving NFC document reading, secure storage, obfuscation, certificate pinning, runtime integrity controls, and mobile app hardening.
Repas · Meal Voucher Management — Led a 5-person team delivering secure mobile features for a digital meal voucher platform, including RSA signature, OTP, biometric authentication, and backend/API integration.
Namirial · SPID / Digital Identity — Contributed to digital identity and document verification flows involving NFC, secure storage, obfuscation, certificate pinning, runtime integrity controls, and mobile app hardening.
Santander · Fintech — Led 2 external developers on a loan management application with strong authentication flows, OTP, biometrics, secure API integration, and regulated fintech requirements.
Dolomiti Superski — Technical lead for production mobile applications in the sports and tourism domain, coordinating 2 external developers and contributing to tracking, integration, and user-facing mobile features.

Senior Android Developer (Freelance) — NTNext

2011 – 2017

Delivered Android applications and IoT solutions for connected appliance brands including Candy and Hoover.
Integrated device communication flows using WiFi, NFC, Bluetooth, and backend services.

iOS Developer — Kipcast

2009 – 2011

Developed iOS editorial applications for major Italian publishers including Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta dello Sport.

J2EE Frontend Developer — Accenture Technology Solutions

2007 – 2008

Worked on J2EE frontend development for Generali Insurance Group, contributing to enterprise web application delivery.

Education & Training

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Università di Verona

Training

Training CSSLP (ISC²)

Courses

Machine Learning A-Z — Udemy
Project Management Course — Udemy

Languages

Selected Personal Projects

Animale Perso — animaleperso.it — Mobile-first web app that helps pet owners create a complete lost-pet alert in under a minute, generating printable A4 flyers, social media images, QR codes, and a shareable public page without registration.
Monthly bank report — Personal finance tool that imports monthly bank transaction files and transforms them into structured spending reports, with expense categorization, recurring payment detection, and monthly insights.
Call Inspector Bot — Telegram bot that investigates unknown phone numbers and provides a concise risk assessment, combining the Brave Search API with collected signals to flag suspicious or unwanted callers.
Cat Food Price Watcher — Telegram bot that scrapes cat food prices from an e-commerce site and sends a daily price digest, tracking day-over-day changes and a rolling 10-day low/high via the Telegram Bot API.
TaxDocs Inbox — Next.js/TypeScript app that turns a Telegram bot into an automated tax-document intake and organization pipeline (Dropbox + Postgres), with an admin dashboard for document types, categories, and audit logs.
SushiWise — sushiwise.it — Bilingual, mobile-first web calculator for estimating calories consumed during an all-you-can-eat sushi meal, featuring a curated 50-item food dataset, real-time calorie ranges, localized SEO content, result sharing, and privacy-friendly analytics.
Commute Monitoring — PHP/MySQL tool that watches real-time drive duration via Google Maps Routes API during a configurable departure window, compares it against a self-learned historical baseline, and sends a single Telegram alert when traffic delay exceeds threshold — built to run on legacy PHP 5.6 shared hosting via cron.
Uptime Me — Personal wellbeing tracker that scores each day 0–100 across four dimensions (energy, sleep, stress, mood), with a mobile-first check-in form, a 30-day trend dashboard with automatic tag insights, a guided Telegram bot for check-ins, and configurable daily reminders.
PetCare — Personal health tracker for three cats that logs vet visits, vaccines, and recurring treatments, auto-scheduling the next occurrence on completion at a configurable interval, with a dashboard for upcoming deadlines and daily Telegram and email reminders.
WeatherGuard — Personal weather-risk monitoring tool that periodically checks local forecasts, detects relevant changes in risk conditions such as storms, wind, rain, temperature peaks, or forecast shifts, and sends concise Telegram alerts only when thresholds are exceeded, with a lightweight dashboard for checks, cron runs, logs, and notification history.
Cappe’s Podcast — Personal podcast-feed generator that turns uploaded audio files and OpenAI-generated Italian TTS episodes into a private RSS feed compatible with Pocket Casts, with a lightweight dashboard for media management, pending audio review, orphan-file detection, and manual publication.
Trend Spotter — Personal market-research tool that analyzes search trends and emerging user needs every week, transforming weak signals into structured insights and potential SaaS opportunities for further validation.
Current Energy — Personal energy monitor that ingests MQTT telemetry from a Silla Prism EV charger to track whole-house grid draw every 10 seconds, with a Raspberry Pi keeping the raw CSV as source of truth and pushing samples outbound to a password-protected PHP dashboard with tariff-band breakdown — no database, no inbound ports, no recurring cost.
Career Radar — AI-powered career intelligence tool that evaluates job opportunities against a candidate’s skills, experience and career goals. Provides structured job matching, fit scoring, skills gap analysis and application tracking to support data-driven career decisions.