Michele Fadda’s – Abridged bio Bit slicing all along

The views expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarily match my current employer's.

I am a serial innovator: started innovating by entering the field when it was not popular, and followed its evolution all along. If you say you are innovation focused, but you can' show that you actually did take risks in your past, and either adopted or developed innovation, you are not an innovator but a wannabe.

As a consultant, I have been involved in numerous projects in Italy, using a variety of programming languages ​​for over three decades.

I mis-spent my first 19 years, doing classical studies, stealing my father's radio books, and learning everything I could about anything vaguely digital, and learning how to program in assembler 8080A assembly by myself in 1979 by memorising its instruction set in octal. You do the math, yes, I am that old.

As a student in Milan in 1983, I began to write for technical magazines and to work as a consultant for the leading Italian companies involved in the development of firmware, including Olivetti.

At the time dealing with computers was not at all "fashionable"; it was something I did for passion. The unruly crowd did not see computing as a fashionable subject. Indeed, strange as it may seem today, taking an interest in IT meant exposing oneself to certain social disapproval (such as being classified as Nerd, which had an entirely negative connotation).

I began by being a bona fide technical journalist. I am the author of about fifty technical articles on digital electronics and programming in magazines.

I earned an MBA, Master of Business Management in 2002 with OUBS, The Open University Business School, following a Diploma in Business Studies.
I earned my MBA studying as an adult, and paying the extortionate (outside the UK) fee reserved for non UK residents, at the time.

I spent the last 12 years developing mobile applications in iOS and dabbling with back end application architectures and software architecture.

I have a keen interest in crypto technology, as I started by developing a firmware DES implementation in 8051 Assembly from scratch, in 1988, without a debugger, passing all NIST tests of the time.
My university professor, at that time thought that there was no future in Cryptography, and I should have focused on a more productive field, such as "office automation".
Bear in mind that Computer Science, Software Engineering and IT did not quite exist as an independent fields, when I started.

In the UK from September 2018, I now work and live in London.