Hello!

My name is Vincenzo Chianese, I am an Italian Software developer currently working for Stoplight (based in Austin) as a full stack developer.

In my working hours I spend time trying solving problems using the appropriate technologies based on the projects’ requirements (failing every single time). During my spare time, I try to develop open source software, writing articles on topics I’m interested in, working out and partying hard (too much hard).

Despite that, I did not work always on a chair and with a laptop. In my career I’ve also worked on construction yards, where we were basically testing the control software for differend kind of machines, such as photovoltaic/wind plants.

I play the classic guitar since I was 15 years old and, like Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega, I do not have nails on right hand. That brought me a lot of problems with my teachers while studying at National Conservatory, but I was always able to win the battle.

I own a great Bernabé M-10, built in 2006
I love Spanish language. One time I was in Spain and I liked so much that language that I decided to buy a book for babies entirely in Spanish: El Principito. When I felt that was enough proficient in Spanish, I started to stop persons on the street when I was able to detect that they were talking in Spanish, and asked for small conversation.

Moreover, in order to became even more fluent, I decided to move in an shared house with 1 Spanish girl, 1 Spanish Guy, a Mexican girl and a Cuban boy, that is where I’ve been living for almost two years. On the other side, I still consider my English terrible (horroroso, por ser preciso).

During July 2015 I was in Lisbon, and I liked the language so much and decided that probably learning Portoguese would have been a good idea. I still can’t manage it properly, but I’m not that terrible.

Once Apiary was acquired by Oracle and I figured out what they had next to us, I decided to leave the Czech Republic after 3 years and relocate in Madrid, which is where I am living right now.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I travel a lot because of my job. CouchSurfing has been really helping me to get in touch with local people, hangout and make new friends.

Without such platform my travels would have been really different.

Interests

• fish
• fishing
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Radiohead

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swimming along with the Esqualo Balena (biggest fish in the world)