Draft:Matteo Morvillo
Matteo Morvillo | |
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 Morvillo during a public talk (2025) | |
| Born | 11 August 2007 Massa Lubrense, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Software developer |
Matteo Morvillo (born 11 August 2007) is an Italian software developer best known as the creator of the mobile application Cucinalo.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Morvillo was born in Massa Lubrense, Campania. He attends the San Paolo Polytechnic Institute in Sorrento, following the Information Technology and Telecommunications track.[1] He began programming in 2020 during Italy’s COVID-19 lockdown, creating small video games in Unity.[2]
Career
[edit]Freelance work
[edit]Specialist media report that Morvillo has contributed as a freelance developer to various web and mobile projects, including an online marketing game for the fast-food chain Jollibee.[2]
Cucinalo
[edit]In 2024 Morvillo developed Cucinalo, an app that suggests recipes based on ingredients photographed or entered by the user, using computer-vision and language-model technologies.[3][4] The app was released on 27 December 2024 under the label “Matech Studio”.[3]
Media coverage and recognition
[edit]On 30 January 2025 Morvillo and co-author Amedeo Valestra presented Cucinalo on the Rai 1 morning programme Unomattina.[5] The project has been covered by national and local outlets, including the Corriere della Sera (Cook section) and PositanoNews.[3][1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Two students from Sorrento launch "Cucinalo"". PositanoNews (in Italian). 28 December 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ a b "Teenage developer builds AI cooking app". King News Wire. 2 January 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ a b c "Cucinalo, the app that "reads" the fridge". Corriere della Sera – Cook (in Italian). 31 January 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ "Cucinalo: an Italian food-tech project". Tumblr (in Italian). 4 January 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ "Matteo Morvillo and Amedeo Valestra appear on Rai 1". Holiday Coast (in Italian). 30 January 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.