My name is John Salvino and I’m a freelance web developer living in Toronto!

For years I worked in corporate IT, but eventually I wanted to do something more creative so I left my job and started doing web development. I love being able to combine creativity and technology in order to help businesses succeed!

You can find some of my recent projects here.

Outside of web development, my interests include…

Photography

My main hobby is photography, and I enjoy blogging about it, here you will find my photography blog. My favourite type of photography is street photography, Toronto is a great city for that, so many diverse neighbourhoods!

I recently got back from Iceland, such a different experience from shooting in a big city, so many incredible landscape photography opportunities there, here are some photos I took while I was there.

You can see my favourite photos that I’ve taken here, and you can also see some of my photography on my Flickr and Instagram pages, feel free to follow me!

 

Music

I’ve loved music ever since I was a young kid, originally hearing my parents listening to 8-tracks on their awesome stereo, then using my allowance to purchase 45s, then albums, cassettes, CDs, MP3s, and now to streaming. It’s great living in a big city like Toronto, you have the chance to see many artists, both popular and not-so-popular.

I listen to and enjoy so many different genres of music, my music library is quite a mix, and definitely includes some guilty pleasures 🙂

You can find my music blog here.

Technology

I really enjoy using Apple products, and I’ve built up quite a collection of them over the years! I’m not someone who says one brand is better than another brand. I used to make fun of Apple many years ago, until I started using their products around 10 years ago, then I got hooked!

Productivity

I’m kind of a productivity geek, I love using various software products and services to help me be a more productive developer and computer-user in general. I will be sharing how I use these various apps and services, here you can find my blog posts on these topics.

If you are interested in finding out more about the specific things I use every day, here is a list of them.

Languages

I’m currently learning Mandarin, in 2015 I wrote the HSK levels 1 and 2 exams. I was concentrating mainly on characters at first, but have recently started taking Mandarin classes to help improve my speaking and listening skills.

I also know quite a bit of Italian and French, I did a minor in Italian in University, and took French all through high school and more recently took a couple of years of night classes. Like with Mandarin, the main thing I need to improve are my speaking and listening skills.

You can reach me at my Contact page or through the social links at the bottom of the page!