About Me
Who am I
Born in Naples. Did computer science in high school, Asian Studies at L’Orientale, then moved to Japan and stayed until 2019. By the time I left I couldn’t wait to go. I was so tired of it. I lasted about a year away before I started missing it every day, and now I do. Learned the language properly, worked at a few companies there, then moved to London. Been here since, always thinking about where to go next.
What I do
Software engineer for about ten years, most of it in TypeScript, across the full stack. I’m T-shaped: I like working on UIs and whatever the user is going to interact with, but I don’t shy away from backend or devops. Telco, games, 3D open source, an NFT startup, a stroke-rehab app, a design tool, and right now British Gas. A mix of contract and permanent roles. If there’s a pattern in my career it’s that I get handed the messy part and make it look nice. Details on the Work page.
How I work now
I wish I could pretend my past experience is still the point. The last year or so of AI has changed the way I work to the point where the previous nine years feel somehow irrelevant. I keep the basics, but now I build mostly in conversation with AI. I bring the idea, I question what it suggests, I make the decisions and shape the result. I stopped asking whether it counts if I’m not typing every line. It doesn’t get there without me, and I don’t get there as fast without it. I like that.
Throw anything at me and you’ll get a better result than an LLM on its own would give you. At least until the LLM gets good enough to replace me at that too. I give myself six months.
Everything else
I have way too many hobbies for my own good. Playing music, making music, singing. Pizza, bread, cooking in general. Electronics, 3D printing, video games. Learning new things. Traveling. I’m very sociable, in spite of barely leaving the house.