Engineer by trade, maker by nature, educator when they let me talk.
Head of Technology and AI for an italian media agency, visiting professor here and there in Italy, Haiku OS contributor.

The arc, so far:

• 2010–2015 — Cut my teeth on Java, Talend ETL, and big data when Hadoop was still a thing you had to provision by hand. Built cdh5-vagrant and, weirdly, people still use it (actually no, probably they don't).
• 2015–2018 — Fell hard for R, social network analysis, ETL and machine learning. Wrote an R package for the Facebook Graph API, but then Cambridge Analytica happened. Kaggle competitions, messy data, board gaming, good times.
• 2018–2022 — Went sideways into retrocomputing. Haiku OS, C64/6502 development, SID chip stuff. The kind of rabbit hole that starts with "just one emulator" and ends with you writing a Homebrew tap, with a pandemic in the background.
• Right now — Rust programming, Cloudflare, CICD, and the glorious intersection of 3D printing and procedural design. I write on a technical blog with a lot of automatic stuff inside by day and build Home Assistant stuff by night. Sometimes I write about physics, sometimes about social networks. The common thread is simple: I like making things explain themselves.

I listen to punk and Britpop, read science essays and sci-fi. Not necessarily in that order.

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