About Me

I'm a Software Developer with an obsession for Python and backend development.

I originally trained as a jurist — got myself a fancy degree in criminal law (summa cum laude, no less) — but I’ve been programming since I was 13 and pretty much coded my way through Law School.

After graduation, I started working at a law firm while pursuing a specialization degree in legal professions to become a judge.

Did that happen? Hell no. I got the degree, sure, but somewhere along the way I became completely obsessed with automating everything I could get my hands on.

Programming slowly took over my life at the law firm, until I managed to hop onto a legal tech project for a year.
That opened the door to a role as a research associate in legal informatics at the University of Bologna, working with a team of computer scientists and lawyers.

I got to blend my legal background and programming skills to build some pretty cool stuff for the Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, Parliament, and other high-profile institutions.

While I was at it, I picked up Solidity and built a few DApps on Ethereum, getting cozy with Web3, IPFS, Truffle, and the rest of the gang.

On the side, I co-founded a legal tech startup and built all sorts of fun stuff — until we hit a government blockade (long story; one day I’ll sue them).

Somewhere in that whirlwind, I landed a fancy Marie-Curie PhD scholarship in legal informatics, focused on Blockchain/DLTs and new forms of governance.
That brought me to beautiful Vienna, and yep — even more Web3.

Academia was a trip (/s), but I made what might be the best decision of my life: I dropped out of the PhD and jumped back into the legal tech industry.

Then life happened. In 2022, I shifted into the eHealth sector, which was a fantastic ride and taught me A LOT about QA.

And then — surprise! — life happened again. I jumped on the LLM wagon in the commercial insurance world, working as a Senior Backend Developer.

And now? Well, life did its thing one more time, and I’m back in the world of Web3 and DLTs, knee-deep in AML and KYC, leading backend development for a very cool product.