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Work Experience

2025-03 – Present: Lead Backend Engineer, Keyring.network

Back in the Web3 trenches, this time leading the backend.

  • Leading architecture and implementation of a Django-based API monolith for zero-knowledge regulatory infra.
  • Deep integration with Redis, PostgreSQL, Celery, S3, ClamAV, OpenTelemetry, and Pyroscope.
  • Obsessed with keeping the code clean, fully tested and fully typed.
  • Keeping the dev team sane (or at least synced).

2024-10 – 2025-02: Senior Backend Engineer, Keyring.network

Building backend infrastructure for Web3 compliance tools. Took a messy API jungle and did some pruning.

  • Rewrote core backend from spaghetti (FastAPI + Flask) to clean, scalable Django.
  • Introduced structured logging and tracing, and led the adoption of Celery, Redis, and PostgreSQL.
  • Mentored junior devs and onboarded newcomers to our tech stack.

2024-04 – 2024-09: Senior Backend Engineer, Cytora

LLMs in insurance. A wild ride through embeddings and low-latency systems.

  • Core developer in the LLM team.
  • Rebuilt the entire LLM service to run efficiently in under 100MB RAM (not a joke).
  • Shipped and maintained microservices with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS Lambda, and SQS.

2022-12 – 2024-03: Senior Backend Developer, Black Tusk GmbH, Vienna, Austria

eHealth apps built on the FHIR standard. Heavy on backend design, even heavier on quality.

  • Developed production-grade FHIR servers with Django and FastAPI.
  • Built custom FHIR Search engines and core libraries.
  • Unit + integration test coverage was a religion.
  • Juggling Docker, Celery, PostgreSQL, Neo4j.

2019-07 – 2022-11: Senior Python Developer, Law Engineering Systems

Legal tech from the ground up. Data pipelines, NLP, and infrastructure design.

  • Built aggregators and parsers for legal documents.
  • Designed REST APIs with Django REST and microservices with FastAPI.
  • Managed PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Arango DB, Elasticsearch, MeiliSearch, Redis.
  • Built FTS engines, NLP tools for legalese, and custom DLT/Web3 solutions.
  • Occasionally wrote React with Remix, regretted nothing.

Chose tech stacks and guided the development of automation tools for law firms and companies.

2019-11 – 2021-10: Research Associate, University of Vienna, Austria

Marie-Curie PhD fellow in legal informatics (spoiler: I dropped out — best choice I ever made).

  • Research on DLTs, governance, and eDemocracy.
  • Taught classes on Web3 tech.
  • Built experimental dApps for academic use.

2018-10 – 2019-09: Research Associate / Python Developer, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy

Built APIs, parsed legislation, and structured documents into XML like it was going out of style.

Projects:

  • LexDatafication (for Supreme Courts, Parliament, etc.)
  • Formex2AKN (EU FMX to Akoma Ntoso converter)
  • SANKOFA (UN Challenge): 1st place. Ontology extraction from UN resolutions.
  • Lectured on Web3 and DLTs.

2015-10 – 2016-07: Lawyer Trainee, Studio Mecacci Law Firm, Siena, Italy

Criminal, civil, administrative law. Paper cuts and dusty files. You know the vibe.

2015-05 – 2016-06: Board Member, Mondo Mangione Social Cooperative, Siena, Italy

Legal advisor, internal auditing, and governance duties for a social coop. First taste of non-hierarchical organizing.