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Work Experience

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

Backend & stuff.

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

Development of Web3 applications; microservice back-end; junior mentoring.

  • Sr. Software Engineer in the backend team
  • Rewriting the backend from FastAPI and Flask to Django

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

Development of LLM based applications; microservice back-end.

  • Sr. Software Engineer in the LLM team
  • Developed a bunch with FastAPI, AWS, PostgreSQL and Redis
  • Proudly re-engineered the entire architecture of the LLM service to make it run on 100mb of RAM

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

Development of eHealth applications based on the FHIR standard; coaching and mentoring Jr. developers.

  • Development of FastAPI and Django FHIR server
  • Development of FHIR-search engine
  • Development of core FHIR libraries
  • Unit testing and integration testing
  • Development and design of product architecture
  • Docker & co.
  • Managing PostgreSQL
  • Managing Neo4j
  • Celery

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

Project management; supervision of product development; partner engagement. Coding like there's no tomorrow.

Main activities managed, supervised or developed:

  • Development of data aggregators for legal knowledge
  • Development of data parsers for legal documents
  • Development of core libraries
  • Development of Django REST APIs
  • Development of microservices with FastAPI
  • Managing PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, Redis
  • Development of FTS engine
  • Development of NLP tools for legal language
  • Data mining of legal knowledge
  • Development of custom DLT and web3 solutions
  • Testing core libraries
  • API testing
  • Some React with Remix

Singling out technologies and supervising development of legal automation tools for law firms and companies.

2019-11-01 – 2021-10-30: Research Associate, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) Early Stage Researcher (ESR) Doctoral student in the
Law, Science and Technology Joint Doctorate – Rights of Internet of Everything (LAST-JD-RIoE)
(Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions Innovative Training Network European Joint Doctorate) program,
researching the topic: DLTs beyond financial applications: eDemocracy and new forms of governance.

  • Researching DLTs from a legal philosophy perspective
  • Lecturing on DLTs and web3
  • Developing web3 apps for research and experimenting purposes

2018-10-01 – 2019-09-30: Research Associate / Python Developer, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy

Development of API infrastructure with Django and Flask.
Legal documents automated analysis, parsing and XML structuring in various projects such as:

  • LexDatafication: Italian Government’s Cabinet, State Mint, Constitutional and Cassation Court
  • Formex2AKN: EU legal document converter from EurLex and CELLAR’s fmx4 to Akoma Ntoso XML
  • SANKOFA (UN Challenge): ML-based analysis and ontology extraction from UN resolutions (1st place)
  • Lecturer on DLTs and web3

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

Legal advice and assistance in criminal, civil and administrative law.

2015-05-30 – 2016-06-29: Board Member, Mondo Mangione Social Cooperative, Siena, Italy

Board member of a social cooperative, legal advisor, and internal auditing.