Work Experience

2024-10 - Present: 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

  • Development of core libraries

  • Testing core libraries

  • API testing

  • Some React with Remix

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, 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, Constitutionaland Cassation Court project for automated legal documents parsing, data extraction, analysis and Akoma Ntoso markup for Italy’s legislative and judiciary documents

  • Formex2AKN: project for automated conversion of legal and judiciary documents from EU’s EurLex and CELLAR’s fmx4 to Akoma Ntoso xml

  • SANKOFA: Challenge for the United Nations: machine learning-based data analysis and extraction, markup and conversion of UN’s resolutions into Akoma Ntoso xml, for text classification and ontology extraction (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.