📍 Milano, Italy | 🎯 Engineering Leader | ⚙️ FP · Backend · Systems
Engineering leader with FP roots. Learning in public by building in typed languages.
- 🧭 PathMates — a group-travel companion for planning multi-stop trips together. Flutter · Rust · PostgreSQL. Early access preview — sign up and try it out, but expect rough edges. Feedback welcome!
- 👔 A wardrobe app — AI-assisted outfit and wardrobe management. Work in progress, stealth.
- Functional programming roots — 10+ years in the Scala FP ecosystem
- Type-driven design — make illegal states unrepresentable
- Polyglot by curiosity — Scala, Rust, Kotlin, TypeScript, Flutter
- AI-augmented workflow — Claude Code and Codex for orchestration, humans for judgment
- Ship small, ship often — keep the feedback loop tight
AI tooling — claude-token-saver, a Claude Code plugin that configures token-efficient rules to reduce context usage.
Contributions to the Scala functional programming ecosystem — cats, http4s, doobie, tapir, skunk, natchez — plus small original repos like monix-newtypes-cats, deeplearning-example, and kafka-starter.
Co-founder & organizer of Functional Fest, the Italian functional programming conference (2019–2021). Curated the speaker lineup and moderated live technical sessions with national and international FP experts. Recordings on YouTube.
Speaker — F(un) & P(rofit) in Scala, Scala Italy, October 2021
Manuscript reviewer for Manning Publications (since 2018).
Google Summer of Code mentor (2014) — guided an open source contributor on a Java project funded by Google.
Types keep me honest. AI keeps me fast.