Overview	I have been working as a software developer since 2019. I was a Linguistics graduate (exploring syntax-semantics interface theory) in a previous life. I started coding during a brief excursion into academia.

Tools & Skills
Proficient	Go, bash, SQL, git, GNU/Linux, containers, Kubernetes, REST API, software design
Intermediate	observability, Kafka, object storage, Delta Lake, PostgreSQL
Basic	Protobuf/gRPC, Redis, system design
Actively Learning	C, Rust, systems programming, database internals

Experience
Jan/2025 - present	SDE @ EnterpriseDB (EDB)
	Building an observability and diagnostics system for Postgres clusters.
2021 - Jan/2025	Application Development Specialist @ Accenture
	I have been developing containerized services and CLI tools in Go meant to be reusable components for implementing a data mesh architecture based upon the Azure tech stack.
2020 - 2021	Application Development Senior Analyst @ Accenture
	Developed backends based on Quarkus, built and deployed to the Openshift Container Platform (OCP) via Jenkins pipelines, to manage corporate accounts for a private bank operating in Western Europe. The project allowed the client to fully digitalize the onboarding process of new customers.
	I had the chance to work in an Agile/Scrum environment for the first time.
2019 - 2020	Application Development Analyst @ Accenture
	Worked on RESTful web services based on Java and deployed to (hence) popular cloud solutions (e.g. Cloud Foundry, Amazon EC2) which served aggregated data to a dashboard for the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) division of an automotive multinational corporation in order to improve their customer support.
Mar/2019 - Jul/2019	Internship Trainee @ Accenture
	I was introduced to the fundamentals of back-end development with Java and its related tech stack, especially the Spring framework.
	I helped to build a data retention system for a telephone operator in Italy to comply with the requirements prescribed by the applicable law and regulations.
2018 - Mar/2019	Research Assistant @ Sapienza University of Rome
	I contributed to the creation of an AMR-like adjective lexicon for the MOUSSE project in the Linguistic Computing Laboratory (LCL) of the CS department of Sapienza University of Rome.
Oct/2017 - Dec/2017	Linguistic Consultant @ Babelscape
	Creation and validation of natural language training corpora for machine learning using Python to partially automate the process.

Volunteering
Sept/2017 - Oct/2017	Library Digital Curator @ Servizio Civile Nazionale
	Cataloguing and digitization of historical documents belonging to the Faculty of Arts of the Sapienza University of Rome in the project "La digital library della Sapienza. Collezione e archivi digitali".

Certifications
2021	Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) - (expired 😢)
2022	Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) - (id: LF-ja2b3qn3x6)

Education
2020 - 2021	The Linux Foundation
	I was awarded a LiFT scholarship kindly offered by The Linux Foundation providing free access to their online learning platform course catalog. I took the LFS201 course to prepare me for the LFCS exam.
	You can find my study notes here.
2015 - 2017	Sapienza University of Rome, Rome
	Master's degree, Linguistics
	semantics, lexical knowledge representation, theories of syntax, linguistic typology
2012 - 2015	Sapienza University of Rome, Rome
	Bachelor's degree, Classics
2005 - 2010	Liceo Ginnasio Immanuel Kant, Rome
	High School diploma, Classical studies (Liceo Classico)

Languages
	Italian (native)
	English (quite fluent)

Spare Time
	fiddling around with electronics kits, trying to fix/break old hardware, meticulously cultivating the bad habit of starting voluminous books and never finishing them, practicing the art of making pizza at home, being a good dad