I build the technical layer between an idea and a real product.

I got into this the unglamorous way. I was studying informatics and technology in high school in Italy when, in 2012, a friend and I got our hands on a private game server's files and decided to run our own. It wasn't a school project, it was two teenagers in over their heads, suddenly responsible for a server with thousands of real players on it. No formal training, no one to call when something broke, just a massive SQL database, our own queries and triggers, and a website we had to build ourselves to keep it all running. That's where the habit started: dig until you actually understand why something is broken, then fix it properly, because with real people online, "good enough" wasn't good enough.

I kept building on the side through a string of unrelated day jobs, self-taught the whole way, until I went freelance in 2021, first on Fiverr and Upwork, then onto longer engagements as the projects (and the trust) got bigger, including one client relationship that ran close to two years. Five years in, the thing that's stayed constant is the reason I went independent in the first place: I wanted control over quality and scope that a regular job doesn't give you. I'd rather turn down a project than ship something I know is fragile.