About

I started with computers the practical way. As a teenager I repaired them, built websites and gave private lessons; from 2012 I took on more serious freelance work, and in 2015 I signed my first company contract, as an IT technician.

I have built software professionally since 2016, when I joined SUPSI, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, first as an assistant during my Master’s and later as a researcher at its Information Systems and Networking Institute. I was the primary software engineer on several research projects: data pipelines and machine-learning models for studying social bots and disinformation on Twitter, an IoT crowd-sensing framework and a privacy-awareness app. That work produced the papers listed below, in venues such as ACM Web Science, AAAI ICWSM and Pervasive and Mobile Computing.

Then came startups. At E2BS I built an energy-monitoring system that linked wind-turbine operations with crypto mining. I co-founded Pepper, a platform that let gamers earn crypto by playing, and Rubicon Studio, where I architected web3 infrastructure and smart contracts for asset-tokenisation projects.

In July 2024 I co-founded Sartiq (formerly Shootify) in Lugano with Luca Ambrosini and Andrea Ravano, and I am its CTO. Sartiq turns still-life product photos into on-model e-commerce imagery for fashion brands including OVS and Guess, and raised a CHF 2.1M pre-seed round led by Founderful in 2025.

I built the platform from the first line of code. It started as research: I implemented virtual try-on papers, fine-tuned models, built complex image-generation workflows, and set up the backend, the frontend and a compute service that spread the work across several GPU machines. When the company moved from its own models to model APIs, the platform became a production system built on them. I hired the tech team I lead today, built the agentic generation pipeline that now runs the company’s main production automation, and brought AI agents into our daily engineering and operations. I am still hands-on in nearly every main part of the technology.

Outside the company I design and run an AI platform at home: my own firewall, a 10 GbE core network, NAS storage, observability and alerting, local language and vision models, and AI agents that help operate it. It is where I benchmark open models and build HAVEN, a private voice assistant for my home.

What ties it together is measurement. I like evaluation sets, paired comparisons, test suites that stay green, and claims that come with their evidence.

Education

• MSc Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (Networked Internet of Things), SUPSI, 2016 – 2020
• BSc Computer Science (Computer Engineering), SUPSI, 2013 – 2016