Projects
HELM
A personal operating system: phone client, dashboard, voice, and scheduled routines on one Mac.
- TypeScript
- Svelte 5
- Python
- Claude Agent SDK
- Hono
- launchd
Chess Dashboard
My tournament games from Lichess and my official ratings from US Chess, reconciled on one page.
- Python
- Plotly Dash
- pandas
- Docker
- Fly.io
- GitHub Actions
We Cooked
A recipe book for a two-person household. Paste a link or a photo, Claude does the typing, you check it before it saves.
- SvelteKit
- TypeScript
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- SQLite
- Claude API
- Fly.io
Morphy
Cell tower lease analytics. Fifteen million parcels joined to tower records, two million of them filtered live in the browser.
- Python
- DuckDB
- GeoPandas
- FastAPI
- SQLAlchemy
- Svelte 5
- MapLibre GL
- DuckDB-WASM
- PMTiles
- Fly.io
Chess engine in C
A chess engine written by hand. No AI in the code. Four commits in and honest about it.
- C
Work
Xfinity Field Sales Professional · Comcast
Woodbridge, Virginia
Door to door sales for Xfinity internet and mobile. Not an engineering job. It is daily practice at explaining a technical product to someone who has thirty seconds for me, and at hearing no without taking it personally.
Software Engineer · Chessalyz
Remote
An AI chess coaching product. I built its public sharing feature end to end: the product and security spec, a Node and TypeScript backend on MongoDB, a Next.js frontend, and a test suite of 533 tests that gates fourteen privacy rules in continuous integration.
Project, two-person team · Morphy
Cell tower lease analytics. I built the whole technical side: the data pipeline, the backend, and the map app. See the case study.
Junior Quality Assurance Engineer Intern · Avast
Prague
Functional and regression testing of multilingual web and desktop releases at a security software company. My first look at how shipped software is actually checked.
Beyond code
Chess
I started playing in December 2022, online, and badly. By spring I had joined JSV Sissa, the student chess club in Groningen, and the game stopped being a phone habit and became a room full of people who would happily punish a loose pawn.
When I moved to Virginia the first thing I looked for was a club. My first game at the Arlington Chess Club was on 20 June 2025. I have been going since. In 2026 I spent six months at the US Chess Center in Silver Spring as an assistant chess teacher, which taught me more about the game than any book: you cannot explain a plan to a kid unless you understand it yourself.
I train with a coach, Grandmaster Oskar Wieczorek. In December 2025 I played the First Annual Oak Grove Open in Oak Grove, Virginia, and won the Under 1400 section with 4.5 out of 5. My rating went from 1237 to 1385 that weekend.
Two of the projects on this page exist because of chess. Chess Dashboard is where my games and ratings live. The engine in C is me finding out how the machines that beat me actually work.
Assistant Chess Teacher · US Chess Center
Silver Spring, Maryland
Taught chess to school-age kids alongside the center’s teachers, from how the pieces move to how to think about a position.
Photography
Landscapes, mostly, and whatever the sky is doing.
About
I was born in Castelfranco Veneto, a small walled town near Venice. At seven my family moved to Munich for two years, then to Lugano, in the Italian part of Switzerland, for six. I did the last three years of high school in Prague. Then five years in Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands, for a bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence, from 2020 to 2025.
I met my wife in high school in Lugano. We lost touch, found each other again during university, and I moved to the United States to be with her. We live in Virginia with our two kids.
I speak English and Italian as native languages, Spanish well, and enough Czech to order dinner and apologise for my grammar.