
Lavoro2020 to today
Work
Where I’ve worked, latest first.
Francesco GuardiVenice from the Bacino di San Marcoca. 1765–75
The harbour at work.
2026 – today
Fullstack engineer
Smartness
Today I work on Smartchat: the AI that answers a hotel’s guests on WhatsApp, Booking.com and Airbnb, at any hour and in their own language.
2024 – 2026
Cofounder, senior software engineer
Builders Garden
I cofounded an AI-driven product studio. I was technical lead for our clients, ran the roadmap for our own products, and led a team of four to eight engineers.
- clients as technical lead
- 6
- products shipped in two years
- 9+
- daily players on Farville
- 5k
- cut from its infrastructure bill
- 97%
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Node.js
- OpenAI
- Redis
- Playwright
2023 – 2024
Backend developer

Previnet
A year of infrastructure. I wrote a Kubernetes operator in Go to automate how the microservices were managed, worked with Kafka, and fixed the vulnerabilities a penetration test had found.
- less manual operations work
- 90%
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Scala
- Python
2022 – 2023
Backend intern

Triskel
An internship on the backend. I built a single sign-on service in Python so that separate Java services could share one login.
- Java services behind one sign-on
- 3
- Python
- SAML
- AWS
2021 – 2022
Junior frontend developer

BusRapido
My first job on someone else’s product: the AngularJS frontend, MongoDB on AWS behind it, and the firewall in front.
- of bot traffic blocked at the firewall
- 95%
- AngularJS
- MongoDB
- AWS
2020 – 2022
Web designer and developer

Freelance
It started with websites. The first was jesolosandonabasket.it, for the local basketball team: designed in Figma, built in React, with a CMS the club could edit itself. Two more followed.
- websites, designed and built end to end
- 3
- Figma
- React
- Gatsby
- Contentful

Francesco GuardiThe Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute18th c.
The customs house, where trade came ashore.