Francesco Guardi's view of Venice from the Bacino di San Marco: working boats and gondolas crowd the water in front of the Doge's Palace, under a wide, darkening blue sky.
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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%
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  • 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%
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  • 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

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%
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  • 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
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  • Figma
  • React
  • Gatsby
  • Contentful
Francesco Guardi's view of the Dogana, Venice's customs house, and the church of Santa Maria della Salute, seen across the water with gondolas passing.

Francesco GuardiThe Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute18th c.

The customs house, where trade came ashore.