software engineer who takes things apart for a living.

Born in Taranto, on the Ionian coast, and working in CET — which lands me inside the working day for most of Europe.

The shape of a day: coffee, work, the gym — never skip a leg day — dinner, then whatever side project is currently open.

Things break in production. That isn't the interesting part — the interesting part is how long they stay broken, and whether the same thing breaks again next month.

Knowing whose fault it was has never made a fix land any sooner. Sort it, write down what happened so it doesn't happen twice, get on with it. You win as a team.

I've been writing code since 2013 — Android apps first, then C++ through high school. Before that I was already taking things apart: decompiling Android APKs, poking through Minecraft mods, anything I could get inside.

It was never about building something. It was about finding out how the thing in front of me had been built.

Most evenings end in Procreate. Mostly tattoo designs — flash sheets, lettering, things people might actually wear.

It's the opposite motion to the day job, and I think that's the point: nothing to take apart, nothing to debug, just a line that either works or doesn't.

Node, PHP, and Python services behind an API boundary, Docker underneath. Small pieces are easier to build and test — including across teams sharing the same repo — and if one goes down, the rest stay up.

The opinion that puts me in the minority: hygiene matters more than the framework — submodules done properly, a directory layout that doesn't need relearning, .env files that never touch git, devcontainers when they've earned it.