early projects
How it started: game modding as a teenager, software a school ran on, and a university thesis with an inconvenient result.
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Graded by someone who didn't understand what I'd built
A university exam graded on usability and security, a BlaBlaCar clone built with an early MVVM framework, and the grade that revealed the professor hadn't understood what he was looking at.
My thesis: Hadoop vs. MySQL, and an honest result nobody expected
For my computer science thesis I built the same data warehouse twice — once in Hive, once in MySQL — and benchmarked them head to head. The new technology didn't win by default.
Building software my school needed
Everyone expected me to choose the liceo. I picked a technical institute for computer science instead — and spent the first two years doing accounting.
Building was always the point
From LEGO ziggurats and a 1998 Pentium to hex-editing FIFA files by hand: founding footballmatch.it, building a suite of import tools, and landing a Superpatch on an Italian magazine's cover.
