Senior Backend Engineer based in Italy, with 8+ years building distributed, high-traffic systems in C#/.NET on Azure and AWS.
- 🤖 Shipped to production, as sole engineer, an AI document-analysis pipeline: tiered OCR, embeddings, vector search on Azure SQL and GPT-5 on Azure AI Foundry. It cut review time from over a week to 1–2 hours.
- 🎮 Scaled the backend of XCOM Legends to 100K concurrent users on AWS.
- 💎 Built messaging pipelines handling 2M messages/sec at YOOX Net-a-Porter.
- 🦀 Building Wavvon in my spare time: an open-source, federated voice and text chat platform.
- 🛠 I use AI-assisted development (Claude Code) every day.
📫 Open to full-remote backend roles in product companies — reach me on LinkedIn.
A self-hosted, federated voice and text chat platform for communities. No central servers and no accounts: identity is an Ed25519 keypair owned by the user.
| Repo | What it is |
|---|---|
| Wavvon-server | Rust hub server: Axum, PostgreSQL, WebSocket, Opus-over-UDP voice relay, federation |
| Wavvon-clients | Tauri 2 desktop client: React, TypeScript, voice, E2E-encrypted DMs |
| Wavvon-sdk-dotnet | C#/.NET 8–10 SDK for bots and apps (also in TypeScript, Python, Rust) |
| Wavvon-docs | Architecture, wire format, API spec, roadmap |
Languages & Frameworks
Cloud & Infrastructure
AI
Data & Messaging
- 🎮 Video games of every kind: strategy, sandbox, action, co-op
- 🎲 I run Meeple Bar, a Discord community for board game lovers. Come join us!
- 🎌 Anime and cartoons, still and proudly
