Available for select projects · Turin / Remote

Backend engineer for ambitious AI products.

I build the systems
behind the magic.

From first API call to production scale—reliable backends, AI agents, and data systems that do useful work.

SEE
THE WORK
8+years shipping
production systems
TOP 3%globally vetted
Toptal talent
25+internal products
delivered
30×best measured
speed improvement

Make AI useful.
Make systems last.

I help teams turn ambitious product ideas into calm, dependable software.

The interesting work lives between the demo and the real world: architecture choices, messy data, graceful failure, observability, and speed. That’s where I’m most useful.

AI AGENTS & LLMsBACKEND ARCHITECTUREDATA & PERFORMANCEPRODUCT DELIVERY

Proof, not promises.

Production systems with outcomes you can measure.

01

AI · SALES OPERATIONS

An agent that turns noisy leads into sales-ready conversations.

A multi-LLM qualification system using OpenAI and Claude, connected directly to the CRM. It scores, explains, and routes high-potential leads without adding another inbox for the team.

OpenAIClaudeNode.jsPostgreSQL
~70%less manual qualification
02

AI · CONSUMER PRODUCT

A travel planner that goes from idea to itinerary in seconds.

Travel Junior creates complete, personalized trip plans with Google Gemini. The production app pairs a focused planning experience with a Fastify backend built to serve real travelers.

GeminiFastifyTypeScriptFly.io
Visit live product
LIVEproduct in production
03

DATA · PERFORMANCE

Thirty million records. Two-second answers.

A redesigned indexing and aggregation strategy brought critical time-series queries down from a full minute to two seconds—without hiding the problem behind more infrastructure.

MongoDBPostgreSQLPrismaPerformance
30×faster data retrieval
“He improved the previous Node.js codebase and made it run nearly 20× faster.

— Upwork client · Query optimization project

Eight years,
still curious.

Building across AI, payments, travel, telecom, operations, and developer infrastructure.

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2023—NOW

Team Lead, Node.js

Toptal clientAI qualification systems, payment infrastructure, and 25+ internal products across operations and sales.

2022—2023

Node.js Engineer

Upwork · Top RatedTwo MVP backends built from zero, complex integrations, and a 30× database performance improvement.

2021—2022

Full-Stack Developer

Spindox · Vodafone ItalyProduction services, CI/CD pipelines, and observability with Grafana and Prometheus.
EDUCATION

MSc Computer Engineering · Politecnico di Torino
BSc Software Engineering · NUST

Have a hard
problem?

Tell me what you’re building, where it’s stuck, and what success looks like. I’ll reply with a clear next step.

LET’S TALK