For a long time, I struggled to describe what I do. Every definition seemed to capture only part of it.
I began by studying Electronic Engineering before moving into Environmental Sciences. I later graduated in Analysis and Management of Marine Environments and completed a second-level Master's degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
At the time, I was convinced my future would be in research. While working on projects developed with ENEA and, later, with CNR and the Sicilian Regional Government, I discovered something that would stay with me long after I left the worlds of cartography and environmental science.
I found myself fascinated by a simple question: How can large amounts of information be organized so they become genuinely useful to people?
Over time, the context changed. Research gradually gave way to communication, the web, and the design of digital systems. Maps became catalogues, websites, QR codes, workflows, databases, and everyday working tools.
And yet, looking back, I realize the problem I was trying to solve never really changed.
How to give shape to complex systems.
How to connect information.
How to reduce repetitive work.
How to let people focus on content instead of process.
Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work with companies, public institutions, and non-profit organizations in very different contexts. Many of the systems I've built rely on WordPress, Gravity Forms, Google Sheets, Python, Mapbox, or other technologies.
But none of these really defines my work. They're tools. They keep changing. What remains is the way I try to make them work together.
I enjoy observing existing systems, understanding how they work, and imagining simpler ways to connect people, information, and tools.
Sometimes that means writing a few lines of code. Other times it means writing none at all.
It means removing unnecessary steps, reusing what already works, and building small bridges between tools that, until then, had been working independently.
That is probably why I still feel connected to ecology, even though I no longer work directly in that field.
In ecosystems, every element gains value through the relationships it builds with others. I find myself looking for the same balance in digital systems.
In the end, I don't really build websites. I design relationships.
I'm not interested in adding complexity. I'm interested in understanding how much of it we can remove without losing what matters.
Today I work at the intersection of information, digital tools and people. Some projects involve websites. Others involve automation, data, GIS, APIs or AI. The technologies change. The underlying question rarely does: How can existing systems work better together?