ABOUT

Hi, I’m Stefano.

Engineer and former head of product. I take AI from idea to production where being wrong is expensive: courts, government and regulated enterprise. I was employee #1 at a bootstrapped software company, then ran its product and technology.

employee #1 at vivacity. 10+ people by the end.
01

How I work

Four habits I keep coming back to.

01

Provenance first

Every claim should trace back to its source. If a system cannot show where an answer came from, it is not done.

02

Deterministic where possible

Split systems into parts that can be proven correct and parts that need AI. Then check the AI parts.

03

Find the real problem in the data

Production data usually tells a different story than the feature request. Once it showed a single Templates feature was really three different jobs.

04

Own it end to end

From the first customer call to the live demo with judges, one person owns it.

02

Path

Courts, government, telecom.

the short version
MAY 2026 TO NOW

Senior software engineer

Legal AI for courts. Clio (formerly Learned Hand, acquired)

Citation and quote checks, evals and golden datasets, and live demos with sitting judges.

4+ YEARS

Employee #1, then head of product and technology

Bootstrapped B2B and B2G software, Canada

Owned VivaPKI end to end, built VivaCitadel, and grew into product and technology leadership.

SINCE 2013

Independent

Side projects and research

Production code since 13. Six peer-reviewed papers in geospatial computing and graph modeling.

03

By the numbers

A few facts, checkable.

RESEARCH
6
peer-reviewed publications
ZERO TO ONE
3
products taken from zero to market
WORLD
4
countries lived in
CRAFT
13
age I started writing code
04

Outside work

Everything else.

Based in Vinhedo, São Paulo state, on hours that overlap most of the Americas. Ten years in the US and Canada. Italian citizen. I play music, read physics and history, and want to teach one day.

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