"If I had five hours to write code, I'd spend the first four thinking about how to avoid rewriting it later."
— Abraham Lincoln (probably)

🔭 Currently Building: DeFi Builder — the first no-code marketplace for DeFi primitives

🧠 My Philosophy & Approach: Ideate, Stress-Test, Validate, Prototype, Launch, Repeat.

🌱 Learning:

• AI / MLOps: Advanced model deployment with Kubeflow, exploring LLM architectures and RAG. Shifting from pure data science to the full engineering lifecycle.
• Hardware Prototyping: Engineering firmware for custom embedded systems to build functional physical devices from the ground up.
• Web3 / MEV Infrastructure: Diving deep into the Ethereum consensus and execution layers to understand the new block proposer system.

Recent Wins:

Web3 Hackathons
🏆 1st Prize: NearYield, crosschain AI Investment advisor - Nearcon 23 - Lisbon - Nov 2023
🏆 1st Prize: DefiBuilder, no tool DeFi primitives - MultiversX xDay - Romania - Oct 2023
🏆 1st Prize: Neo X Grind Hackathon - NeoFlex
🏆 1st Prize: BNB Chain Q3 Hackathon
✨ Selected for Binance Most Valuable Builder (MVB) 11 Program - Echopy
🥉 3rd Prize: Chainlink Hackathon
🏆 1st Prize: Areon Network Hackathon
🥈 2nd Prize: Solana x Encode Hackathon
🥈 2nd Prize: Starknet Hackathon
🏆 1st Prize: ICP Balkans Ideathon
🏆 1st Prize: Fuel House
🥈 2nd Prize: Flow Forte Hackathon - Flowmatic No Code Scheduled Transaction Composer - Online - Sept 2025
🏆 1st Prize: Praxos, liquidity investment layer for TradFi, operated on Rayls network. - Buenos Aires - EthGlobal - Dec 2025
🏆 1st Prize: Bot Trading Competition on RobinPump ( MEV Honeypot tactic ) - Hong Kong - Consensus - Jan 2026
🏆 1st Prize: BananaESP, collect telemetry data using BLE to build the first tomographic data layer - Lisbon - EthHlobal - Jul 2026

Web2 Hackathons
🏆 1st Prize: Nexi CPHACK2018 - CharityUP
🥉 3rd Prize: Poste Italiane - STEPO
🏆 1st Prize: IBM CognitiveHack - BananaBanking
🥈 2nd Prize: Digital Field Hack (TIM) - AgroDolce
🏆 1st Prize: Confcooperative Hack
🏆 1st Prize: John Cabot University Entrepreneurship Challenge - UniQue
🥇 1st Prize: Vodafone Esport Hackathon - Digital Wellbeing
🥉 3rd Prize: Accenture Digital Hackathon - OpenThesis
🥈 2nd Prize: Cisco Hack for Goal - Webex Virtual