Extra-Net was founded in 2022, where two different paths met: business organisation and software architecture. She runs the company, he runs the technology. Both teach, and they teach what they build at work every day.
She has led Extra-Net since it was founded: organisation, people, contracts and business development, with the legal responsibilities of employer and of health and safety officer. She is the point of contact for clients, schools and universities, and the company's voice when it comes to deciding which work to take on, and on what terms.
In the IT industry since 2017, starting as a developer: she knows technical work from the inside, and it shows in the way she runs projects and people.
Hiring and onboarding, career paths, administration and contracts are hers. She opened and maintains the relationships with technical secondary schools for their work-based learning placements, and with the University of Turin for higher apprenticeship programmes.
- 2022–nowFounds Extra-Net and leads the organisation: people, administration, contracts and business development, through to the relationships with schools and universities.Company management
- 2020–25Project management for enterprise clients: accountable for the client relationship, the schedule and the coordination of suppliers on a platform used in plants worldwide.Food · multinational
- 2017–20Years as a developer and then in application management: from front-end work to collaboration and document management solutions for large groups.Banking · industrial · automotive
- 2014–17Studies computer science at secondary school, graduating as a technical expert in IT. Right after her final exams she leaves for Cork, Ireland, for four months of work on a Master dei Talenti scholarship.Technical education · Ireland
She teaches information and digital technologies at the ITS Agroalimentare per il Piemonte and has taught computer science at ITTS Carlo Grassi. With that same school she designed the software development programme that received a special mention at the AHK Italien Dual Excellence Award.
Outside IT, she led the instructional design of a chamber of commerce programme on food supply chains and sustainable consumption, aimed at schools.
Programming since 2005, professionally since 2011. At Extra-Net he is responsible for technology: architecture, infrastructure, security, and research and development on artificial intelligence.
He works on large-scale platforms, where the craft lies in holding together systems that grow and teams that change. He designs the architecture, builds alongside the others, and answers for what goes into production.
- 2021–nowArchitecture and technical leadership of large-scale data platforms: systems that collect plant data and turn it into the indicators a company decides on. In parallel he leads research and development on applied artificial intelligence, from models trained on client data to open models adapted to run on modest resources.Food packaging · chemical · artificial intelligence
- 2015–21The move from development to architecture: rewriting systems built as a single block into independent services, taking platforms to the cloud, and beginning to lead development teams, answering for technical decisions as well as for his own code.Telecommunications · electronics · banking · insurance
- 2011–15Years as a developer for clients, first in an agency and then in consulting: web and business applications taken from the front end down to the database, learning to work on other people's briefs and to tight constraints.Web and mobile · banking
- 2008–11Freelance work for small clients: sites and applications taken from the brief to delivery, where the craft is learned by delivering.Web and mobile
- 2005–08Self-taught, with his first contributions to the open source projects whose tools he builds with.Open source
When he finds a flaw in the tools he uses, he fixes it upstream: he has contributed for years to the open source projects the company builds on, and releases some of his own. It is the thread that ties the early years to today.
He teaches cloud, machine learning and deep learning at the ITS ICT Piemonte and the ITS Agroalimentare per il Piemonte, and has taught computer science at secondary level. He is the company tutor for programmes with the University of Turin and with technical schools in Turin.
Extra-Net in brief
Since 2022, software consulting and development for enterprise clients, mostly through major international consulting groups. Sectors: food, chemical, banking, insurance, industrial, energy.
It is nearly always the same craft applied to different domains: systems that have to carry heavy loads and stay secure, platforms that gather data and make it usable, and the everyday applications of artificial intelligence. The whole team works on these, alongside clients from the first assessment through to a system in service.