About
Software Engineer at PLTR London
Pursuing a BSc in Computers & AI
3x Co-founder and CTO
Marathon finisher
Minimalist
Experience
Palantir Technologies
Software Engineer
May 2025 - present
London, UK
Lead The Future
Software Engineer (volunteer)
Sep 2023 - present
Rome, Italy
Fankee
Founding Engineer (internship)
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
Milan, Italy
Plannix
AI Engineer (internship)
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
Milan, Italy
the Deep Company
Co-founder
Jan 2024 - Sep 2024
San Francisco, CA
Ybook NFT
Co-founder
Mar 2021 - Jul 2022
Corigliano-Rossano, Italy
WhatsHand
iOS Engineer (internship)
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Sibari, Italy
Education
Always a Student
It's not about "educated" v "un-educated." It's about "likes to read" and "doesn't like to read."
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Sapienza University of Rome
Applied Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Sep 2022 - present
Get in Touch
My email address is 
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I receive many messages: while I'm thankful, I'm not able to reply to every single one. I understand this sounds rough, but otherwise I would not work. If you don't get a reply the first time please try to resend your message if it is truly important.
Products I'm happy I built
I worked on a variety of software projects, from simple web applications to complex systems. Here are a few.
DanceCut AI
Automated video-editing app for dancers, based on object tracking, designed and launched with my dear friends Gianluca Pontoni and Filippo Ranaldi
Wellbio
AI-powered journaling via email, designed with my dear friend Gianluca
Eugene AI
AI coach for crossfit gyms based on pose classification, designed with my dear friend Gianluca
Deeply
Journaling diary that writes back at you, based on LLMs, designed with my dear friends Luca Barattini and Gianluca Pontoni
Ybook NFT: "Turning lives into artworks"
NFT final-year high school yearbook to invest in promising grads careers based on achievements and personality, designed with my dear friend and cinematographer Jonathan Elia
high-school misc
During high school, first I completed the OSSU self-taught computer science curriculum, then I built several projects, including a client-server battleship game in Java, a web-based school lunch ordering system in PHP, a command-line interface CRM in C++, and a Python-based subnet masks generator
All over the place
I love hanging out with sharp minds.
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<antirez> meetup
Campobello di Licata, Italy
Humble intimate AI meetup organized by @antirez. Location: bread bakery house in Campobello di Licata, Sicily. Special guests: homemade bread, cheese, and wine.
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ICPC SWERC
Pisa, Italy
Competed in the SWERC 2024, major international competitive programming competition, representing Sapienza University of Rome
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EliCSir Foundation
Orvieto, Italy
Computer science summer school sponsored by Eric Schmidt, featuring researchers from Cornell University, Berkeley, Stanford, Google, IBM, and more
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Silicon Valley Fellowship
San Francisco, California
Lectures and meetings with investors, entrepreneurs, and tech professionals from leading companies and startups such as Dropbox, Cisco, Lyft, Netflix, and more in the San Francisco Bay Area
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paulgraham.it
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LeadTheFuture Mentorship
Among the few students selected to be mentees for LeadTheFuture, a leading mentorship non-profit organization for students in STEM. LeadTheFuture empowers top-performing students to achieve their goals and contribute to their communities by giving them one-on-one guidance from high-impact mentors coming from the world's leading STEM innovation hubs such as Silicon Valley and CERN.
What I believe
The people who shaped me, the principles I live by, and my thoughts on software.
People and organizations I'll forever be grateful towards
Marco Roseti and Concetta Perri: for opening the Tersicore Dance School and creating the environment that allowed me to fill my childhood afternoons with passion and love
Alessandro Steri and Filippo Ranaldi: for creating the N.ough Project, believing in me when not even I believed in myself, and teaching me the power of discipline and attitude
Francesco Capponi: for establishing the Lead The Future community, opening my mind to all that's going on in the world, turning me in the most ambitious version of myself, and allowing lifelong connections with kindred spirits to happen
Erick Turricelli and Tommaso Tosi: for launching the Silicon Valley Fellowship, flying me to the Bay Area, and making me feel part of the innovation in the world
Ozalp Babaoglu, Lorenzo Alvisi, Alessandro Panconesi, Gianfranco Bilardi, Schmidt Sciences and the Elicsir Foundation: for teaching me that no matter how impactful your professional contributions, all the joy in life remains in staying humble and just retiring to beautiful places eating good food while discussing interesting ideas with cool people
Fundamental things I believe about society and life
We can't fix people, we can only love them.
Hard things are always worthwhile.
"One day" will never come, today is all we have.
The human attention span decrease is the saddest loss of this decade.
Intelligence is a myth and emotional maturity is all that matters, even in professional/technical pursuits.
Decent financial freedom is a prerequisite for living deliberately, but no more than decent, for hedonic adaptation kicks in promptly.
Time spent accumulating credentials (prestige) or following arbitrary social norms (status) doesn't lead to any meaningful outcome and is basically just lost forever.
The only way to create something good is to create it for you to be proud of it afterwards, not for customers or for your audience.
Fundamental things I believe about software
Software sucks.
Users are not dumb.
Reliable software delivers better UX than the best UI.
Last but not least
Luck favours the bold.
Leave no stone unturned.
Do what makes you proud.
— With love, Daniel
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