Hello, I'm Miro! I am a full-stack software engineer from Italy, living in Dubai.

My Journey

I started coding at age 11 and never stopped. I earned both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Bologna with top honors, equivalent to a 4.0 GPA, despite working part-time to support my studies.

I've worked across the private, academic, and public sectors—ranging from a financial system used by the Italian credit bureau, to award-winning research at New York University, and collaborations on national projects in the UAE, including the Space Agency and Ministry of Health. I currently lead development of a real-time data processing and visualization application in a restricted-access environment.

Privately, I've built both open-source tools and independent apps. Justified Gallery was adopted by hundreds of thousands of websites, including 500px. Others include Ruzzle Solver that reached around two million users and an Android game with over 150,000 downloads.

A generalist with a direction

I started out with VB6, spending hours trying to master every part of it. I read everything I could, overfocusing on the language and its ecosystem. But a few years later, it was replaced by VB.NET, and all that deep knowledge suddenly felt outdated. That taught me not to get too attached to specific technologies, and to focus more on the core ideas behind programming, architecture, and engineering.

Since then, I've worked across diverse areas: web apps and libraries, domain-specific languages, encrypted file systems, distributed crawlers, database systems, data visualization, image processing, and more. I approach each challenge with an open mind, choosing tools based on the problem rather than just what I already know.

In my free time

Outside of my professional sphere, I am a passionate photographer and enjoy an active life, especially hiking and mountaineering. The following is a photo I took from a very dear place nearby my hometown.