About

I’m a Senior Solutions Engineer based in the Milan area, currently working at Integral Ad Science, where I help clients in the Italian and Spanish markets navigate integrations that sit somewhere between “technically straightforward” and “nobody has ever tried this before.” My background spans digital analytics, adtech, and a small software house: roughly fifteen years of bridging the worlds of engineering and presales.

Before IAS, I spent five years as a Technical Account Manager at Webtrekk, working with some of Italy’s largest publishers and media companies. That role taught me that figuring out the right question to ask is often more important than coming up with a good answer to it.

Outside of work, I’m a member of the American Cryptogram Association and a regular solver of classical ciphers. There’s something genuinely satisfying about pen, paper, and a cipher: no screens, no IDEs, no Stack Overflow to fall back on. I’ve had original constructions published in The Cryptogram, which remains one of the nerdiest things I’m proud of.

I also play rugby, which I took up at forty after watching my children play and thinking “huh, I’d like to grovel in the mud like them”. After a few years of bouncing off people larger than myself, I’m completely hooked and I’ve become an incredibly versatile player: fast as a prop and as big as a winger.

Most importantly, I’m a proud father of two.

This blog is where I think out loud about technical problem-solving, cryptography, and whatever else manages to hold my attention long enough to write about.