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Ten years of building real-time software — from console games to autonomous space missions.

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Experience

Where I've worked

Senior software engineer with 10+ years across the gaming and aerospace industries. Mathematician by training, specialized in real-time simulation, numerical methods and 3D graphics; today leading the Virtual Environments department at AIKO, building simulation products for autonomous space missions — from CubeSat rendezvous to lunar landing.

07/2021 — present

Head of Virtual Environments

AIKO – Infinite ways to Autonomy — Turin

  • Lead real-time simulation development for aerospace autonomy (Unity3D, C#, C++, Python, VR).
  • Built simulators for synthetic dataset generation, powering AI-based visual navigation and pose estimation where real orbital data is scarce.
  • Created closed-loop reinforcement-learning environments for GNC agents — including "Buzz", an RL-controlled In-Orbit Servicing simulator for CubeSat rendezvous and docking, with a human-vs-RL interactive demo.
  • Delivered VR/AR demos and real-time tools (AI lunar-landing agent demo, EO payload data generator, Flight Dynamics Engine).
  • Manage a cross-functional technical team; coordinate delivery and knowledge sharing across departments.

01/2020 — 07/2021

Autonomous Driving Engineering Specialist

Stellantis — Orbassano (Turin)

  • Simulation team on the L3 autonomous-driving "Thunder" project in collaboration with BMW.
  • Integrated vehicle dynamics and sensor models into the software-in-the-loop platform.
  • Built continuous-integration pipelines and managed large-scale simulation runs on clusters to test AD functions.

12/2015 — 01/2020

Lead Game Programmer / Software Engineer

MixedBag Srl — Turin

  • Shipped and ported titles on PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Xbox, Nintendo Switch / Wii U, mobile and Apple Arcade.
  • Developed physics simulation systems, AI entities and low-level platform integration code.
  • Led a small team of programmers; project management on B2B projects including AR/VR applications.
  • Secret Oops! (Apple Arcade) awarded by IIDEA as best innovative game.

03/2015 — 11/2015

MSc Thesis Internship

MixedBag Srl — Turin

  • Master's thesis on target-driven fluid animation, developed and tested on PlayStation 4.

10/2012 — 01/2013

Android Developer

Mutabilis Srl — Rome

  • Ported interactive tales to Android (Digital Tales' "Snow White", "Little Red Riding Hood").
  • Built a traffic-prediction visualization tool with the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

10/2012 — 02/2013

Teaching Assistant

University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

  • Assistant for the "Programming in Java and graphics" course (BSc Science and Technology for the Media).
Education

Where I studied

2013 — 2015

MSc Computer Science — Virtual Reality & Multimedia

University of Turin — 110/110 cum laude

2008 — 2012

BSc Science and Technology for the Media — Applied Mathematics

University of Rome "Tor Vergata" — 108/110

Skills

Engines & Graphics

  • Unity3D
  • Unreal Engine 4
  • real-time rendering
  • VR/AR

Languages

  • C#
  • C++
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • PHP
  • SQL

Simulation & Space AI

  • numerical methods
  • orbital & attitude dynamics
  • RL training environments
  • synthetic data pipelines
  • SIL testing

DevOps

  • Git
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • CI/CD
  • Linux

Leadership

  • people management
  • Agile/Scrum/Kanban
  • activity planning
  • cross-team communication
Publications

Research & shipped work

  • 2025Differentiating Adversarial Attacks from Natural Sensory Anomalies in Object DetectionR. Lowe, M. Ulan, T. Bui, G. Giordana, T. Giani, F. RossiECML PKDD 2025 — part of the SAFEXPLAIN Horizon Europe project
  • 2024Optimizing Multi-Task Learning for Accurate Spacecraft Pose EstimationF. Evangelisti, F. Rossi, T. Giani, I. Bloise, M. VarileSPAICE Conference
  • 2023A mission-agnostic on-board autonomy software solution to streamline spacecraft operationsSpaceOps
Selected shipped titles
  • Secret Oops! (Apple Arcade, 2020)
  • Detective Gallo (2018)
  • Still Time (2018)
  • Avery — IBM Italia (2018)
  • forma.8 (2017)
  • Blue Angels (2017)
  • Wheels of Aurelia (2016)
  • Futuridium EP Deluxe (2016)
  • The Wardrobe
  • Atomine
  • Waking Violet
  • and more console ports

Certifications — Unity Certified Developer, Unity Technologies (2017)

Languages — Italian (native) / English (professional working proficiency, B2)

Regular speaker on game technology for space and AI — OGR Torino, Politecnico di Torino, ASI workshops, GSSI SPACERAISE doctoral school.See Talks & Media

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