Hello, I'm
NicolòFadigà
Software developer
I build complete web applications: interfaces, APIs and infrastructure. They usually start from a problem of my own, and the part I'm best at is the one before the code: clear requirements, architecture in order, technology picked for a reason.
I build web applications from the first interface all the way to deployment: the part users touch, the APIs behind it and the infrastructure that keeps it running.
They usually start from a problem of my own. WealthWatcher exists because I wanted all my finances in one place without handing that data to someone else's application, which is why it's self-hosted and will stay that way. I'd rather build something that serves me first: if it holds up for my case, it stands a fair chance of holding up for someone else.
Before I open the editor I want a clear picture: requirements pinned down, stack chosen, architecture in order. It's the phase I care about most, because that's where you decide whether a project will hold up or has to be rebuilt, and it's the one where, on team projects, I usually end up holding the overall picture together. When it comes to writing, I watch the details and keep things minimal: the least that makes them work, without layers nobody will enjoy reading later.
I work with Claude Code and other AI tooling as part of the stack: I use it to automate the repetitive work, keep tests and documentation in step and get to something working sooner. What comes out of it I check myself, and that is where knowing the technology matters: "it works" and "it holds" are two different things, and the difference has to be caught before the code reaches production.
I'm finishing my MSc in Information Engineering in Trento and looking for somewhere to keep building things like these: a team that argues about decisions rather than just executing them, and a field to go deep enough in to become the person others come to, without losing sight of the rest of the stack. In Italy or abroad.
01Frontend
02Backend & data
03Machine learning & scientific computing
04Interfaces & visualisation
05Infrastructure & tooling
06Practices
About
Consolidates bank accounts, investment portfolios and other assets into a single view, with a complete Italian tax engine: capital gains, income tax, stamp duty, IVAFE and loss carry-forward.
Stack
Next.js 16 · TypeScript · SQLite · Drizzle ORM · Auth.js · Docker
A desktop application for visualising and analysing indoor localisation data from a UWB system, built to surface the anomalies that raw logs hide.
Measures the biomechanical quality of a squat, from depth to symmetry to joint risk, and tests how much of what a mocap lab captures can be recovered from four plain RGB cameras.
A movie recommendation platform that blends personal taste, current mood and group preferences, and always explains why it suggested what it suggested.
An end-to-end pipeline that turns tasters' free-text comments and cheese wheel photographs into an image–caption dataset, then trains six captioning architectures on it.
A Windows overlay that transcribes speech locally on the GPU and inserts the text, optionally rewritten by AI, straight into whatever field you are typing in.
A platform for students living away from home that merges finding a room with finding the right flatmates, because in practice they are the same problem.
Managing an SDN in plain language: the administrator states the goal and the system generates and runs the topology and controller code.
A pipeline that takes hours of recorded lectures all the way to structured notes, flashcards and ready-to-compile LaTeX handouts.
Master's thesis in progress.
Algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, software engineering.
First serious contact with programming: labs and projects.
