I'm a software engineer, currently doing my MSc in Business Informatics at GIU — and also a teaching assistant there :)
What I actually do: I notice a problem, get annoyed enough by it, and build something to fix it. That's how most of my projects started:
- Bored of static lecture slides putting students to sleep → built SlidesBuzz, a live quiz/leaderboard layer for classrooms
- Tired of writing the same prompt structure over and over → built Promptify, a Chrome extension that does it for me
Before this I spent a couple years teaching robotics and coding to kids aged 6–18 (80+ sessions and counting), which honestly taught me more about explaining things simply than any CS course did.
Currently: building SimLab 👀 — more on that soon.
Stack I actually use: React · TypeScript · SQL · Python · Laravel · Power BI · a healthy amount of AI
Outside of code: if there's ever a Power BI dashboard on Premier League stats in my repos, yes, that was me being unable to just watch football like a normal person.