Senior Freelance Software Engineer
7+ years of experience · Startups · Software consulting · 10+ enterprise organisations
One continuous workflow, from technical definition through production.
Sometimes there is an idea that needs to become an app.
Sometimes the project is already underway, but the team needs one more person.
Other times, one part of the product needs to be built, improved or finally released.
Let’s start with what you actually need.
I don’t limit my contribution to individual features.
Over the years, I have worked across startups, software consultancies and enterprise organisations, joining different contexts and teams.
The project changes, but my method stays the same: understand what is needed and find the most effective way to build it.
If you are starting from zero, I can take direct responsibility for the end-to-end development of your application.
We start with the concrete need, define the technical approach, software architecture and required components, then build the product step by step through release.
Is the project already underway, but you need additional support? I can join your team.
If you already have developers, you do not need to change the way you work to involve me.
I join the project, learn the codebase, use the stack you have chosen and integrate with the team, contributing wherever development support is needed.
In practical terms, I add technical capacity to the project without creating friction.
I work with the technologies you already use.
I adapt to your workflow and tools.
I collaborate with the people already building the product.
Writing code is only one part of the work.
When I join a project, I also try to understand how the product works and how the codebase is structured.
During development, I may find an area that could be faster, a solution that risks becoming difficult to maintain over time, or a process that could be simplified.
If I believe it can make a meaningful difference, I discuss it with the team.
Performance, maintenance, builds and deployment are all areas worth addressing when they can materially improve the project.
When needed, I can also contribute to technical decisions and software architecture, not only their implementation.
Technologies are tools. The right choice depends on the product, the project and how the team operates.
That is why I work across web and mobile development, choosing the stack that best fits the context first.
The technologies I use most often include:
React · Next.js · Angular
Node.js · NestJS · Fastify · Elixir
React Native
PostgreSQL
Builds · deployment · release management
Integrating artificial-intelligence services and features when they have a concrete purpose within the product.
End-to-end development
A platform where Italian IT freelancers manage clients, projects, calendars and portfolios, and access real market data.
I designed and developed it from scratch, covering architecture, frontend, backend, database and deployment.
It now has more than 300 members.
Admiral Pay · Mobile team
A digital wallet with more than 100,000 downloads, developed for different markets.
Within the React Native team, I automated the builds and excluded dictionaries that were not required in each market.
This kept the product on one shared codebase while producing lighter packages.
Core product · React and Elixir
An enterprise platform for building and managing AI agents.
I work on the core product across React and Elixir, improving the frontend, user experience and performance.
One optimization reduced startup time by five seconds and made the experience more fluid.
“Professional and an excellent colleague you can rely on.”
“An extremely competent, precise and reliable professional.”
“Silvio developed a proprietary algorithm for us and continues to improve it.”
I like understanding how things work—especially when I can get hands-on.
I’m curious and practical. I assemble, take things apart and experiment—even when that means getting things wrong—to understand what I can do better.
That approach follows me into software, but my curiosity about technology does not end with work. Outside it, I build and fly FPV drones and experiment with electronics, IoT and home automation.
It is not enough for me that something works: I want to understand why it works, how it is built and where it can be improved.
When I want a complete change of pace, I lose myself in a video game or play the drums. Drumming represents another side of me: it takes coordination, rhythm, practice and consistency while still leaving room for creativity.
I like turning an idea into something concrete: whether it is music, an application, a drone assembled piece by piece or an automation that previously existed only in my head.
Ultimately, the common thread is always the same: I enjoy starting with an idea and figuring out how to make it work.
Building something?
If you are building a new application, already have a web or mobile product underway, or simply need one more person on the team, tell me what you are working on.
You do not need to have everything defined: tell me where you are, what you want to build and where you are running into difficulty.
From there, we can work out whether I can help and what kind of collaboration makes the most sense.
Yes. I can join an existing team, work within the codebase and adapt to the stack and process already in use.
Yes. I can take care of end-to-end development, from technical definition through release.
Yes. I integrate with the team and collaborate with the people already involved in the project without imposing a new workflow.
The project comes first. If the stack is compatible with my skills and I can contribute effectively, I adapt to the existing context.
We start with a call to understand where you are, what you are building and what kind of support you need.