Rossi Stefano

Since young age I played with computers. One day I discovered that I could program them to do things for me. I started doing hello worlds in C++, and some year later I was coding small 2D games in java applet for fun, like:

Growing up I had the tendence to have friends older than me, one day they started playing sudoku. I tried it, I was bad and could get why my friends were so obsessed with something so repetitive and boring. So I used my programming skills to developed a sudoku solver with rule's checking and recursivity. That's how I won my sudoku's supremacy.

One day I was reading about the Manhattan alghoritm and realized I could implement an adaptive intelligence for the ghosts of my pac man clone, so I did it. This was my first rudimental approach to AI.

Years passed and got some education and working experience in IT. But I keept hearing about AI, especially with the advent of large scale Natural Language Model, and realized I was missing too much knowledge and was needed a new plan. So I discovering that the Engineering school in Fribourg started a new bachelor program to specialize in Data Engineering, I left everything to start this study.

So here I am, studying and working part time as software developer.

The modern helvetic jurisdiction is particural sensitive to privacy and security in IT, and I am not underestimating the implication of everything not part of basic IT security declared in the OWASP Top 10. AI is a powerful tool, but it must be used responsibly and ethically. I published a white paper on the topic of AI Model Vulnerabilities: Backdoors in LLMs and Beyond, which is available on my public repository.

As a technical and professional hobby, I manage an enterprise ready multinode kubernetes cluster with support for cloud native aplications, high availability, large scale scaling, backups, metrics, and blue-green gitops. In this cluster I run my personal projects and other services such as a self-hosted VaultWarden instance, many HA databases, some websites, and more. This allows me to have full governance over my data and the software I use, while also providing a platform for testing, developing and showcasing my work. I am a Linux enthusiast, currently using Arch linux on my laptop and Aurora, an atomic OS distribution based on Fedora Kinoite, on my desktop workstation. And I am developing a Flutter multiplatform application. My native language is Italian, and I am fluent in English and French.