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Currently in Italy · Available worldwide
01 / About

Behind the
studio.

Five years building software — from startup basements to Series B product teams. I founded Studio Seahorse to do the work I love, on my own terms: end-to-end, no handoffs, fast.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindPostgresVercelAI tooling
Past
Stripe · Linear
Two acquired startups
Based
Italy
Available worldwide
Availability
2 slots open
Spring / Summer '26
5 yrs
building software
28+
products shipped
100%
projects on time
02 / The story

One person doing
five people's jobs.

I started writing code in a university dorm room in 2012. Since then I've worked at companies you've heard of — Stripe, Linear — and a couple you haven't: early-stage startups where the job title was “engineer” but the actual job was everything. That's where I learned that the most valuable person on a small team is the one who can hold the whole product in their head.

The last two years I've leaned hard into AI as a force multiplier — and found that it doesn't replace craft, it just lets one person do what used to take five. Studio Seahorse is the result.

I take on a small number of projects each year and run them end-to-end. The same person who runs your discovery workshop also writes your database schema, designs your onboarding flow, and deploys to production on Friday afternoon.

The best freelancers specialize. The best studios cover everything. I decided to be the exception that does both.
— On founding Studio Seahorse
03 / How I work

Four rules I
don't break.

These aren't values on a slide deck. They're decisions I make every week.

01
Ship, then polish.
A working product in users' hands beats a perfect one on a Figma board. Speed uncovers real problems. Polish can wait.
02
No handoffs.
The person who scopes the work ships the work. Nothing is lost in translation when one head holds the full context.
03
AI as leverage, not a crutch.
I use AI to move faster — not to think less. Every decision is deliberate. Every line that ships has been read.
04
Fewer, deeper projects.
Two slots at a time, intentionally. When I take on a project, it gets the whole brain — not a slice of it.
04 / Timeline

Twelve years,
condensed.

2024
Founded Studio Seahorse
Left full-time employment to run a focused solo studio. First client signed in the first week.
2022–24
Head of Product · Series B startup
Led product and engineering for a logistics platform. Grew from 12 to 60 engineers. Shipped a ground-up redesign.
2020–22
Product Engineer · Linear
Early-stage contributor. Worked on core issue tracking and the design system that shipped to millions of developers.
2018–20
Senior Engineer · Stripe
Worked on the Dashboard and internal tooling used by Stripe support teams globally.
2015–18
Co-founder · Acquired startup
Built and sold a B2B SaaS product for the events industry. First taste of doing every job at once.
2012
First line of code
Self-taught in a university dorm room. JavaScript, jQuery, and a lot of Stack Overflow.
28+
products shipped
100%
projects on time
9/10
clients rebooked
< 24h
response time
05 / The person

Not just
a résumé.

I live in Italy but work with clients across EU and the US. I surf before my laptop opens. I contribute to open-source projects when I can't sleep. I believe async communication is almost always better than a meeting, and I'll prove it.

Based
Italy · Remote
Available
Worldwide · async-first
Speaks
EN · PT · ES
Reply time
< 24 hours
Off-hours
Surfing · Open source
Energy
Mornings, then evenings
09 / Get in touch

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