Hi, I'm Gianni
Based in New York. I graduated with a B.S in Computer Science from University at Buffalo in Spring of 2025 with a focus on software development. I'm excited to learn new tools and work on industry solutions.
Interests
Trying New Foods · Horror Movies · Cycling · Escape Rooms · Fighting Games
How I Operate
Approach
- Plan for Things to Break
- Make Systems Easy to Work With
- Build for the Next Person
Implementation
- Write Tests Before Trusting Code
- Keep Data Flow Clear
- Follow Common Patterns People Expect
Featured Work
Phone Eats First (In Progress)
A social-first meal sharing platform where users must post their own meals to unlock their friends’ content.
- Designing a full-stack system with a Spring Boot API, MySQL persistence, and S3-backed media storage to support scalable meal sharing
- Implementing a progressive access model where users log breakfast, lunch, and dinner to unlock a mutual friends-only feed
- Building core social features including photo uploads, feed retrieval, and future support for likes, comments, and secure user authentication
Right Now
- Learning new technologies with a focus on underlying systems and behavior
- Building projects to strengthen core engineering skills and real-world understanding
- Iterating on this site to better reflect how I think and build as an engineer