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Hey, I'm

Youssef

Entrepreneur first, dev second. I use technology as a tool to achieve my goals not as a destination.

Works

Nonvipago

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End-to-end legaltech platform for contesting traffic tickets with AI.

Researchmatch

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Full-stack platform that reduced research discovery time from weeks to seconds. Used by 20,000+ users in 52+ countries.

Social media analytics tool for SMEs to track audience engagement and discover trending content without expensive tools.

Experience

Nov 2025 - PresentNOW

AI/SW Engineer

Veliu.com

Architecting a multimodal Search & Price Engine for second-hand goods valuation. Scaling operations that is currently managing €50K daily transaction volume.

Jun 2025 - PresentNOW

Co-Founder

NonViPago.it

Built an end-to-end legaltech platform for contesting traffic tickets. Event-driven architecture with AI-assisted document understanding and hybrid RAG for millions of legal documents.

Mar 2025 - Aug 2025

ML Research Intern

Uppsala University

Deployed federated learning pipeline on distributed SLURM cluster. Reduced communication overhead by 20-30% with Path Norm Variance client selection.

Dec 2024 - Jun 2025

AI Engineer

Scale AI

Designed prompts to expose model vulnerabilities. Applied RLHF to optimize AI-generated code quality and reduce runtime errors.

Jan 2025 - Feb 2025

Research Assistant

Univ. Milano-Bicocca

Applied ML on simulation data from 900 agents to model addiction risk in social media recommender systems. Contributed to a paper on ethical recommender design.

Education

Oct 2025 - Oct 2027NOW

M.Sc. Computer Science

Univ. Milano-Bicocca

Oct 2022 - Oct 2025

B.Sc. Computer Science

Univ. Milano-Bicocca

GPA: 4.0

Oct 2017 - Jul 2022

IT Technical High School Diploma

Technical High School "Guido Donegani"

Final grade: 100/100. Winner of Rotary Club Award for Best IT Student. Qualified for Italian Olympiad in Informatics and Mathematics.

My Story

Born into an immigrant family and raised in a small town in Southern Italy of just 2,000 people, I quickly learned that if opportunities don't exist, you have to invent them.

My journey started in middle school. I developed a deep passion for mathematics and spent countless hours playing Minecraft; that combination naturally led me to choose IT for high school.

During those years, I began to merge my technical skills with an entrepreneurial mindset, using IT as a tool to bring my ideas to life:

The First Win: Launched a custom merchandising store at 15. It was my first experience with online sales, earning my first €100.

The Craft: Started sourcing watch parts from China, hand-assembling the pieces, and reselling them online. This taught me how to find niche markets and manage physical products.

The Pivot: Built bots to buy and resell limited-edition streetwear automatically. First time I scaled to thousands with code and understood the power cs.

Through these ventures, I realized that computer science was capable of something even bigger. When I discovered the world of startups, everything clicked. I moved from reselling products to building them.

Today, I am fully committed to building software products and never-ending learning.

The hustle never changed. Only the scale did.