AI / ML Engineering
Models, agents and inference pipelines, from fine-tuning to LLM-powered products.
- Python
- PyTorch
- OpenAI APIs
Francesco Giannicola
Founder of Limes Labs · Computer Science & AI student at Università della Calabria.
- Location
- Cosenza, Italy
- 🎂Age
- 20years
- 🎓Status
- BSc Computer Science & AI · Sep 2024 → Exp 2027
- 💼Open to
- Internships & collaborations
- ✉️Email
- 🐙GitHub
- @metaforismo
- 📄CV
- cv.pdf
About
I'm a self-taught engineer with a soft spot for systems that look impossible at first sight. Most of what I know I learned by reverse-engineering papers, breaking SDKs apart, and shipping side projects until something clicks.
My current work sits between product and research: Jurevo as a legal AI workspace, Limes Labs as a public research umbrella, and agent infrastructure that makes AI work inspectable instead of just impressive.
Outside of code: Christopher Nolan (especially Interstellar), space exploration, football, and the timeless story of DragonBall. Different inputs, same loop. Patterns and structure everywhere.
I run on organisation and precision. I'd rather ship one thing properly than three half-baked ones.
What I do
Full-Stack Development
Type-safe web apps with the React and Next.js stack, deployed on Vercel.
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Tailwind
Blockchain & Web3
Decentralised applications and smart contracts on Ethereum-compatible chains.
- Solidity
- Web3.js
- Ethereum
Robotics & Computer Vision
Real-time perception and control loops bridging hardware and ML models.
- YOLO
- OpenCV
- ROS
Selected work
10 curated worksA compact index of the work that best explains my current direction: products with real surfaces, research artifacts with public evidence, and agent infrastructure built around verification.
Products
Live or product-shaped systems where the work has a real user and business surface.
AI legal workspace2026
Jurevo
AI legal workspace for Italian legal professionals, combining a public site, authenticated web app, backend API, mobile app, billing, storage, and versioned workflow packs.
Flagship product. The strongest proof that the research and engineering loop can become a usable SaaS surface.
- Product
- TypeScript
- SaaS
- Legal AI
Founder · research umbrella2026
Limes Labs
Public research lab for European AI systems, benchmarks, orchestration, model cards, compute-access notes, and reproducible research artifacts.
The umbrella that connects the papers, benchmark infrastructure, agent tooling, and governance work.
- Founder
- Research
- European AI
Research artifacts
Source-backed work where the important output is an argument, a release, or a reproducible artifact.
Paper · RL credit assignment2026
The Broadcast Ceiling
Limes Labs paper on information and reliability limits of advantage estimators in long-horizon RL, released with source, PDF, GitHub archive, and Zenodo DOI.
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20970205
- Paper
- RL
- LaTeX
- Zenodo
Sovereign AI platform2026
Limes Axis
Open-source control plane for European operations: typed workflows, permissions, audit trails, model egress boundaries, approvals, and governed agent actions.
- Platform
- Governance
- AI operations
Research workstream2026
Learning Signal Density
Controlled causal-domain audit studying how much useful learning signal can be extracted from each external observation through selection, transformation, replay, feedback, and internal compute.
- Research
- Efficiency
- Python
Routing and orchestration2026
Limen
Open orchestration primitives for routing tasks across models, roles, workflows, LoRA adapters, and verifier-style execution loops.
- Python
- Routing
- Agents
Agent and open-source systems
Libraries and tools for making AI systems observable, verifiable, and easier to operate.
Open-source robot runtime2025
TarsGPT
Self-contained TARS-inspired robot runtime with voice, movement, dashboard, long-term memory, vision, skills, and bilingual build documentation.
- Python
- Robotics
- OpenAI
Reliability studio for computer-use agents2026
TracePilot
Product and eval harness for browser and desktop agents: traces, replay, verifiers, recovery policies, and reliability metrics.
- TypeScript
- Agents
- Evals
Evidence-gated agent workflows2026
VO Agent
Python library for coordinating agent workflows where claims advance only after command or Python verifiers produce evidence.
- Python
- Verification
- Workflows
Benchmark challenge factory2026
Benchforge
Local-first factory for benchmark arenas with challenge-specific CLIs, submission bundles, verifier receipts, and hosted leaderboard exports.
- JavaScript
- Benchmarks
- Verifiers
Secondary archive: Scriba, Aurion, Bite, OpenAlphaEvolve, GPT-2 from scratch, Stable Diffusion from scratch, and other experiments live on GitHub.
Skills
- Languages
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Swift
- Solidity
- Rust
- Frameworks & Runtimes
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Electron
- SwiftUI
- PyTorch
- Tailwind
- AI / ML
- OpenAI APIs
- LLM agents
- YOLO
- OpenCV
- Stable Diffusion
- GPT-2 from scratch
- Tools & Platforms
- Git
- Docker
- Vercel
- Web3.js
- Ethereum
- Linux
GitHub
Live · @metaforismoLast 12 months of commits. Pick a palette below.
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Experience & Education
- Sep 2024 · Expected 2027
BSc Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence
Università della Calabria
Active member of the teaching quality committee, advocating for student interests and academic improvements.
- May · Jun 2024
Hackathon · AI for Anti-Counterfeiting
Codemotion × Poligrafico Italiano
Delivered an MVP virtual assistant addressing global counterfeiting via AI-driven data tracing for the Made in Italy supply chain.
- Mar 2020 · Present
Social Media Manager
Personal Brand
Built a personal media presence from zero around tech, design and storytelling.
- 18K+ Instagram
- 50K+ TikTok
- 4M+ views · 2.5M+ likes
- 5+ brand partnerships
- 2016 · Present
Volunteer · ENSA & ASS.A.P.L.I.
Italy
Civil protection, road safety education, and community initiatives. Organised 'Babbo Natale in Corsia', featured on LaC News 24.
Certifications
- Boolean Coding Week · Arcade Collection · BooleanOct 2024
- OII · Italian Olympiad in Informatics · MIURApr 2024
- Epicode Tech Camp · 9th Edition · EpicodeMay 2024
- AICA ICDL Full Standard · AICASep 2022
Writing
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Interested in working together? Drop me a line, I read everything.
Links
- GitHubmetaforismo
- LinkedInfrancescogiannicola
- X / Twitter@fragiannicola
- Instagram@francescogiannicolaa
- YouTubechannel
- Sourcegithub.com/metaforismo/portfolio