📘Portfolio

Francesco Giannicola

Computer Science & AI Student at Università della Calabria.

Location
Cosenza, Italy
🎓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.

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

AI / ML Engineering

Models, agents and inference pipelines, from fine-tuning to LLM-powered products.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • OpenAI APIs

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

TarsGPT

A real-life TARS replicating ~95% of the original's functionalities, powered by ChatGPT and Whisper for natural language and motion.

CategoryRobotics × LLM
StatusShipped
Year2024
Stars15
PythonOpenAIWhisperComputer Vision
metaforismo/tarsgpt

DeVoSy

Decentralised voting on Ethereum. Immutable ballots, transparent tallying, scaled to thousands of concurrent voters.

CategoryBlockchain × Web3
StatusShipped
Year2023
SolidityWeb3.jsReactEthereum
metaforismo/devosy

Apex2

Open rebuild of the Apex2 agent, current SOTA on TerminalBench. Tool use, planning, and recovery from terminal failures.

CategoryAI Agents
StatusIn progress
Year2026
PythonLLMsTool calling
metaforismo/apex2

OpenAlphaEvolve

DeepMind's AlphaEvolve, open-source and from scratch. LLM-driven evolutionary search to discover better algorithms.

CategoryAI · Evolution
StatusResearch
Year2026
PythonLLMsGenetic algorithms
metaforismo/openalphaevolve

Synapsium

A second brain with first-class presets for Movies, Books and YouTube. One place to think across media.

CategoryPersonal Tools
StatusIn progress
Year2025
TypeScriptNext.jsLocal-first
metaforismo/synapsium

Football Analysis

YOLO-based player and ball tracking pipeline. Extracts tactical insights from match footage.

CategoryComputer Vision
StatusShipped
Year2024
PythonYOLOOpenCVKMeans
metaforismo/football-analysis

More on github.com/metaforismo.

Skills

Languages
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Solidity
  • Rust
  • HTML
  • CSS
Frameworks & Runtimes
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Tailwind
AI / ML
  • OpenAI APIs
  • YOLO
  • OpenCV
  • Stable Diffusion
  • GPT2 from scratch
  • LLM agents
Tools & Platforms
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Vercel
  • Web3.js
  • Ethereum
  • Linux

GitHub

Last 12 months of commits. Pick a palette below.

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Experience & Education

  1. BSc Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

    Università della Calabria

    Active member of the teaching quality committee, advocating for student interests and academic improvements.

    Sep 2024 · Expected 2027

  2. 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.

    May · Jun 2024

  3. 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
    Mar 2020 · Present

  4. 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.

    2016 · Present

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

📝
Articles coming soon. Notes on building TarsGPT, why AlphaEvolve matters, and what I'm learning at uni.

Get in touch

🤝

Interested in working together? Drop me a line, I read everything.

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