Software engineer
I build AI-powered applications, cloud-native platforms on Kubernetes and, in my spare time, things like emulators in Rust.
MSc in Computer Engineering · Politecnico di Torino
Hello! I'm Nicolò Fontana, a software engineer with a passion for creating scalable, efficient, and clean code. I graduated from Politecnico di Torino with a master degree in Computer Engineering, where I honed my skills in software development, problem-solving, and teamwork.
Full-stack development using modern enterprise technologies.
Specialized in software engineering. Gained expertise in JPA, Hibernate, Rust and modern web frameworks.
Foundation in computer science, C, object-oriented programming, Linux, Node.js and databases.
A cycle-accurate Nintendo Entertainment System emulator in Rust, with video, audio and input, NTSC and PAL machines detected from the ROM header, and 43 mappers including MMC5, VRC6, VRC7, N163 and Sunsoft 5B expansion audio.
A production retrieval-augmented generation system: a LangGraph agent built as a seven-node self-correcting pipeline, answering questions over a company document base with citations.
A multi-tenant supply-chain tracking platform built on the GS1 EPCIS 2.0 standard for a large food manufacturer: receiving, manufacturing, packing, shipping and cold-chain events from raw material to finished product.
A design-and-evaluation studio for heating plants (heat pumps, boilers, thermal and electrical storage). Engineers describe a plant in natural language; an LLM agent turns it into a validated model rendered as an editable graph.
Turns long PDF dossiers into a trustworthy, queryable knowledge graph of entities, relationships, claims and conflicts, with human review and an analyst front end.
Every Marvel Studios film and series in a suggested order, and for any title exactly what you still need to watch first.
Turns years of customer-support email into a curated, publishable FAQ knowledge base.
A Hogwarts sorting ceremony as a web app: an AI Sorting Hat interviews you, adapts its questions to your answers and picks your house.
A support portal with separate inboxes for technical support, sales and orders, built around a strict ticket state machine.
A BPMN-based system that models and automates the end-to-end operations of a poultry company, with Camunda as the workflow engine and a microservices architecture.
Single sign-on for a suite of business applications on Keycloak: custom Java extensions, tailored authentication flows and the migration of existing user accounts.
A web mapping platform to explore and search geographic data: interactive vector maps with location search and pins, backed by a spatial database.
A web application to compute the electrical loads of an installation, with guided forms, charts and background calculation jobs on AWS.
A web application on Kubernetes to manage and display raster and vector geospatial data, built with Politecnico di Torino as part of the NODES project.
A web version of the final game of the Italian TV show L’Eredità: win five clue words, then find the one word that ties them together in sixty seconds. Playable in 22 languages, including right-to-left ones.
A Super Mario World level editor written from scratch in Rust, with a modern Tauri UI: open a real ROM, browse and render levels, edit objects and sprites, and save back to the ROM.
A web front end for SimulationCraft: upload a World of Warcraft character and run sims, stat weights, gear comparisons and raid-loot sims.
A small static-site and SPA web server in Rust with in-memory caching, packaged as a base image. It serves several of my sites in production.
A team app to coordinate office presence: sign each day as in office, remote or away, pick an office, and see on a calendar who will be there.
The web console of a multi-cluster workload-placement research platform: a catalog of jobs defined as YAML templates, launch forms generated from their placeholders, and run tracking.
A Spring Boot application that integrates PayPal payments into a shopping-cart flow.
A Flutter mobile app to manage Kubernetes clusters from a phone: import kubeconfigs into secure storage, browse resources by namespace, follow events and inspect Helm releases.
A bot that watches saved eBay searches and sends a Telegram alert as soon as a listing appears below the target price.
A web application for managing university theses, built by the CodeCrafters team with Scrum: React front end, Spring Boot back end and SAML single sign-on.
A roguelike game prototype in Unity: procedurally generated levels of an ever-changing castle, randomized challenges and strategic combat.
Dozens of smaller tools, prototypes and experiments that didn't make this list, from weekend hacks to production infrastructure.
Projects marked Private are closed-source or client work, so they are described without links.