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Francesco Giannicola

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.

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 from Interstellar — replicating most of the robot's behaviour with ChatGPT and Whisper for natural language, voice and motion.

CategoryRobotics × LLM
StatusShipped
Year2025
Stars15
PythonOpenAIWhisperComputer Vision
metaforismo/TarsGPT

OpenAlphaEvolve

DeepMind's AlphaEvolve, open-source and from scratch. LLM-driven evolutionary search that discovers and refines better algorithms.

CategoryAI · Evolution
StatusResearch
Year2025
PythonLLMsGenetic algorithms
metaforismo/OpenAlphaEvolve

Apex2

Open rebuild of Apex2, the SOTA agent on Terminal-Bench. Tool use, planning, and recovery from failing terminal commands.

CategoryAI Agents
StatusIn progress
Year2025
PythonLLMsTool calling
metaforismo/Apex2

Aurion

A real-time, pausable grand-strategy game: lead a small nation to global power through research, espionage, military, diplomacy and internal politics.

CategoryFull-Stack · Strategy
StatusIn progress
Year2026
TypeScriptNext.jsReactVercel
metaforismo/aurion

Ziba

An open-source second brain fusing Notion's typed databases with Obsidian's local-first markdown and graph — built as an Electron desktop app.

CategoryPersonal Tools
StatusIn progress
Year2026
TypeScriptElectronMarkdown
metaforismo/Ziba

LifeGrid

A private, local-only habit & goal tracker for iOS with a GitHub-style contribution heatmap. Your streaks, never leaving the device.

CategoryiOS · SwiftUI
StatusIn progress
Year2026
SwiftSwiftUIiOS
metaforismo/LifeGrid

More on github.com/metaforismo.

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

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

Get in touch

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

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