Sam · Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer
I design systems for the moments things go wrong.
Master’s student in Software Engineering at the Free University of Bolzano. Currently building a distributed workflow orchestration engine, and researching how systems behave when failure intensity rises.
Selected work
CONDUCTOR
A Temporal and Prefect inspired workflow orchestration engine in Python. Durable execution, retries, and failure recovery, built in public.
Promotional Leaflet Pipeline
A production scraper pulling weekly promo leaflets from 41 European supermarket chains into Azure Blob Storage.
NOVA
A voice-capable personal assistant built on the Gemini API, with tool calling and persistent memory.