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About me
I'm Michele, a software engineer with a computer science degree, based in Lausanne.
I spent five years building products for companies in Tokyo, have worked with teams in Lausanne, Switzerland, and now lead backend architecture for a multi-tenant HR platform.
I care about delivering software well: fast, with good quality, and meeting every requirement you set. Behind that are clean architecture, tested code, and talking directly with the people who use what I build. Over the years that has meant APIs, web apps, mobile apps and, more recently, AI agents that do real work.

What I care about
I measure my work by one thing: did you get what you needed, when you needed it, and does it keep working? These are the promises behind every project.
Delivering what you actually need
I start by understanding your goals, your customers and your constraints, and we write the requirements down together. The aim is software that solves your problem, not software that is simply easy to build.
Delivering fast
Every week of delay is a week without new customers or without the time you would have saved. I work in short steps, show you progress often, and use AI-assisted workflows to move faster without skipping the checks.
Quality you can rely on
Careful, tested work means fewer breakdowns, fewer emergency calls and fewer unpleasant surprises for your customers. Problems are caught by automated tests and reviews before they reach anyone who matters to you.
Meeting every requirement
Before I hand anything over, I check the finished work against the agreed list, point by point. What we agreed on is what you get, with nothing quietly forgotten along the way.
No surprises
You get a clear scope, a clear timeline and honest updates. If something affects your budget, your deadline or your risk, you hear it early, from me, in words you can act on.
Plain language
You do not need to understand programming to work with me. I explain every choice in business terms: what it costs, what it saves, what could go wrong and what I recommend.
Built to last and to grow
I build software your team can keep using and extending, with documentation and a proper hand-over. You should never depend on one person, me included, to keep it running.
Your business first
Technology is only a means: more customers, less manual work, fewer errors, faster decisions. If something is not worth building, I will tell you before you spend money on it.
Skills
Backend
- PHP (Laravel)
- Python (FastAPI)
- API architecture
- Microservices
- DDD, SOLID, CQRS
Frontend
- ReactJS
- VueJS
- SASS
- Storybook
- PWA
Mobile
- React Native
- iOS releases
- Android releases
Data
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Airflow
- Schema design
- Query optimisation
DevOps
- Docker
- AWS
- Redis
- GitHub Actions CI/CD
- Datadog
- Sentry
- Mixpanel
Quality
- PHPUnit, Pest, Pytest
- TDD
- Integration and E2E tests
- Code review
AI
- AI coding agents
- Multi-agent workflows
- Prompt engineering
- AI-assisted code review
- LLM integrations
Leadership
- Technical leadership
- Architecture design
- Estimation
- Mentoring
- Agile / Scrum
Why IkigaiHubs
Ikigai (生き甲斐) is a Japanese idea of a reason for being: the place where what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs and what you can be paid for meet. IkigaiHubs is built around the same idea. Work that matters, done well, for people who need it.
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science
Languages
- PortugueseNative
- EnglishFluent
- JapaneseAdvanced (JLPT N2/N3)
- SpanishIntermediate
- FrenchIntermediate, currently learning
Let's work together
Tell me what you want to build or fix. I reply within one business day.
Let's talk about your projectWant to know what your project would cost? Get in touch and I'll prepare a quote.