Founder · Engineer · Systems Architect
From certified aircraft to autonomous vessels, from armed forces to ocean economy — the method is always the same. Start from first principles. Build with precision. Deliver what others are still discussing.
My first company was an aircraft manufacturer. I designed an aeroplane from a blank sheet and brought it to its maiden flight in eight months, then through full certification eighteen months later.
That experience shaped everything that followed: when something real carries human life, rigour is not optional.
Blackshape became fifteen years of aircraft engineering, certification and industrial work, engaging with armed forces, ministries and aerospace organisations across several countries.
Today I work on autonomous maritime systems and information intelligence with Mirai Tech. The domain has extended — from the sky to the sea — but the method remains the same.
Start from first principles.
Understand the system.
Build with precision.
I studied aerospace engineering in Turin, mechanical engineering in Lausanne and space law in Paris.
Outside engineering I remain close to disciplines that demand the same form of attention: the piano, the violin and flying aircraft.
Different materials.
The same pursuit of precision.
To see what I am building, Ganymedes is my personal holding: capital allocation, advanced engineering, and long-term portfolio building. It is where everything connects.
Visit Ganymedes →The conversations I find most interesting rarely happen in public. They happen in cockpits, over dinner, in engineering rooms — between people who actually build things. This is an attempt to make some of that thinking audible.
First Principles is a podcast and a space for writing. Episodes alternate between long conversations with people whose work I respect, and solo reflections on engineering, music, sovereignty, and the discipline behind building things.
Defence strategists, aerospace engineers, classical musicians, physicists, founders who have built something real.
Shorter pieces — written or recorded — where I think about a single idea. European sovereignty, the experience of performing, what the world looks like from five thousand feet.
When there is something worth saying. No fixed schedule, no filler. Quality over cadence.
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