Privacy & Tech Counsel
always exploring and seeking after knowledge
I am a technology counsel and qualified lawyer with 10+ years of post-qualification experience, focused on bridging the gap between complex legal frameworks and digital innovation. For the last four years, I’ve been working side by side with engineering teams to build Italy's digital public infrastructures, embedding privacy by design throughout the entire software development lifecycle. Since the late 90s, I've been a hobbyist coder and a curiosity-driven geek. This has allowed me to build an extensive knowledge of IT systems, spanning from hardware and software to networking and cloud architectures. I’ve always built my own tools - long before it was mainstream - but today, AI coding assistants are giving me the boost in time and abilities I've always needed to pursue my product ideas. They empower me to build exactly what I want, allowing me to approach legal challenges with the developer mindset I've cultivated. Throughout my career, I've tried to connect the dots between my passion for technology and my legal studies, and I feel like I'm getting nearer to that perfect intersection every day.
The Privacy Center is a static website meant to centralize multilingual privacy notices for multiple applications, built with Eleventy and deployable on GitHub Pages or any static host. Alongside the human-facing website, the build generates a full CDN API. Content is authored in Markdown and managed through Git, so every change is auditable, every approval goes through a pull request, and the repository history is the compliance trail. Notices are organized by application and language, with each app having its own directory containing metadata, icons, and versioned notice files. When a notice changes, old versions are automatically archived, keeping a clean history with stable URLs. The system detects when a translation is missing or outdated, surfacing a warning banner to users.