Design Technologist — San Francisco
Hardware, software,and the people in between.
About
I'm a design technologist based in San Francisco. I design and prototype products where hardware, software, and people meet.
I'm currently at Amazon Lab126. Before that, I shipped rider-experience features for the Zoox robotaxi and built autonomous systems at MIT Senseable City Lab. Earlier, after training as an architect in Italy, I worked in interaction design, building installations shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and La Biennale di Venezia.
Selected work
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Zoox
- Year
- 2022–2025
- Type
- Product Design
On the Rider Experience team at Zoox, I built the in-vehicle prototyping systems that let designers tune how a driverless robotaxi communicates with riders through light, sound, and proximity, and shipped production features including early research behind Find My Zoox.
Roboat
- Year
- 2016–2022
- Type
- Research Project
- With
- MIT Senseable City Lab
At the MIT Senseable City Lab, I led concept design, naval architecture, and hardware prototyping for Roboat, a fleet of modular self-driving boats for Amsterdam's canals. Scaling the vessels from 1:4 models to full-size 4-meter boats helped secure €25 million in city funding and spin the project out as Roboat.Tech.
Scribit
- Year
- 2018
- Type
- Product Design
- With
- Carlo Ratti Associati
At Carlo Ratti Associati, I engineered Scribit, a wall-climbing robot that draws and erases on any vertical surface. It raised $4 million on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, made TIME's Best Inventions, and won a Red Dot Design Award.
