MATTIA V.

BIO

I have been building for the web since the early 2000s, beginning with manual coding in lightweight text editors. Core stack includes vanilla HTML/CSS for structure and styling, JavaScript for client-side interactivity, PHP for server-side logic, and MySQL/MariaDB for data persistence, schema design, and query optimization.

Early engineering work involved frontend and backend development, experimentation, R&D, agency freelancing, and direct client work.

End-to-end full-stack projects involved team collaboration and partnerships, serving as developer, technical coordinator, or consultant. Responsibilities included frontend implementation (HTML/CSS/JS), backend development (PHP, MariaDB/MySQL), strategic planning, product design, branding, server administration (Nginx on Linux, self-hosted and cloud), monetization features (subscriptions, payment gateways, cryptocurrency payment flows). I focus on lightweight code, minimal dependencies, performance, visual polish, and UX.

My systems and security expertise covers operational security, privacy, Linux administration and web-server setup (specialized distributions for privacy, forensics, and analysis), hardened infrastructures, and independent deployment of production-grade webservers.

Bitcoin and blockchain work began in 2013 with experiments in the node environment, mining setups, wallet and cold storage management, and development of custom crypto infrastructure. This provided direct insight into decentralized systems, incentives, scalability, and monetary sovereignty.

Since 2019, I've operated as an independent professional, managing the full lifecycle of web products solo—from initial concept and research to implementation, deployment, and maintenance of self-sustaining, scalable, and performant systems.