About
Eternal Spring is a blog about the random things I learn and experiment with. I like taking notes, even for very short concepts, so, expect to find writing, notes, and fragments on software, math, and martial arts.
I’m Stefano, a software engineer based in Berlin. I’m interested in distributed systems, decentralized finance, and all the math around them.
Figure 1: A shot of me and Topolino.
I mainly work on open-source projects, and in the past years I contributed to the first stablecoin chain (Noble Core), a Cosmos SDK module to expose go-ethereum EVM (evmos, Cosmos SDK), and a bunch of other interesting things, in particular an abstraction layer on top of cross-chain bridges like IBC, CCTP, and Hyperlane called Orbiter.
Before developing my passion for computers and finance, I did research at the intersection of machine-learning and aerospace structural analysis. I was fascinated by instability phenomena in cylindrical shapes and how to efficiently optimize them without solving complex non-linear equations. It was incredible to realize, despite the math being quite clear, that an instability phenomena can create artistic shapes. Art in destruction, or destruction in the art? I spent around 1 year during my PhD implementing feed-forward neural nets combined with bio-inspired optimization algorithms, like the particle swarm optimization. Why only 1 year? Well, I dropped out :).
Work stuff aside, I love martial arts, and one day I dream of opening my own gym. I practiced Judo for around 13 years. When I was 18, I placed 3rd at the Italian championships, and I hold a second-dan black belt. If you’ve never tried judo, I strongly recommend it! From Japan to China, I recently started studying Kung Fu, specifically the Wing Chun lineage from Leung Ting.