About
Eternal Spring is a blog about the random things I learn and experiment with during my work and free time. Expect to find writing, notes, and fragments on software design, decentralized finance applications, math, and martial arts.
I'm Stefano, a software engineer based in Belrin working in the
decentralized systems industry.
I'm interested cross-chain data
exchange, decentralized finance, and system architecture.
I've contributed
to a stablecoin app-specific chain (Noble Core), a chain module that integrates go-ethereum in a Cosmos SDK-based chain (evmos, Cosmos SDK), and a bunch of other nice things, including an abstraction
layer on top of cross-chain bridges like IBC, CCTP, and Hyperlane called Orbiter.
I enjoy spending time creating my own tools, and I like them to be simple and minimal. This interest led me to develop a terminal-centric workflow, mainly based on Neovim and Tmux.
Figure 1: A shot of me and Topolino.
Before developing my passion for computers and finance, I did (or maybe tried to do…) research at the intersection of machine-learning-assisted simulations and aerospace structural analysis. I was fascinated by instability phenomena in cylindrical shapes. How can people not be fascinated by that, right? It was incredible to realize, despite the math being quite clear,that an instability phenomenon could create such artistic shapes. Art in destruction, or destruction in the art? I spent a good amount of time implementing feedforward neural networks (I knooow, they're old, but it was a long time ago) that worked beautifully when combined with bio-inspired optimization algorithms like particle swarm optimization
Work stuff aside, I love martial arts, and one day I dream of opening my own gym. I practiced Judo for around 13 years . I placed 3rd at the Italian championships when I was 18, and I hold a second-dan black belt. I love my Mizuno belt, directly from Japan. 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, and I love it!