About Francesco Bilotta

This is just one big page where I write about myself, without needing it to be useful.

Last updated: 2026-10-16

Timeline

• 2014–2016. Middle school, and no map.
  I taught myself to build things. No course, nobody to ask.
  I built a working virtual-reality headset from scratch.
  Unity and Unreal crashed on anything 3D, so I moved to Godot.
  I wired the hardware with Arduino.
  The Windows serial driver I needed did not exist, so I wrote my own.
  I built an 8-bit CPU by hand, wire by wire, and a graphics engine in C++.
  Everything I needed was in English: university PDFs, Google, YouTube.
  I hated the language.
  I learned it anyway, because the answers were only there.
  Yes, I was a bit curious.
• 2016–2021. High school, and much more than high school.
  I graduated from a technical high school: mechatronics, robotics, automation.
  In the summer of 2018, at sixteen, I was hired as a full-stack developer.
  From then on I always worked as a developer in my free time.
  I learned Japanese to a B1-B2 in three years, enough to follow films and read manga.
  Then German (a strong B1) and French (a B2) by 2021.
  I also read far outside school, anything I could get my hands on.
  Marketing and business first, then psychology, sustainability, history, philosophy and theology.
• 2021. University, and work alongside it.
  I started Management Engineering at the University of Parma.
  My first corporate developer job, at Ferrari Group, had just ended.
  For a while I worked part-time at a McDonald's near campus.
  Then I went back to engineering, in remote teams, mostly on blockchain.
  At Dreamnet, for example, I worked on a ticketing marketplace and a betting dApp.
  I also started my own independent research.
  University ran through all of it. I still taught myself most of what mattered.
• 2023. Senior Software Engineer, then Principal Engineer.
  Grandi Agenzie, a large real-estate agency franchise, hired me as a senior software engineer.
  Today it is HouseTree S.p.A.
  I was their first and only in-house engineer, after twenty years of vendor lock-in.
  I inherited a twenty-year-old management system.
  In 2026 I became Principal Engineer of the group.
  Then I led the migration.
  I rebuilt the system module by module, with zero downtime.
• 2025. Cocreiamo.
  I started freelancing on the side.
  Then I founded Cocreiamo, with many dead ideas along the way.
  It is what I was looking for at sixteen, reading everything I could find.
  A Christian way of doing business.
  I want to become a spiritual entrepreneur. I am not one yet.

Off the keyboard

I used to practise Jiu-Jitsu. I want to start again.

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