Jan 2026 — Present
Technical Lead
Reply / Enel
Planning development work, coordinating delivery and working on AI agents connected to internal knowledge bases.
Building software with a strong feeling for the details.
Softwareengineerby nature.
I’m Lorenzo Palaia — a Rome-based engineer interested in product development, AI, developer tools, automation and ideas best understood by building them.
An independent portfolio
as a piece of software.
as a piece of software.
01 / Experience
Work, as a timeline of systems.
Roles and collaborations, arranged as a path rather than a conventional CV.
Oct 2025 — Jun 2026
Technical Lead / Support Engineer
Reply / Nexi
Supporting payment and authentication systems, with a practical focus on incident resolution and reliability.
Sep 2025 — Dec 2025
Fullstack Developer
Reply / Enel
Building enterprise applications across Angular frontends and backend-for-frontend systems orchestrated with Apache Camel and Kafka.
2019 — Present
Software Developer
Freelance / Independent
Designing and maintaining websites, bots, trackers and digital tools for private and corporate clients.
02 / Selected work
Useful things, built to be explored.
Four products that make systems, information and familiar development workflows easier to move through.
Reading live GitHub signal…
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Platform
02HackTrack-EU
HackTrack-EU is a platform for discovering hackathons across Europe, helping developers and tech enthusiasts find upcoming events and opportunities to participate.
TypeScriptNextJSTailwindCSS
Repository
03Blocktracr
A website that allows you to view the market data of each cryptocurrency and to have a detailed report of your wallet connected to a centralized exchange
TypeScriptNextJSTailwindCSS
Repository
04Neural-Style-Transfer-and-Genre-Classification
The project aims to create a classifier of musical genres and to perform a neural style transfer between two audio tracks using spectrograms
PythonJupyter NotebookPureBasic
Repository
Arduino-Oscilloscope
An Arduino-based oscilloscope for timed sampling of up to 8 ADC channels, with real-time data streaming to a PC for analysis and visualization.
CShellMakefile
03 / AboutSYSTEM / PERSON
I like the point where a useful system becomes a good experience.
I’m a Software Engineer at Reply and a Computer and Automation Engineering graduate from Sapienza University of Rome. I work across product thinking and implementation, with a practical interest in how software behaves in the real world.
My orbit includes artificial intelligence, blockchain, finance, interfaces, automation and creative technology. The common thread is curiosity: making something is usually the fastest way to understand it.
NextJSTypeScriptTailwindCSSReactAngularVueDockerSupabaseNodeJS
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04 / Lab
Things I build to see what happens.
An experimental surface for curiosity, open source and applied technical exploration.
- 01
Machine vision
Developed object detection and terrain mapping systems for UAVs, training YOLOv5 and EfficientNet models on custom datasets and connecting them to ground-station software.
- 02
Generative systems
Experiments spanning neural style transfer, genre classification and AI-generated music, including a collaborative Reply project built around Stable Audio Open.
- 03
Open source
Contributed features, accessibility improvements, UI fixes and refactors to projects including Tailark, Plane, Filepizza, JSON Crack, tweakcn, Origin UI and Maybe Finance.
- 01
Outsourcing and Technical Debt: Managing the Trade-offs
2025 - 02
Why Real-World Coding Beats LeetCode: The Case for Practical Technical Interviews
2025 - 03
Negativity Bias and the Tech Job Search: Breaking Free from the Cycle in 2025
2025 - 04
Apple's Liquid Glass: A Beautiful Design Revolution with Contrast Challenges
2025
ContactAvailable for interesting systems.