2024 – Present
FluxMateria
FluxMateria represents the convergence of Roberto’s engineering instincts with his physics research — a computational platform built in Python that computes molecular and materials properties from geometry, not approximation. Deterministic, auditable, and orders of magnitude faster than conventional methods.
150+ API endpoints, multi-tenant architecture, and ten specialised computation modules — where 25 years of building systems meets a new way of understanding what systems are made of.
2018 – Present • Brussels & Sardinia
European Commission
Since 2018, Roberto has worked with the European Commission as a freelance Lead Application Architect, contributing to enterprise-scale modernisation efforts built on Angular, PHP/ColdFusion, and Oracle that serve institutions across the European Union.
Beyond modernisation, he is currently designing a large-scale staff and resource management tool for DG ECHO, the EU’s Humanitarian Aid department — a complex system where architecture decisions directly affect how the EU coordinates humanitarian response worldwide.
2008 – 2016 • Vermont
BlogSparks Network
Back in Vermont, Roberto founded BlogSparks Network — a SaaS platform built on PHP and Python. Its flagship product, The Foodie Blogroll, was an ad network that grew to 10 million monthly users and €1 million ARR. The company raised funds and merged with Yummie Nation, and scaled the combined operation into one of the largest food blogging networks online.
Eight years of building, fundraising, and scaling a product that served millions — handling high-traffic infrastructure, ad-tech integrations, and the kind of real-world engineering problems that only show up at scale.
2005 – 2006 • Massachusetts
CEPA Technologies
Roberto co-founded CEPA Technologies in Massachusetts, building a voice assistant platform years before such systems entered the mainstream. The company developed early voice AI and natural language processing technology at a time when conversational interfaces were still largely theoretical — before Siri, before Alexa, before the world caught up.
CEPA was an early signal of a recurring instinct: build the thing that doesn’t exist yet, in a space nobody is looking at yet.
2000 – 2004 • Billerica, MA
Integrated Apps
After moving to the United States, Roberto co-founded Integrated Apps LLC in Massachusetts. Starting as VP of Product Development and later becoming CTO, he led the design and development of web-based server-side software tools — email, file, and contact management applications built for enterprise intranets.
Nearly five years of managing the full product lifecycle, from core development and UI design to project management and mentoring junior developers. The kind of full-stack founding role where you build the product, ship it, and fix what breaks at 2am.
1996 – 1997 • Rome, Italy
Punto A.L. / IBM
In the mid-1990s, when the web was still something most people in Italy had only read about, Roberto co-founded Punto A.L. in Rome — one of the earliest web design studios in the city. The company created websites for IBM Internet Service Providers and designed and programmed an online virtual shopping mall.
As Lead Web Solutions Architect and UX/UI Designer, he led a small team of designers and developers at a time when building for the web meant inventing the rules as you went.
