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Learning how to live and maximizing intentionality

About

People often ask what I do. But that was never the question. What matters is why I do it. And how.

At fifteen, my restless search for personal fulfillment began. The first breach was a programming course. The second, writing code around crypto. Everything pulled me deeper. I've never been satisfied with each project. I've always been hungry for more.

I don't study to become something. I do it to stretch the part of me that wants to understand how reality is built, how problems collapse under the right pressure. Engineering is a lens to me, not a profession. Mathematics, a language for thinking more honestly.

I never knew who I wanted to become. And for a long time, I couldn't even name what I was chasing. I thought it was programming. Then called it 'fintech' for some years. At the end I understood: I want to be a quant trader. Not because the title fits, but because it's the closest description of what I've always been moving toward, a mind trained to operate where mathematics meets markets.

I honestly don't think existence has a meaning. I've made peace with that. What's left, then, is the question of how to spend the time, and the most intellectually honest distraction I've found is capital markets. Not for the money. Nowhere else does uncertainty sit so openly on the table, where probability, human behavior, and structural complexity all live together. That's why I study Mathematical Engineering, specializing in quantitative finance.

Philosophy followed naturally. I'm not a theorist: I have no interest in academic posturing, and I would not be able to talk about it. But Camus taught me to live without resolution. Nietzsche, to stop waiting for permission. Kafka, that the absurd isn't an exception but the architecture. Kant, that what we can know is already filtered through what we are.

But hunger, I've learned, is never really about the thing you're hungry for.

At eighteen, I left Palermo and enrolled in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. High noise, high density. The right place for someone who doesn't know how to slow down.

I never stopped building. Or training. Or starting things. I move fast between projects, between sports, between obsessions. I'm not chasing mastery in any single thing. I'm chasing the feeling of being fully inside something that demands everything from me.

Making money interests me the same way. Not for what it buys. For what it proves. It's a game with immediate feedback, high stakes, and no ceiling. That's the only kind of game I find worth playing.

Now, I'm here, studying myself, which is, I think, the only project without a deadline.

Some days, everything feels coherent. Others, everything feels absurd.

But either way, I keep digging.

Experiences & Projects

01

2024 — 2025

Internship in Valuation Risk Management Unicredit

Institutional TradingDerivatives PricingRisk Management
02

2024 — Present

Founder & CEO Sharpee

Why does backtesting a portfolio have to be such a nightmare? Messy Excel files, broken Python scripts, and unreliable data. Backtesting should be smart, not painful.

Portfolio BacktestingBonds PricingFull StackProject Management
03

2022 — Present

Co-Founder Your Style On Sale

Started as a Telegram channel about discounts in the fashion landscape, it's now becoming a reference point for emerging brands in Italy.

Next.jsSocial MediaStartup
04

2023

Developer masag.it

Built the entire e-commerce platform for a brico/DIY products brand from scratch. Covers database architecture, backend API, frontend, on-page SEO, and a CI/CD pipeline that keeps the product catalog in sync with local supplier inventory automatically.

Next.jsPostgreSQLFull-stackSEOCI/CDE-commerce
05

2023 — 2024

Head of Finance — Quantitative Starting Finance Club PoliMi

Put together an 8-person team of engineering students. Initiated and developed 3 projects from scratch.

Quantitative FinanceProject ManagementPythonData Science
06

2023

Engramma

Engramma uses neuroscience to create an intelligent study plan, generate summaries at the right moment, and ask you active recall questions. All automatically.

NeuroscienceFrontend Development
07

2022 — Present

YouTube Personal Channel

Made videos about personal finance and investing. Analysed and discussed different approaches using Python. More than 150,000 views.

Public SpeakingVideo EditingPersonal Finance

Small Projects

01

Portfolio Visualizer

Private

A web application that provides European investors with all the tools to backtest their portfolios, offering useful statistical metrics. Focused on stocks, ETFs, and bonds.

Next.jsFastAPIPersonal Finance
02

Stocks Correlation

Private

A Python tool that analyses cross-correlation between two stocks in low timeframes. Also performed backtest for the strategy and forecasting.

Data ScienceMachine LearningPython
03

Dollar Cost Averaging VS Value Averaging

A Python tool that analyses the differences in returns between Dollar Cost Averaging and Value Averaging, also providing the amount the investor should invest in each asset each month.

Data ScienceInvesting StrategiesPython
04

Commodities Seasonality

Private

A web application that plots seasonality charts for the most important commodities, also providing statistical metrics.

Next.jsFastAPIPythonData Visualization
05

Store a Dream

A web application that enables the user to leave a message and save it automatically to the Ethereum test blockchain. The idea: leave something important written forever.

React.jsSolidityHTML & CSS

Books I'm Reading

Lo StranieroAlbert Camus
The (mis)behaviour of marketsBenoît Mandelbrot
Option Volatility and PricingSheldon Natenberg

Get In Touch

Have something in mind?
Let's talk.

I'm always open to new opportunities and interesting projects. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi — I'm here.

info@albertotoia.com