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
2024 — 2025
2023
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.
2023 — 2024
Put together an 8-person team of engineering students. Initiated and developed 3 projects from scratch.
Small Projects
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.
A Python tool that analyses cross-correlation between two stocks in low timeframes. Also performed backtest for the strategy and forecasting.
A web application that plots seasonality charts for the most important commodities, also providing statistical metrics.
Books I'm Reading
Get In Touch
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↗