Who I Am
My name is Stefano Tranquillini, but everybody calls me Stefano.
I'm a computer scientist who crossed from academic research into entrepreneurship and never fully left either world.
INTP-T by nature. I like building systems, untangling hard problems, and occasionally overengineering things just to understand how they work at a fundamental level.
- 2025–03 CHINO.io acquired by Gruppo Sicuro
- 2014–12 Founded CHINO.io
- 2014–03 PhD defended · Computer Science · University of Trento
- 2011 Master in Computer Science — University of Trento
- 2008 Bachelor in Computer Science — University of Trento
Entrepreneur
Started as a research idea: what if compliance infrastructure was a product, not a consulting project? Ten years later, CHINO.io served healthcare, fintech, and enterprise clients handling sensitive data under GDPR, HIPAA, and beyond.
Building a company from scratch taught me that good architecture is not just technical. It is organizational, legal, commercial. The full stack.
Started as tech co-founder. Over time the role shifted from writing code to shaping the company.
- ▸ Company vision and culture
- ▸ Product strategy and direction
- ▸ AI research and development
- — Compliance API for sensitive data management
- — GDPR & HIPAA certified infrastructure
- — Healthcare, fintech, enterprise verticals
- — 10+ years at the law-tech intersection
Tech
Backend systems, distributed architecture, compliance infrastructure.
Advanced knowledge of programming paradigms for backend systems. Ability to design complex application architectures in both monoliths or microservices that can scale horizontally or vertically without downtime.
Researcher
The research side never left. Systems thinking, rigorous analysis, and curiosity about how things work at a fundamental level.
- Business Process Management
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Crowdsourcing & Collective Intelligence
- ICT Innovation
- ICT for Innovation — University of Trento
- Business Process Management — University of Trento
Side Projects
Side projects. Self-hosted. Open source. Partially vibe-coded.
Self-hosted Gmail AI triage. Scores every thread with an LLM and surfaces only what needs your attention. The rest gets archived automatically.
Privacy-first activity monitor for macOS. Tracks every app, tab, and idle moment locally. No cloud, all data stays on your machine.
macOS menu bar app for Google Calendar. Shows your next event with a live countdown and opens meeting links one minute before they start.
Real Life
Outside the keyboard.