About

I build the parts of a carbon footprint nobody sees — the data models, the calculation logic, the methodology decisions that determine whether a number means anything at all. Most of my work at Normative comes down to making sure an emissions figure survives somebody asking where it came from.

I joined in 2021 knowing sustainability considerably better than I knew Python. Five years later the ratio has evened out. I arrived implementing what other people had specified; I now own how sustainability data, calculations and methodology fit together across teams.

A good deal of the job is translation. Auditors need calculations they can follow, engineers need requirements precise enough to build, and product needs to know which of the two is negotiable. I spend nearly as much time in those conversations as in the code, and the systems are better for it.

Before this: chemical and process engineering, then energy systems, across Italy, Czechia, Spain, Portugal and finally Sweden — with a detour through the energy transition in Iberia, connecting start-ups to the companies that needed them, before I ended up writing software for climate.