Born in 1983 in Gela, Italy, he has been living in Turin since 2002.Developing software for personal computers has always been his passion. He started as a self-taught when he was 9 years old and that passion eventually became his profession through hard studying and plenty of working experiences collected over time.Starting 2000, he designed, developed and marketed many different applications for Macintosh under the “Zik Software” pseudonym, obtaining highly positive reviews from various international magazines.In 2001 he started a ten years long collaboration with Applicando, the #1 Italian Macintosh magazine published by Il Sole 24 Ore Business Media, for which he wrote several technical tutorials and reviews.In 2002 he won the REALbasic Cubie Award, an international prize for the best applications made with REALbasic, for the development of PrefsOverload, which was rated first in the "Best Utility" category.The same year he moved to Torino and co-founded Emerasoft, a software company specialized in desktop publishing systems. The company's premiere product, called LPS, was mostly developed by himself. Here he collected many experiences as enterprise level developer and system integrator, working for big italian and foreign companies like SEAT Pagine Gialle S.p.A. and Polarion Software GmbH.Since 2007, he has been involved mainly with custom software design and development as a freelance, focusing on desktop/digital publishing, graphics and photography solutions.In 2011 he earned a Master's degree in Computer Science: his thesis covered SprintPress, a publishing system that was completely designed and developed by himself for a sports newspaper.In 2013 he co-founded PubCoder, a start-up that aims to create a software platform to enable graphics designers to easily create and publish interactive multi-language eBooks for every tablet device, either in ePub 3 or as native apps