Just a couple of highlights from Fuerte-Hacker-House. One week spent working together with inspiring people, sharing ideas, energy, feelings and continuously improving. ~ Once again, the importance of the right environment.
Journey
2026
March 2026Fulbright Scholar 🇺🇸🇮🇹Beyond grateful to Fulbright Italy for believing in me. This is one of the best communities in the world and I'm so grateful to be part of it.
January 2026Went back to Fuerte 🏝️
Si torna sempre dove si è stati bene (italian way of saying you always come back where you enjoyed staying). Went back to Fuerte, this time with Lead The Future Mentorship.
Probably created the highest talent density inside the Canary Island for a few days. Discussed about long-term vision of the community and celebrated the amazing results achieved in 2025.
Thanks Lead The Future, Thanks Fra, you truly changed my life.
January 2026Working on my next big thingI'm cooking, please hang tight.
2025
September 2025'print("Hello New York 🗽")'
New chapter unlocked. New York, you're truly magical. The people, the energy, the level of ambition, hard to describe it otherwise.
Excited to be here. Met people I'll never forget.
2024
December 2024Locked-In Mode Enabled 🔏
Locked myself in the middle of the Italian mountains (44° 35' 18'' N ; 7° 12' 11'' E).
Applied to more than 10 of the best universities in the world. Learnt a ton during the process and, later on, wrote about it.
This was probably one of the most stressful, high-intensity period of my life. Balancing a full-time work at Amazon with college applications wasn't easy.
Worth every bit of it.
January 2024Joined Amazon 📦Relocated to Luxembourg 🇱🇺 and started working at Amazon Finance (time series forecasting for costs).
2023
July 2023Landed in SF 🛩️🌁
- Got selected to take part in the Silicon Valley Study Tour Summer '23 Batch
- Raised a fully-funded scholarship from my university
- Attended +21 meetings in two weeks. +7 of them private 1to1 organised from 🇮🇹
- Changed completely my perspective on everything. Learnt some of the most valuable lessons of my entire life
2021
September 2021Let the journey begin: H-Farm College 🎓
Started to follow my dreams, moved to the other side of Italy to study in a campus that was still under construction 🏗️. Took a long-term bet but, looking back, it was definitely worth it.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
2018
June 2018Built end-to-end my first Hackintosh
Managed to build my first Hackintosh after loads of nights writing kexts.
Probably how I fell in love with programming.
For whom it might interest, I used to be very active on this forum.
I hope that 🍎 will never see this.
2016
June 2016Fell in love with bikingIn the picture with my friend Filippo, we have been biking together for the past 10 yrs.
2002
April 2002print("Hello, World!") 👶
First breath executed successfully. No compiler errors. Stack trace: Genoa, Italy.
git init luca-barattini — initial commit.