About Francesco Bilotta

This is just one big page where I write about myself, without needing it to be useful.

Last updated: 2026-07-16

Timeline

• 2014–2016. The middle-school years, when I taught myself to build things with no formal path and nobody to ask. I built a working virtual-reality headset from scratch: Unity and Unreal crashed on anything 3D, so I moved to Godot, wired the hardware together with Arduino, and wrote my own Windows serial driver because the one I needed did not exist. I built an 8-bit CPU by hand, wire by wire, and a graphics engine in C++. Everything I needed was in English, in university PDFs and on Google and YouTube, so I learned a language I hated because it was the only place the answers were. Yes, I was a bit curious.
• 2016–2021. High school, and a good deal more than high school. I graduated from a specialised Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation technical high school. In the summer of 2018, at sixteen, I was hired as a full-stack developer, and from then on I always worked as a developer in my free time. I started learning Japanese and reached a B1-B2 level in three years, enough to follow films and read manga, and later French and German (an advanced B1 in German and a B2 in French by 2021). Alongside all of it I read far outside any syllabus: marketing and business first, then psychology, sustainability, history, philosophy, theology, anything I could get my hands on. It was an encyclopedic self-education that, without my knowing it yet, was the search for what would become Cocreiamo, my pursuit of a Christian entrepreneurship.
• 2021–2026. University: Management Engineering at the University of Parma. My first corporate developer role had just wrapped up (Ferrari Group), so for a while I worked part-time at a McDonald's near campus, then went back to engineering in remote teams, especially on the blockchain side (Dreamnet: a ticketing marketplace and a betting dApp). All of it while carrying on at university and, as always, teaching myself most of what actually mattered.
• 2023. A large, multi-million-euro real-estate agency franchise, now HouseTree S.p.A., hired me as their IT architect and technical lead, a role of steadily growing responsibility. I was the first and only in-house engineer, and I inherited a twenty-year-old management system in total vendor lock-in, two weeks from being switched off. I recovered it, then rebuilt it module by module without a single office noticing the switch. In 2024 I became Tech Lead of the group, sole owner of its architecture and infrastructure.
• 2025–2026. I started an independent freelance practice in parallel, and in 2026 I founded Cocreiamo, with many dead ideas along the way. Not just a company: the search that started in my teens, made into one. I want to become what I would call a spiritual entrepreneur, though I am still far from able to call myself one.

Off the keyboard

I practice, or rather used to practice, Jiu-Jitsu. I'd like to get back into it.

In my free time, I like experimenting with technology.

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