Dynamic Data in ActiveCanvas 0.1.0: Why It's Built This Way
ActiveCanvas 0.1.0 is out, and the big thing in it is dynamic data. Pages that read from your Rails app,...
Software engineer, serial entrepreneur and adventurer.
Hi, I'm Giovanni — a software engineer and entrepreneur based in Rome, Italy. I co-founded Consultala, a SaaS platform for Italian labor law, and founded Monte del Gallo, a software boutique building custom digital products. I also lead Ruby development at Fondazione ENPAM.
- 15+
- years building software
- 500+
- GitHub stars
- 9
- products shipped
- 500k+
- people served
Open source
My Open Source Projects
I'm passionate about contributing to the open-source community. Here are some of my projects that help developers build better applications.
ActiveCanvas
210+ stars
An open-source CMS engine for Rails 8+. A visual page builder with drag-and-drop editing, AI content generation, page versioning and a media library, mounted in your monolith as one gem.
Rails 8+
GrapeJS
AI Content
GitHub
Active Storage Dashboard
450+ stars
A Rails engine with a dashboard to inspect Active Storage blobs, attachments and variants. See what your app stores, how much space it takes and where it lives.
Rails 7+
Active Storage
GitHub
Built with Ruby on Rails. For over a decade, I've been passionate about Ruby and giving back to the ecosystem that enriched my career.
Products
Things I've made trying to put my dent in the universe
I've worked on tons of little projects over the years but these are the ones that I'm most proud of.
Consultala
A SaaS app that helps you manage HR processes in your company.
Autofatturala
AI-powered self-invoicing for Italian companies with foreign suppliers — from the supplier's PDF straight to SDI.
MonteDelGallo
A software Boutique that builds software with cutting edge technologies.
SopranoVillas
A business focused on rental of luxury villas in Italy with the most beautiful villas of the country.
Consultala HR
A SaaS to manage HR and employees with a companion app made for employees.
NinjaBootstrap UI
A TailwindUI alternative made with an improved version of Bootstrap.
SegnalazioneInterna
A software as a service to handle whistleblowing in italian companies.
Writing
Latest articles
Building Autofatturala: Italian Self-Invoicing Is Crazy, Rails + RubyLLM Made It Simple
Here is a fun fact about doing business in Italy: when you buy something from a foreign company, you often...
How to Build an Agentic RAG with RubyLLM and Rails
I run a RAG application for Italian pension and tax consultants. Users ask questions about INPS, professional pension funds, laws...
My Journey
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- Company
- Fondazione ENPAM
- Role
- Lead Software Engineer
- Date
- Present
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- Company
- Consultala
- Role
- CTO & Co-Founder
- Date
- Present
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- Company
- MonteDelGallo
- Role
- Co-Founder
- Date
- Present
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- Company
- Solenica Inc.
- Role
- Software Developer
- Date
- Nov 2016
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- Company
- Digital Angels
- Role
- Web Developer
- Date
- May 2015
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- Company
- RobinGood
- Role
- Web Developer & SEO
- Date
- Jan 2014
