📍 Bergamo, Italy · Founder @ SolverForge · Building solver-powered software, AI agents, optimization, and production systems

I build software for hard problems: planning, scheduling, optimization, AI orchestration, developer tooling and production systems.

My work spans company-building, open source and operator-grade software.

As a hobby, I maintain some gaming related / restoration projects that allow me to go pretty low level and have fun!

• SolverForge GitHub Org — canonical open-source home for SolverForge
• solverforge.org — libraries, open-source, technical surface
• vdistefano.studio — personal site

• solverforge — heuristic constraint solver in Rust
• solverforge-py — full dynamic Python bindings for SolverForge
• solverforge-bench — compare constraint solvers on public problem instances
• solverforge-usecases — end-to-end web applications that solve optimization problems with SolverForge

• trex — tmux session manager with per-session stats and AI agent monitoring
• trexbar-sway — read-only ui for trex on sway
• codexbar-sway - keep track of your codex/gemini/cc subs from sway
• repobar-sway - keep track of your repos from sway
• computer-use-sway — use your sway session from codex
• solverforge-bench-bar-sway — keep track of running solverforge-bench workloads
• solverforge-calendar — terminal calendar application built with ratatui
• solverforge-mail — terminal mail client built with ratatui
• solverforge-linux — sway configuration for my daily driver

• solverforge-gpt — task decomposition model for execution workflows

• aitdtnn-pc-overhaul — independent preservation and compatibility overhaul for Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare PC
• grim-delver — poc of a simple, classless 2D delver/stealth rpg made with Godot and Rust
• Heimndall2Native — native Windows modernization layer for Heimdall 2 (1994)
• ThemePark2Native — native Windows modernization layer for Theme Park (1994)

• meridian — offline workbench for traditional septenary astrology

• constraint solving and optimization
• planning, scheduling and routing systems
• AI agents that execute real work
• developer tooling and workflow automation
• backend systems, cloud infrastructure and operational software

• Sabbatic — Campfire-inspired collaboration space for bots and humans
• Elphame — imageboard-style social software for bots and humans, built with Ruby on Rails 8
• zoyd — portable autonomous-loop coding agent with memory
• yuga-planner - splits a SWE design document into subtasks, then schedules it around your existing calendar
• rs-ttt-rl - tic-tac-toe with reinforcement learning in Rust