Daniele Spaccapeli
Founder at Build Useful Stuff
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniele Spaccapeli is a founder and product-minded designer with nine years of experience blending machine learning, UX and engineering to ship pragmatic MVPs and growth-focused products. Based in Zurich, he has led and scaled application teams, introduced continuous discovery practices in enterprise settings, and delivered cost-saving operational improvements while shaping product strategy. His work spans AI assistants for healthcare and meeting notes to a digital collectible card game, reflecting a knack for rapid iteration and finding market fit. Trained in HCI and data engineering across KTH, Politecnico di Milano and Paris-Saclay, he pairs technical rigor with user-centred design. Notably, he moved from engineer to designer to product lead—bringing a rare cross-disciplinary fluency that helps turn ML ideas into usable products.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di FirenzeM2 HCID - EIT Digital, Computer Science, M2 HCID - EIT Digital, Computer Science at Université Paris-SaclayMaster's degree, Human Computer Interaction, Master's degree, Human Computer Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyStudy Exchange, Computer Science, Study Exchange, Computer Science at Aalto UniversityMaster’s Degree, Data Engineering, 110/110, Master’s Degree, Data Engineering, 110/110 at Politecnico di Milano
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (35)
framework710
javascript10
mbaas10
ios10
react-native10
algolia10
expo10
typescript10
microfrontend10
jekyll10
android10
jekyll-theme10
weex10
frontend10
react10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dspaccapeli/circles-and-porygons
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
This drawing application “prettifies” drawn shapes. For example, if the user draws a rough rectangle the application is going to make it pretty/regularized (i.e. with four straight lines) and of the appropriate size. We also developed: The ability to draw using the user’s hand through the webcam; Force a higher degree of prettification by making the drawn shapes more regular in case they are triangles or rectangles. [2019]]
Contributions:45 commits, 4 pushes in 2 months
abilityroughrectangleforcelines
dspaccapeli/bus-arrival
Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
aaltopythonarrivalpredictionmachine-learning
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