Summary
Giorgio Garofalo is a Full-Stack Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience crafting elegant, user-centered web and mobile applications. He blends a lifelong passion for coding and an artist’s sensibility to prioritize delightful UX while maintaining clean, maintainable codebases. As founder and lead of the open-source Quarkdown typesetting system and a contributor to UX-focused projects like the Tiptap-based Falconer editor, he excels at shipping tooling that empowers creators. Giorgio’s background spans product leadership, iOS development, and multidisciplinary innovation work with CERN Ideasquare, reflecting a rare mix of design thinking and engineering rigor. Known for combining creativity, pragmatic laziness and dedication, he often focuses on making complex interactions feel simple and intuitive.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Italian, English, Spanish, Norwegian