Niccolò Ferrari
Creative Director
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolNiccolò Ferrari is a creative director, educator, and founder with 13 years of experience crafting communication strategy, managing teams and running multidisciplinary projects across fashion, events and education. He co-founded Borderless Collective in 2019 and evolved it into Borderless Factory in 2024, blending agency practice with learning and project incubation while still teaching semestral courses and supervising international theses at IED. Niccolò pairs hands-on creative leadership with technical curiosity—contributing to open-source Python projects like web2py to improve Python 3 compatibility and documentation—bringing a rare mix of communication craft and developer sensibility. Based in Milan with stints in London and San Francisco, he is a seasoned trainer and podcast producer who scales bespoke teams for each brief and believes strongly in personal centering through sport and lifelong growth.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Italian, English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
26reputation
196reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (26)
git10
debug10
python10
version-control10
web-framework10
web2py10
documentation10
character-encoding9
encoding9
unicode9
front-end-development9
computer-engineering9
encode9
error-handling9
file-processing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
web2py/py4web
Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 138 commits, 124 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Niccolò's contributions primarily focused on documentation updates and minor code corrections, particularly addressing typos and formatting issues across various chapters of the py4web documentation. Their work involved clarifying installation procedures, improving descriptions of the framework's features, and restructuring documentation. They also made improvements to the underlying code including fixing ANSI printouts and adding the shell command option to enhance the user experience.
web2py/web2py-book
Sep 2012 - Mar 2019
web2py-book
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 6 PRs, 1 comment in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Niccolò primarily focused on enhancing Python 3 compatibility within the web2py-book project, addressing code compatibility issues in both the application's core controllers and supporting modules. They also implemented a chapter not found error handling mechanism and addressed Unicode-related problems in chapter titles, indicating a focus on improving the application's robustness and user experience. Furthermore, the user updated the project's dependencies and fixed several errors.
web2py
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