Hey there! Yes, my GitHub profile is written in Latin — not to be pretentious (hopefully!), but because I’ve always had a deep interest in the history of the Roman Empire (minus, you know, the whole cruelty and gladiators thing). My real name is Mauro, though, and I’m based in Europe — usually somewhere between Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, and the UK.

I’ve been into coding since the early ’90s — I started in 1991 on a Commodore 64. That’s right — I'm older than Google.

I got into email pretty early too. In 1993, I was running a BBS that connected to Fidonet and fetched email using UUCP. In 1997, I wrote a webmail client in C that ended up being used by quite a few large companies. A few years later, I built a full mail server to go with it — supporting IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.

Fast-forward a couple of decades and, despite all the progress in tech, email infrastructure still felt stuck in the past. Most servers were bloated, overly complex, and hard to maintain. So I decided to build something better — a modern, efficient mail and collaboration server from the ground up, written in Rust.

That project became Stalwart Mail & Collaboration Server, the core of what I now work on at Stalwart Labs.

Outside of software, I’m into psychology and philosophy. I’ve got a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Cognitive and Decision Sciences from UCL. A while back, I even published a paper on the Effectiveness of an Empathic Chatbot in Combating Adverse Effects of Social Exclusion on Mood — before ChatGPT was cool.

When I’m not writing code, I’m probably out cycling. I’ve got a modest climbing engine with an FTP around 200W, and I love grinding my way up a good mountain road.

Aut Rust aut nihil 🦀