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About

I started out as a humble cooper in 17th-century Venice—shaping barrels by hand, minding my business, and occasionally overcharging pompous nobles. It was honest work, until one delivery turned into a blood pact I don’t fully remember. Next thing I knew, I was undead, unemployed, and oddly nocturnal.

These days, I’m a full stack developer living in Transylvania, coding after dark for DracEats, the world’s leading blood delivery platform. I handle everything from API design to user flows—though I still miss the smell of fresh oak (less so the risk of splinters or exorcisms).

This blog is where I share my thoughts on tech, life as an eternal night-shift worker, and surviving agile sprints with werewolves. If that sounds useful—or at least mildly cursed—you’re in the right place.

lorenzo@dilumenero.dev

Career

2011 – Present
Senior Full Stack Developer
DracEats, Transylvania
Joined the team to modernize blood delivery infrastructure. Built their internal CMS (Crypt Management System), migrated the platform to the cloud (during a thunderstorm, naturally), and occasionally mentors younger undead developers—except zombies, they bite.
1999 – 2010
Freelance Web Developer
Global
Re-emerged during the dot-com boom. Built spooky Geocities websites and offered "vampire-proof" hosting (mostly a gimmick). Survived Y2K unscathed but emotionally drained.
1640 – 1890
Nomadic Nocturnal Consultant
Europe
Took on various night jobs: librarian in Prague, alchemical assistant in Paris, moonlight accountant in Bavaria. Dabbled in early computing with Charles Babbage but found punch cards too bloody.
1631
Unplanned Career Shift (Bitten)
Venice, Republic of Venice
Accidentally turned into a vampire during a masked delivery to the Palazzo della Luna Rossa. Accepted immortality after brief negotiations and a lot of dramatic lightning.
1609 – 1631
Apprentice & Cooper
Venice, Republic of Venice
Trained under Master Bellotti in the art of barrel-making. Specialized in casks for wine, olive oil, and other suspicious liquids. Proud inventor of the self-draining blood barrel (unintentional).

Projects

BloodAPI

An open-source RESTful API for blood banks and donors—optimized for vampire dietary preferences (type, age, ethical sourcing).

bloodapi.dev

Nocturnal.dev

A dark-mode-only front-end component library with themes like “Cursed Forest” and “Dungeon UI.” Daylight mode? Not supported.

nocturnal.dev

CryptKeeper

A static site generator for immortal portfolios. Features include tombstone-styled templates and eternal caching.

cryptkeeper.io

GitGhoul

A spooky GitHub action that triggers haunting sound effects and lightning GIFs during push events after midnight.

gitghoul.dev

Stakeout

An incident management tool for supernatural teams—auto-escalates alerts if garlic is detected in the build pipeline.

stakeout.tools

MoonPhase.js

A lightweight JS plugin that shows current lunar phase and warns werewolf teammates in Slack when it's “that time again.”

moonphasejs.com

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