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> Senior Software Engineer & AI Engineer

I build software for machines that cannot afford to be wrong: CNC controllers, HMI systems, CAD/CAM toolchains — and, more recently, the AI that sits on top of them. Twenty years of C++, C# and Python in industrial production, three patents, and a standing suspicion of anything that only works in the demo.

// SYSTEM_CHECK

[LOADED] C++ / STL / Qt

[LOADED] C# / .NET / Win32 / Win64

[LOADED] Python / PyTorch / ML

[LOADED] CNC / CAD-CAM / 5-axis kinematics

[LOADED] HMI / computer vision / diagnostics

[LOADED] AI / LLM assistants / agent workflows

STATUS: READY TO DEPLOY _

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denisbilli — zsh — 80x24

whoami

Denis Billi

Senior Software Engineer @ SCM Group · AI Engineer · Visual storyteller

cat ./profile.json

{

"experience": "20+ years",

"domain": ["CNC", "HMI", "CAD/CAM", "Industrial AI"],

"stack": ["C++", "C#", "Python", "Qt", "Django"],

"location": "Rimini, IT",

"patents": 3,

"papers": 2

}

echo $CURRENT_MISSION

"Put AI inside industrial software without

giving up on explainability, safety or

the ability to debug it at 3am."

~ █

system_metrics.log

20+

Years in the field

C++ / HMI / R&D focus

Patents

CNC control & machine safety

~60%

HMI test time cut

Test suite re-engineering

~10%

Idle toolpath removed

3/4/5-axis optimisation

whoami --verbose

Senior software engineer with 20+ years of experience, based in Rimini, Italy.
Builds software for CNC machinery: HMI systems, CAD/CAM, ISO post-processors and 3, 4 and 5-axis machining logic.
Works on applied industrial AI: LLM-based assistants, machine-learning prototypes and troubleshooting automation for CNC environments.
Inventor or co-inventor on three software patents in machine control and machine safety.
Independent researcher on AI-generated image detection and multi-modal video retrieval.
Teaches C++, C# and Python in the "Mechatronics for Business" course at La Città dei Maestri.
Writes a newsletter on what happens when AI meets real organisations, at denisbilli.substack.com.

The longer version

selected_projects

repo: SnapBiz [SAAS / DJANGO]

SnapBiz

Full-stack platform for running a photography business: client portals, contracts, reminders, internal collaboration and operational dashboards.

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repo: Scribit.ai [SPEECH / WHISPER]

Scribit.ai

Speech-to-text and meeting-notes platform built on Whisper pipelines, backend batching and microservice deployment.

Open →

repo: qDBManager [C++ / QT]

qDBManager

A lightweight ORM and entity manager for the Qt framework — entities as QObjects, no code generation step.

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repo: Ground Control [SIMULATION / LEO]

Ground Control

A discrete-time simulation framework for policy decisions in LEO satellite networks, built to falsify rather than to flatter.

Open →

All projects

screen_captures

SnapBiz landing page showing the studio dashboard — FILE: SNAPBIZ_HOME.PNG

SnapBiz

**STACK:** Django / Celery / AWS
**ROLE:** Design & build
**LOC:** snapbiz.app

Scribit.ai landing page for transcription and document translation — FILE: SCRIBIT_HOME.PNG

Scribit.ai

**STACK:** Python / Whisper / Docker
**ROLE:** Pipeline & backend
**LOC:** scribit.ai

Ground Control repository README showing the routing policy table and key results — FILE: GROUND_CONTROL.PNG

Ground Control

**STACK:** Python / SGP4
**RESULT:** 50 experiments, OneWeb TLE
**LOC:** github.com/denisbilli

qDBManager repository README showing the C++ usage example — FILE: QDBMANAGER.PNG

qDBManager

**STACK:** C++ / Qt / SQLite
**RESULT:** 17 stars, 7 forks
**LOC:** github.com/denisbilli

research & patents

paper [independent research]

The Illusion of Robustness

Detectors for AI-generated images are usually reported as a single aggregate accuracy. That number hides a bias: how the training set is balanced across the generators themselves.

Read →

paper [independent research]

StoryHash

Video retrieval has to survive cropping, compression and speed changes without losing semantic accuracy. StoryHash fuses visual, temporal and structural signals into a single compact vector.

Read →

patent: EP4782739A1 [SCM Group]

Plant and method for machining a semiproduct

A machining plant for wood semi-products combining a safety apparatus with a computer-vision supervision system that detects dangerous operator actions the safety apparatus did not prevent.

Details →

patent: EP4354238A1 [SCM Group]

Collision detection method for a machine tool

Collision detection for a machine tool control unit, comparing orthogonal projections of the tool and of the machine hood on a shared projection plane.

Details →

optical input

I photograph for the Meeting in Rimini every August and, with BMB.photo, at weddings. What I keep coming back to is structure: what holds a thing up, and how light finds it.