Federico Curzel

Personal Projects

Belt Nine

Explore a galaxy in a stolen ship: mine asteroids, trade in planetary cities, upgrade your ship and take Guild missions while evading bounty hunters.
Play solo or with up to four players in local split screen, with wireframe or pixel graphics.
I built it in vanilla JavaScript, with a generated galaxy and a synthesized soundtrack. Read about the two renderers.
Free to play in your browser. The desktop release is planned for Q1 2027; wishlist Belt Nine on Steam.

Landed at a Belt Nine city: a menu of Exchange, Shipyard and Guild

The Belt Nine belt map: sectors joined by wormholes

Belt Nine on the pixel theme: the same belt drawn as dithered pixels

Play it now In Browser

Trailer More Info

Play online | Steam | Trailer

Retro Deck

This is my first artistic project.
It's a hand-drawn pixel art deck for tarot and card games.
Also comes with an app that uses a local LLM (Qwen 2) to help with tarot readings.

Buy on Etsy

SneakBit

A story-driven RPG inspired by Game Boy games, with local split-screen and online co-op.
I started it to learn Rust, then rewrote it in vanilla JavaScript. I made the engine and sprites myself; the fonts, music and sound effects come from other creators.
The project is open source, and you can play it now in your browser, or buy it on Steam if you'd like to support it! :)

Play it now In Browser

More Info

Play online | Steam | App Store | Play Store

BitTherapy

BitTherapy is an app that brings Desktop Pets to macOS, with over 400k downloads and 10k daily active users.
It was the first side project I sold.
It now goes by Pets Therapy under its new owner, who has brought it to Steam and the Microsoft Store. It's no longer open source.

Microsoft Store

Steam | App Store | Microsoft Store

Pipper

Pipper is a small web browser with six buttons. It floats above other windows to keep a page visible while you work.
Some early users have started to use it as a control panel for audio mixers, among other things.
The project is open source and available on the App Store.

Professional Experience

Integration Manager at Gunnebo Entrance Control

Since April 2025

My primary role is to bridge the technical gap between Project Managers and the Engineering Team to help bring customers projects to life.
I still develop software, both for internal and external use.
Sometimes it's a low-level, real-time, performance-focused application, running on embedded Linux and written in C; sometimes it's a CRUD demo app written in Java; sometimes it's a mission-critical internal tool with deep integration with SolidWorks PDM and MS Office... They love to keep me on my toes here!

Mobile Tech Lead at Ledworks srl

June 2023 / April 2025

I am leading two great mobile teams (iOS and Android) working on Smart Lighting products for Twinkly (Ledworks Srl): IOT, Cybersecurity, Computer Vision, ...
My responsibilities include analysis of requirements, managing my team, and coordinating with other company departments, while still doing plenty of work as an individual contributor on both platforms using Compose, SwiftUI, ...

iOS Tech Lead at Vimar Spa

Sept 2022 / June 2023

I am leading a great iOS team working on home automation and IOT projects for Vimar (one of the industry leaders in the space in Italy).
While I continue to work primarily on development tasks, my focus is also on helping the team grow personally and professionally so that they can be more effective.
My responsibilities include analysis of requirements, managing my team, and coordinating with other company departments.

Senior Software Engineer at Gucci

Aug 2021 / Sept 2022

As a member of their first mobile team, I have helped Gucci internalize the development process of their existing Mobile App.
Worked in Swift and SwiftUI, Kotlin and TypeScript, used Bitrise, Browserstack, Appium.

Lead iOS Developer at Xanadu Consultancy Ltd

Feb 2016 / Aug 2021

I was the Lead iOS Developer for the Matchbook Betting Exchange App, a highly-regulated gambling platform with a lot of similarities with a regular trading platform.
I architected and developed the app from scratch using Swift.
Brought app store ratings to 4.7 stars (up from 2.1), 10x-ing the app revenue in the process.
Worked in a distributed and international team, using Agile and Design Thinking methodologies.

Software Developer Freelance

Jan 2015 / Dec 2019

I helped startups and small companies bootstrapping their mobile projects by offering development, mentorship and other services.

Software Developer at Ixora Team Srl

Feb 2014 - Aug 2015

At Ixora Team Srl, I was responsible for the maintenance and development of an in-house developed ERP solution for Fashion Retail. I've designed and developed mobile apps for inventory and sales, in addition to an architecture that enabled these applications to synchronize inventory and sales data with the ERP.