Nicola Destro

Systems-level developer working at the intersection of aerospace, high-performance inference, and infrastructure automation. My background spans astrodynamics and orbital mechanics, Rust systems programming, and local/edge LLM inference — including hands-on GPU tuning work on unconventional hardware (mixed-generation NVIDIA setups) that most inference stacks aren't built for. I run everything on a NixOS flake-based system, so reproducibility and clean tooling matter to me as much as raw performance. Outside of freelance/personal projects, I'm the software team lead for RedPill, a PocketQube satellite project under ESA's Fly Your Satellite! programme (University of Padova), where I work on flight software architecture and attitude estimation. What I build here: Actors that go past "another API wrapper" — favoring self-hosted compute, careful performance work, and clean data pipelines over thin orchestration glue. If it touches inference, orbital/scientific data, or anything that benefits from being fast rather than merely functional, that's my lane. Open to feedback and collaboration — feel free to reach out with questions on any of my Actors.