# About

Author: Emanuele Russo
Source: https://emanuelegrusso.com/about
Updated: 2026-10-17

Torino, IT

## About me

I'm a pilot, I've worked as a project manager, and I'm moving into tech. I got pretty frustrated with how things get done in corporate, and I've always been a nerd.

It usually starts with something that annoyed me and wouldn't go away. My Garmin couldn't show my TickTick tasks without another subscription, so I wrote [a watch app](https://github.com/Anneo22/ticktick-garmin-app) for it. I wanted my projects public and couldn't tell what personal stuff was still buried in their git history, so I wrote [publishable](https://github.com/ABCastor/publishable) to check. I use more than one AI subscription and kept running out on one while the others sat idle. That's where [Crossfeed Orchestrator](https://github.com/ABCastor/crossfeed-orchestrator) came from, and later Crossfeed Chat.

The watch app is a release candidate, not in the Connect IQ store yet. **Crossfeed Chat** is not public yet.

Publishing my work as open source changed how I work. I'm not afraid of building something just for fun anymore; before, it always felt like I was wasting time.

Working with AI agents taught me that the real work is deciding exactly what to build and where it stops. Get that right and the agents do a lot of the rest. They're biased towards doing, so the thinking has to come first, and that part is mine.

These days that happens at [Castor](https://abcastor.com), which I started with [Edoardo Avenia](https://edoardoavenia.com/). We publish the tools we build for ourselves and write about how people and machines work together, and where a person still adds something. We also live together, so every idea goes through the other one before it goes anywhere.

Edoardo is also on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edoardoavenia/). Castor's code is at [github.com/ABCastor](https://github.com/ABCastor).

Maybe Castor is already a startup, god knows. We genuinely don't know where the value is yet, so exploring is the only honest path.

I studied physics with the [Open University](https://www.open.ac.uk/).

If any of this is useful to you, or you think I've got something wrong, come say hi on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuele-russo-656a10199). The code is on [GitHub](https://github.com/Anneo22).

- [GitHub ](https://github.com/Anneo22)

- [LinkedIn ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuele-russo-656a10199)

- [@Salpetto ](https://t.me/Salpetto)

- [@anneo22.bsky.social ](https://bsky.app/profile/anneo22.bsky.social)

## About this site

The stars, the little plane, why the sky, and how it is all made. [Read how this site is made](https://emanuelegrusso.com/about-this-site).