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Mokka StudiosMilan & Seville

Music engineer.

Project manager. Developer. Teacher.

I build digital products and train companies on AI and digital skills. The rest of the time I study classical guitar and run Snuggl, my project against pet abandonment.

13
portfolio projects
15+
companies worked with
678
coffees this year
About

Two souls, one craft.

Two things have never stopped surprising me: technology and music. I studied Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, but I have been playing classical guitar since I was a kid, and my first job at fifteen was in a lutherie workshop. When I found out there was a master's degree in Music and Acoustic Engineering, I realised I no longer had to choose between the two.

Today I work as a freelancer, splitting my time between product, code and training. I manage digital projects with Mokka Studios, I help companies make sense of AI with Radical HR and Consulting S.p.A., and I still write software almost every day. I live partly in Milan, partly in Seville.

And then there is the rest. There is Snuggl, the project I founded to help fight pet abandonment. There were the theatre years with I Conturbanti, a company started together with four friends. And there is a piece of research on musical artist similarity that ended up in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.

Davide Lista
Based in
Milan & Seville
Languages
Italian · English · Spanish
Freelance
Project management · Development · Training
Chartered
Order of Engineers (2026)
Working with
Mokka Studios · Radical HR · Consulting S.p.A.
Experience

The companies I have worked with.

  • Mar 2025 – todayMokka Studios (ongoing)Project manager and full-stack developerproductdevelopment
  • Jul 2025 – Sep 2025EstylFull-stack developerdevelopment
  • Sep 2024 – todayRadical HR (ongoing)Learning and Transformation Managertraining
  • Nov 2022 – todayConsulting S.p.A. (ongoing)Teacher, IT consultant and product ownerproducttraining
  • Jun 2022 – May 2023AAR MusicFull-stack developerdevelopmentmusic
  • Oct 2022 – Jan 2023Liceo Scientifico C. DoneganiComputer science teachertraining
  • Apr 2022 – Jun 2022Lacerba.ioTeachertraining
  • Nov 2021 – Sep 2023SienaGenTestOperating partner and full-stack developerdevelopment
  • Sep 2021Miss Mondo ItaliaTechnical collaboratordevelopment
  • May 2021 – Jan 2022DigitAllyTeachertraining
  • Mar 2021 – Jun 2021Istituto A. De Simoni – M. QuadrioComputer science teachertraining
  • Jun 2020 – Dec 2020s4sFull-stack developerdevelopment
  • Oct 2020 – Dec 2025Il CuboTutor and teachertraining
  • Aug 2018 – Jan 2020CefrielInterndevelopment
  • Aug 2016 – Sep 2016iPlus ServiceInterndevelopment
  • Jul 2013Liuteria Renato BaroneLuthier's apprenticemusic
Projects

Projects that look like me.

  • Featureddevelopment & product

    Snuggl

    The project I founded to help fight pet abandonment.

  • music & audio

    Shadow Sync Project

    Interactive installation where two remote people synchronise their movements to make music together.

    C++PythonSuperColliderVideoGitHub
  • research

    Artist similarity, audio e social

    My thesis at Politecnico: musical similarity between artists compared with the similarity of their social profiles. It grew into research for the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.

    PythonMachine learningPaper
  • music & audio

    PolyDrum

    A polymetric drum machine in the browser, built to make complex rhythms simple.

  • music & audio

    Choirify

    A multi-mode choral harmoniser: it builds choir voices from a single melody.

    ProcessingSuperColliderGitHub
  • music & audio

    Plugin JUCE

    A guitar distortion audio plugin with several flavours of non-linear clipping.

    C++JUCEGitHub
  • development & product

    aarmusic.it

    The management platform for the AAR Music label and its recording studio.

    ReactDjangoSite
  • development & product

    Tutoring

    My personal platform for organising tutoring sessions and materials for high-school and university students.

    Next.jsSite
  • research

    Urban Sound Classification

    An urban sound classifier trained on the UrbanSound8K dataset.

    PythonSVMGitHub
  • development & product

    Notte della Ricerca

    The website for Policlinico di Siena's science outreach night.

  • development & product

    Uniadvisor

    An independent platform where students rated courses and professors by sharing reviews.

    ReactPython
  • development & product

    Adrenaline

    A digital take on the Adrenaline board game, built for the Software Engineering course at Politecnico.

  • art

    I Conturbanti

    Five friends and a theatre company: three years of shows with the Italian Revenue Agency's Fisco e Scuola project.

Now

Meanwhile.

On the stand

Recuerdos de la Alhambra · Francisco Tárrega

Classical guitar, tremolo permitting.

Almost by heart

On the nightstand

Le guerre del Mondo Emerso · Licia Troisi

Dragons and swords before sleep.

Reading · a chapter a night

Snuggl

Backoffice platform

The management side of the app bringing shelters and families together.

In development

snuggl.app
Contact

Let's talk.

A product to build, a team to train, a collaboration to explore. Or simply a chat about music and code. Drop me a line.