# About

Carmine Paolino builds AI tools, Ruby libraries, and product infrastructure. He works on RubyLLM and Chat with Work, and previously co-founded Freshflow.

I'm Carmine Paolino. I wrote my first scripts at 5 to automate launching my favorite games. I've been hooked ever since.

Right now I'm building [RubyLLM][rubyllm], an open-source library that gives Ruby a clean, provider-independent interface to every major LLM. I also run [Chat with Work][chatwithwork], an AI tool that lets you talk to your actual work data. Before that I co-founded [Freshflow][freshflow]: AI that tells supermarkets how much fresh produce to order so less of it ends up in the bin.

I got into open source early, running the Italian [Gentoo Linux][gentoo] community as a teenager. Studied CS at the [University of Bologna][unibo], where I published work on [large-scale social network analysis][lana] with [Springer][springer]. Then AI at the [Free University of Amsterdam][vu], combining deep learning with music. Worked at [OLX][olx], [Capgemini][capgemini], and the [Alan Turing Institute][turing].

Outside of code: house and disco music as [Crimson Lake][crimsonlake], Berlin's [Floppy Disco][floppydisco] collective, and [photography][pictures].

[pictures]: https://paolino.photography
[crimsonlake]: https://crimsonlake.live
[freshflow]: https://freshflow.ai
[chatwithwork]: https://chatwithwork.com
[gentoo]: https://www.gentoo.org
[unibo]: https://www.unibo.it/en
[springer]: https://www.springer.com
[vu]: https://vu.nl/en
[olx]: https://www.olx.com
[capgemini]: https://www.capgemini.com
[turing]: https://www.turing.ac.uk
[floppydisco]: https://floppydisco.live
[lana]: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-9242-9_6
[rubyllm]: https://rubyllm.com