Reflections on engineering, leadership, and creative practice
I see engineering, leadership, and creativity as living practices, shaped by people working together, learning, and adapting to change.
I’m Bruno Fonzi, a technologist shaped by practice more than position. Over the years, I’ve learned that building software, leading teams, and nurturing creative communities are not separate pursuits, but expressions of the same evolving craft. Technology changes constantly, and so do we. What endures is the shared work of learning together and creating environments where people can think, build, and grow.
A practice shaped over time
My path into technology has never been linear. I’ve worked across countries, industries, and organizational scales, from small teams to complex systems. Each shift required new tools, new contexts, and new ways of working with others. Over time, I came to see change not as disruption, but as the natural condition of meaningful work.
Some of the most formative moments in my career didn’t come from shipping products or holding roles, but from working closely with people, navigating uncertainty together, building trust, and learning how culture quietly shapes outcomes. Technical problems are rarely just technical. Progress often depends less on having the right answer than on creating the right conditions for answers to emerge.
Building things into existence
Along the way, entrepreneurship became a natural extension of my work. Not as an ambition in itself, but as a way to explore ideas fully by building them into the world. Starting new ventures, across both commercial and nonprofit contexts, has been a way to learn in public, work closely with others, and stay grounded in reality as ideas meet constraints.
These experiences reinforced for me that entrepreneurship is less about speed or scale and more about commitment, to an idea, to the people involved, and to the practice of adapting as reality pushes back. I continue to see new ventures as opportunities to test assumptions, create shared ownership, and design systems that can evolve with the people inside them. It’s a practice I remain actively engaged in, with new experiments beginning to take shape.
Teams, communities, and creative work
Alongside my professional work, I’ve always been drawn to spaces where creativity and technology meet. That impulse led me to co-found CODAME, an art-and-technology nonprofit rooted in experimentation, play, and collaboration.
Through hackathons, interactive installations, and participatory experiences, CODAME became a way to explore how creative practice can open new perspectives on technology, and how teams can form, learn, and create together inside a broader community.
Hackathons, in particular, have been a recurring thread in my life. They compress teamwork, creativity, and adaptation into a short, intense window, revealing what becomes possible when hierarchy softens and curiosity leads. The output may be temporary, but the learning lasts. These experiences reinforced my belief that teams and communities are not separate forces, but different expressions of the same collective energy.
Leadership as an evolving craft
As my responsibilities grew, my understanding of leadership evolved with them. I came to see leadership not as control or certainty, but as presence, listening, and continuous adjustment. Leading well means staying close to the work and its constraints, while creating the conditions for others to do their best thinking.
Leadership, like engineering, is a living practice, shaped by reflection, feedback, and the willingness to change one’s mind. It requires attention to people as much as systems, and an acceptance that clarity often emerges through dialogue rather than direction.
Why I write here
This site is a place for reflection, a way to make sense of what I’ve learned while building software, starting new ventures, working with teams, and participating in creative communities. I write to slow things down, to notice patterns, and to explore how technology, leadership, and culture influence one another over time.
I don’t write to provide answers, but to share questions, observations, and practices that continue to shape my work. If these reflections resonate, it’s likely because you, too, are navigating change, building things with others, learning as you go, and trying to do the work with intention.
This is an ongoing practice, and these notes are part of it.
