Giorgio Garofalo is a software engineer and the creator of Quarkdown, a Markdown-based typesetting system. His current portfolio describes full-stack work on Falconer’s visual knowledge editor.[1]
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Education
Master’s studies in Computer Science and Engineering
2024 – end date unverified
[2]Links
Personal portfolio
GitHub · iamgio Full-stack engineer · Falconer AI
Background
Garofalo describes Quarkdown beginning as a bachelor’s thesis proposed by his University of Bologna supervisors: a simpler language for writing slides. He extended the project to articles and books, then continued maintaining it after graduating. His portfolio records that attention on Hacker News led to a conversation with Falconer and a move into its engineering team.[1]
Career
His resume records a Falconer AI full-stack engineering role beginning in November 2025, focused on the visual editor and marketing website. Earlier work includes an iOS development and interface-design internship at Cosmobile from February to April 2024 and Flutter development at Kigal Services from September 2020 to July 2021.[2]
Contributions
Quarkdown compiles Markdown extended with functions, variables and layout instructions into documents, slides and websites. A single language can express both the content and the rules that arrange it, so reusable formatting does not require manually editing each output page. Its command-line tools include project creation and preview workflows.[3]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
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Quarkdowngithub.comA typesetting system that extends Markdown with functions and layout control for documents, presentations and websites.
Build the repository’s simplest document before adding functions or custom layout. Markdown familiarity is enough to understand the content layer; installing the command-line runtime is required to compile it.
Creator and maintainer[1][3]Original source