The person behind the engineering.
I'm Vincenzo Grimaldi — an electrical engineer in Frankfurt working on the digitalisation of high-voltage rail infrastructure, and the builder of the Grimaldi Network. This is the personal surface: life, travel, and the long arc of the work, in plain words rather than datasheets.
One life, three surfaces
By day I digitise high-voltage traction assets for German rail. Around that sits everything else: software and AI systems, hardware builds, two book manuscripts in progress, and the places in between. Each surface of the network holds one part of it — this one holds the person.
Life & travel
Frankfurt, the places in between, and what an engineer notices when the laptop is closed.
First posts being writtenTwo manuscripts in progress
Long-form work on energy systems and the future of compute — the ideas behind the engineering, argued at book length.
In revisionThe long arc
How the projects, the books and the network came to be — the record, kept honestly, over the years.
Growing with the workThe journey so far
- 2025
RWTH Aachen
M.Sc. thesis: a cross-domain CIM–ThreMA ontology with reinforcement-learning security agents — now a live public simulator.
- 2024–
Frankfurt · DB InfraGO
Digitising high-voltage railway traction assets: IT/OT convergence and security governance for critical infrastructure.
- 2026
The Grimaldi Network
Three domains, one identity, four languages — the portfolio, the hardware lab and this page, shipped and kept consistent.
- Now
Two manuscripts
Long-form writing on energy sovereignty and the future of compute — in revision, claim by claim.
Two manuscripts — with public receipts
Long-form writing held to the same standard as the engineering: every load-bearing claim gets a proof. The Renewables Migration ships with a public proof-engine repository per chapter — runnable code behind the numbers.
The Renewables Migration
Germany traded fuel imports for hardware imports — the €-trillion receipt, the physics of 50 Hz, and what it takes to give the grid a brain. In revision, claim by claim.
In revisionThe Orbital AI Compute Roadmap
The terrestrial trilemma of AI compute — inertia, copper, heat — and the honest case for what comes after. In revision.
In revisionThe work that pays its way
Alongside the network I build and run production platforms for real companies — shipped, deployed, and maintained.
Plastilonas Peruanas SAC
B2B commerce platform for a Lima industrial-textiles manufacturer: 313 pages, four-language search surfaces, 600+ invariant tests that break the build on unverifiable claims.
Everything here is live — wander through it
The life and the work, in production. Each card opens a surface you can use right now.
Plastilonas Peruanas SAC
The B2B platform built for a real Lima business.
plastilonas-peruanas-sac.vercel.app LiveEcowoods
The flooring venture, live in Canada.
ecowoods.ca LiveThe Forge Line
Trades 2.0 — one automation product per trade.
engineeringgrimaldi.com LivePalletizer optimizer
The shipped Forge product — try the optimizer.
palletizer-app.vercel.app LiveThe thesis, running
The RWTH master thesis as an interactive simulator.
physics-informed.vercel.app LiveThe work registry
Capabilities and platforms, each with provenance.
igrimaldi.engineering LiveThe business card
vCard, QR and every channel in one place.
igrimaldi.engineering/cardWhat I'm doing now
Engineering the grid
Digitalisation of high-voltage railway traction assets in Frankfurt — IT/OT convergence and security governance for critical infrastructure.
Building the network
Three domains, one identity, four languages — the portfolio, the hardware lab and this page, kept consistent and continuously shipped.
Writing the books
Two manuscripts in revision, on energy sovereignty and on where compute goes next — being rewritten the hard way: claim by claim.
Where the work lives
Software & AI
The engineering portfolio: capability register, work registry, live thesis simulator.
Open →engineeringgrimaldi.comHardware & EE
The physical layer: high-voltage systems, embedded boards, power electronics build logs.
Open →Business cardThe digital card
Contact channels, vCard download and a shareable QR — one URL for the whole identity.
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