Hi, I’m Michael Gatto. I’m an engineer who leads, a researcher who ships, and a manager who still reads the diff.
👨💻 What I do
- Localized Programming Language Design
- Mobile and Front-end Web Development
- Computational Linguistics
Software engineer, Director of Engineering, and NLP researcher — one through-line: programming languages are human languages. Type systems are morphology. Grammars aren’t a metaphor — they’re the thing itself.
🔬 Featured Projects
ArabicBASIC — Full ANTLR 4 grammar and runtime interpreter for a BASIC dialect with a complete Arabic keyword set, Eastern Arabic-Indic numeral support, and orthographic variant handling. Addresses the formal question of what a programming language looks like when it isn’t rooted in English morphology.
Arabic Root Prediction — Character-level bidirectional LSTM (PyTorch) trained on the Al-Mus’haf Quranic Corpus to predict Arabic triliteral roots across three root classes (non-weak, geminated, weak).
🛠 Technologies I work with and research with
- Front-end: React, TypeScript, Capacitor, Ionic
- Back-end: Java, Python, SQL
- NLP/ML: PyTorch, spaCy, NLTK, NumPy, ANTLR 4
🌐 Human languages I work with
- Arabic 🇸🇦
- Persian 🇦🇫 🇮🇷 🇹🇯
- Italian 🇮🇹
📫 Reach me
Mashq and Machine 