Description

CTO and Engineering leader helping startups and scale-ups build, scale, and fix their engineering organisations; from founding stage to 70+ engineers across 10+ countries, fully remote.

What I typically work on as a fractional CTO:

Engineering team scaling: org design, hiring frameworks, career ladders, performance reviews
Engineering management and delivery improvement via DORA metrics, OKRs, and sprint predictability (60% → 85%)
AI/ML strategy and implementation: recommendation systems, LLM-powered products, RAG architectures
IT architecture reviews and platform modernisation: refactored a 23TB database to enable ML pipelines
Technical due diligence for fundraising (Series A–D), M&A, and investor readiness

Results from past engagements:

Scaled Everli's engineering from 2 to 70+ engineers, shipping EUR 100M+ GMV/year across 200+ cities
Handled a 4000% traffic spike during COVID with zero downtime
Cut EUR 600k/year in SaaS and tooling costs through vendor renegotiation
Built a weather forecasting model achieving 93% accuracy for 3M+ users globally

Stanford GSB executive program (2021). Based in Verona, available across EMEA.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Fluent
Italian
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Ignitia
Chief Technology Officer
AGRICULTURE
September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
Stockholm, Sweden
Refactored a 23TB monolithic relational database into normalised schemas and Python/NumPy batch jobs, enabling ML model training.
Developed a hardware-free weather regression forecasting model achieving 93% accuracy, integrated into an LLM-powered RAG chatbot.
Restructured 20+ engineers and PMs into product teams. Sprint predictability went from 60% to 85%.
Automated 80% of deployment workflow through CI/CD pipelines and low-code orchestration, reducing release cycle to daily deployments.
artificial intelligence n8n PostgreSQL Python RabbitMQ
Everli
Chief Technology Officer
E-COMMERCE
August 2022 - August 2024 (2 years)
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Co-defined company strategy, goals, priorities and product/technology roadmaps together with the Leadership Team.
Ran technical due diligence for M&A and fundraising (Series A-D and exit).
Led cross-functional teams delivering products generating EUR 100M+ GMV annually across 200+ cities and 10K+ daily users.
Built, scaled and restructured a fully remote international engineering organisation (70+ engineers, 10+ nationalities) with eNPS above 50.
Optimised and renegotiated company tooling and SaaS contracts, achieving EUR 600k in annual savings.
Managed the career framework, line management strategy, and biannual performance review cycle.
IT Strategy Engineering Management Corporate Strategy Technical Leadership scale-up
Everli
Vice President of Engineering
RETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)
August 2019 - August 2022 (3 years)
Verona, VR, Italy
Led product internationalisation to four markets, planned expansion to six, and later managed consolidation back to a single market.
Hiring manager for cross-functional teams using the STAR framework; also served as interviewer for multiple departments.
Coordinated e-commerce services; during COVID, scaled the platform to handle a more than 4000% increase in new users in one week.
Coordinated background data ingestion microservices, scaling them to handle more than 24M nightly updates.
PHP Cloud computing Redis MySQL Elasticsearch