Profile
25 years in software, from robotics research to mobile TV for telecom carriers and an app with 10M+ downloads. I take a service from idea to production on my own — and I speak the language of marketing, sales, management and engineering, so one system ends up working for all of them.
Business ↔ techTurning what marketing, sales and operations ask for into working systems.
End to end, any domainDesign, build, integrate and run a complete service: sport, telecom, media, travel.
Built for scaleFutbol24: 10M+ downloads, about 1.5M users a month, realtime backend.
Experience
Italian software studio building and running its own services. I lead the technical side, from product design to production.
Products
- Futbol24 · App Store · Google Play — soccer livescore app, 10M+ downloads, ~1.5M users a month. React Native + Expo with native modules; PHP, MySQL, Redis and ActiveMQ backend; custom Varnish module in C with a 99.7% cache hit ratio.
- Notiflow — our push notification platform, direct APNs + FCM. Sends every Futbol24 notification.
- Microprogress — project journal for builders and teams (React Native + Expo, web dashboard).
Client work
- DGV Travel · tour operator · 2023, 2025 – present
Sole developer and technical lead of the company's sales and operations platform: back-office for tours, quotes and contracts; marketing attribution of every request (Google, Meta, TikTok); automatic assignment to sales staff; WhatsApp Business via Meta's Cloud API inside the back-office.
- KikiTravels · 2026
Web app turned into native iOS and Android apps, published on both stores. Rated 5.0 by the client.
Beeweeb · mobile software agency
2000 – 2015
Software Engineer 2000–06 · CTO 2006–08 · Chief Technical Architect 2008–09 · CTO 2009–15
Grew with the company from developer to head of production and CTO, while revenue went from a few hundred thousand euros to €5M a year.
- Mobile products for carriers before iPhone and Android (Symbian, Java ME): Vodafone Calcio, Vodafone mobile TV in several countries, the music players preinstalled on 3 Italia phones.
- Clients: Vodafone (Italy, Germany, UK), H3G / Three (Italy, Sweden, Norway, UK, Australia), Intuit.
- The first iPhone app for Vodafone Italia, live at the day-one iPhone launch in Italy (2008).
Technical skills
- Mobile
- React Native, Expo, iOS (Swift, Objective-C), Android (Kotlin, Java), store releases
- Backend
- Node.js, NestJS, PHP, TypeScript, REST APIs, WebSocket, ActiveMQ
- Data
- MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, Varnish (custom module in C)
- Web
- Next.js, React, back-office and admin dashboards
- Integrations
- WhatsApp Cloud API, push at scale (APNs, FCM), Firebase, marketing attribution
- Infrastructure
- Bare-metal Linux, nginx, Apache; AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, CloudFront)
Education
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Master's degree in Computer Engineering (5-year Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica)
1994 – 1999
Languages
Italian — native
English — fluent
Publication
S. Panzieri, D. Petroselli, G. Ulivi — Topological localization on indoor sonar based fuzzy maps. IAS-6, Venice, IOS Press, 2000, pp. 596–603.
Robot navigation from noisy, uncertain sensor data with a lean algorithm.