Raffaele
Pizzari
Engineering manager in Munich. I lead teams, build products, and write about what I learn along the way.
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About
The short version
Senior Engineering Manager at Quantilope in Munich. Before that, Accenture Song. Before that, startups, agencies, a company I founded, and a teaching gig at a university in Rome.
I care about engineering leadership, AI in development, and building products that actually work. I write about all of it here. Outside of work: family, photography, chess, and side projects.
Beliefs
How I work
Safety first
Diverse teams that feel safe produce better work. That's not ideology, it's what I've seen over and over.
Learn in the open
Share what you know. Share what you don't. Writing and teaching builds trust faster than having all the answers.
Ship early
Real feedback from real users beats any amount of planning. The best version is never the first one.
Unblock others
A manager's job is to make the team better, not to be the bottleneck. Coach, share context, get out of the way.
Keep it simple
The best architecture is the one the whole team understands. Maintainability beats cleverness.
Impact over credit
Good ideas can come from anywhere. What matters is building something useful, not who gets the credit.
Experience
Work history
Senior Engineering Manager
Leading an engineering team building a consumer insights platform. AI, product, and people.
Product Engineering Manager
Led cross-functional engineering teams on client projects. Architecture, system design, shipping production software. JavaScript, Node.js, AWS.
Course Creator
Designed and recorded a JavaScript programming course for an e-learning platform.
Senior Front-End Developer
Built a web platform connecting insurance companies and customers. Owned the design system, migrated a React MVP, set up CI/CD.
Full-Stack Developer
Built geo-marketing products rendering large datasets on interactive maps. Market data, demographics, Geoserver.
Software Developer
C# software for smart carts in warehouse logistics. Built interfaces, tested on-site in warehouses.
Founder & CEO
Founded a company building web products and running digital campaigns. Managed a team, handled clients, grew the business.
Teacher & Academic Tutor
Taught multimedia and online journalism at master's level. Academic tutor for web and new technologies applied to journalism.
Junior Web Developer
Web solutions for the Italian Ministry of Education. Internal search engine for HP. C#, HTML, CSS.
Writing
Recent thinking
How I Built My Perfect Family Budget App in Just 3 Days
Frustrated by budget apps that couldn't tell me where my money went, I built my own with Next.js and automation—and got real visibility in days.
The Year I Stopped Apologizing for the Chaos
Parenting young kids while leading a team: on guilt, the myth of balance, and finally refusing to apologize for being human.
The Abundance Trap: Why We Are Renting the Future
AI doesn't abolish scarcity—it reorganizes it. Why cheap output hides who controls the real choke points: compute, energy, and capacity.
Side Projects
Built on the side
BlaBla Teleprompter
Web-based teleprompter with voice-paced scrolling, smart tags, and a clean reading experience.
blabla.pixari.dev →MarkMySlide
Markdown-to-presentation tool. Grid layout system for dynamic slides, built with React and TypeScript.
markmyslide.pixari.dev →Bonus Level
Career Climber
A small platformer based on my career. Rome to Munich, collecting skills along the way.
Arrow keys or WASD to move · Space to jump · On mobile, use the on-screen controls
Publications
Academic work
Subjectivity and activism of the Purple Movement in Italy
Research publicationLa giostra multimediale 2.0
Research publicationBackground
Education &
credentials
Production Cultures, Journalism & Multimedia
Communication & Media Studies
AWS Certified Developer, Associate
Amazon Web ServicesItalian
Native or BilingualEnglish
Full ProfessionalGerman
Professional WorkingTestimonials
What colleagues say
I had the privilege of working alongside Raffaele at Accenture Song. He consistently demonstrates a genuine willingness to assist, support, and mentor less experienced colleagues. Through numerous pair coding sessions, I learned extensively. His patience and eagerness to explain concepts have significantly contributed to my professional growth. Raffaele stands out as a remarkably positive, supportive, and kind colleague.
Working with Raffaele is a certainty of success. Creative, competent and reliable. Able to transform complex things in simple actions. Raffaele is a detail-oriented manager who watches the goal target like a hawk without losing the strategic objective.
Raffaele has a very positive predisposition to teamwork and he uses a well defined perspective, being exceptionally creative at the same time. His innate curiosity allows him to be always well-informed and highly knowledgeable about all the innovations in his field.
Raffaele is very detail oriented. Great quick thinker. His frameworks for crisis management on social networks are awesome. A great professional to work with.
Raffaele è uno sviluppatore e CEO molto attivo, ben organizzato e competente. I lavori svolti sotto la sua supervisione sono sempre risultati veloci e ben strutturati.
I have had the pleasure of working with Raffaele. I think that he is one of the most professional people I know: having a great ability to work hard, he is a very efficient person.
Raffaele was precious in our team introducing some effective web developing tools and contributing effortfully to the content creation and publishing.
Invidio la visione che Raffaele ha del web. È un "enthusiast" nel senso stretto del termine: affronta ogni progetto con una carica invidiabile.
Un ottimo professionista, Raffaele, e con una spiccata vocazione per il lavoro di squadra. Mi ha colpito per la passione, la disponibilità e la capacità di integrare con successo le idee altrui.
Raffaele è un manager scrupoloso, pieno di idee e di creatività, segue il progetto nei minimi dettagli ed è sempre attento a raggiungere gli obiettivi fissati.
Raffaele è stato il mio superiore durante un'esperienza di stage presso EgoRego. Determinato nel suo lavoro, disponibile e attento alle richieste di clienti e dipendenti, è un professionista giovane, ma estremamente capace.
Ho conosciuto Raffaele alla LUMSA, quando entrambi eravamo collaboratori di cattedra di editoria multimediale. Raffaele è una persona precisa e concreta.
Professionale, puntuale, preciso. Persona dinamica seria ed affidabile.
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