About
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 write about engineering leadership and AI in development here, mostly the questions I haven't settled myself. Outside of work: family, photography, chess, and side projects.
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.
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.
Keep it simple
The best architecture is the one the whole team understands. Maintainability beats cleverness.
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
Side Projects
Built on the side
Gitvana
Browser game that teaches git through 35 levels. Real terminal, real git commands, pixel art monastery. Free and open source.
gitvana.pixari.dev →UV Index
A minimal, no-clutter UV index checker for quick sun exposure data.
uvindex.pixari.dev →Background
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.
Publications
Academic work
Subjectivity and activism of the Purple Movement in Italy
Research publicationLa giostra multimediale 2.0
Research publicationContact
Get in touch
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