Software engineer · Fractional CTO · Growth engineer Licensed Ingegnere dell'Informazione (Italy, Sez. A) · 11 years between enterprise consulting and my own products.
I build products end-to-end and take responsibility for all of it: architecture, team, release, and what each technical choice actually costs. Marketing background, systems-thinking habit, and a mild addiction to weird technologies.
🎓 MSc in Management Engineering (LM-31): done, finally 🏛️ Licensed Information Engineer: September 2026 session 👨🏫 Teaching Computer Science in an Italian technical high school, because explaining things well is the real test 🧠 SEO, GEO, code and AI, mixed until things scale 💡 From civic tech to SaaS, I've touched everything except COBOL. Still time.
🧠 ShopBrain SRL: founder & CTO (startup innovativa)
A family of SaaS products designed and built in-house, all on one shared infrastructure: Stripe billing, SDKs on npm/PyPI, multi-database PostgreSQL, containerized deploys, integration tests on real databases.
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| 🛍️ ShopBrain | Conversational assistant for e-commerce that answers from the real catalog data. Shopify, WooCommerce, on site, WhatsApp, Telegram |
| 📅 BookBrain | Online bookings and calendars, with an embeddable widget for any site |
| 📦 ShipBrain | Multi-tenant shipment tracking, with an MCP server built in |
| 🌐 SiteBrain | Sites for micro-businesses, regenerated from a URL on a prefab design system |
RAG and agents on domain data with mandatory source citation, because that is what makes an output verifiable instead of merely plausible.
🚀 GrowFlow Studio: independent tech consulting
SEO & GEO (generative engine optimization), design systems, headless CMS, e-commerce. Structured data and entity knowledge graphs, built to be cited by generative engines, not just indexed.
🏛️ OpenLegis: civic tech / OSINT
A knowledge graph of how Italian and EU laws relate to each other, fed by connectors to official sources: Normattiva, Camera & Senato, EUR-Lex, Gazzetta Ufficiale, Corte Costituzionale, Cassazione, CKAN, Eurostat. The connectors are open source and published as MCP servers (see below).
Everything ships under @growflowstudio on npm and growflowstudio on PyPI.
🏛️ Civic tech: MCP servers
| Package | ||
|---|---|---|
| republic-mcp |  |
Italian Parliament open data: SPARQL tools over the official Camera and Senato endpoints, plus OpenPolis data (votes, attendance, decrees) |
| open-parlamento-mcp |  |
Italian law (Constitution and codes, via LightRAG), EU law (EUR-Lex), parliamentary bills, amendment relations (Normattiva), case law, Eurostat, Gazzetta Ufficiale, CKAN |
💳 GrowFlow Billing: the subscription, checkout and invoicing layer behind every *Brain product
| Package | |
|---|---|
@growflowstudio/growflowbilling-client |
 Node/TS client |
growflowbilling-client |
 Python client (docs) |
@growflowstudio/growflowbilling-admin-core |
 Headless admin: API client, React Query hooks, types |
@growflowstudio/growflowbilling-admin-ui |
 shadcn/ui admin pages, forms and tables |
📅 GrowFlow Booking: the engine behind BookBrain
| Package | |
|---|---|
@growflowstudio/growflowbooking-widget |
 React components and standalone embed |
@growflowstudio/growflowbooking-client |
 Node/TS client |
growflowbooking-client |
 Python SDK |
@growflowstudio/growflowbooking-admin-core · -admin-ui |
Headless admin SDK + shadcn/ui components |
🛍️ ShopBrain
| Package | |
|---|---|
@growflowstudio/shopbrain-chat-widget |
 Embeddable AI chat for e-commerce, one script tag |
| Sky | Software Architect: requirements → architecture → dev teams, ADRs as first-class artifacts |
| Facile.it | Senior SEO Full-Stack Engineer: led SEO optimization on a comparator with millions of users |
| Octopus Energy | Senior Front-End Lead: Italian front-end in a multi-country team |
| Liferay | Full-Stack Dev on an open-source enterprise DXP |
| Deloitte | Cloud Developer: AWS, IaC, serverless, ETL pipelines |
| Accenture | Full-Stack Dev: luxury e-commerce on AEM + SAP Hybris, tracking & analytics |
| Henable | Co-founder: social coop for digital accessibility, before it was cool |
- MCP servers and AI agents that plug into real business systems
- Civic tech, open data and digital rights
- Products where marketing, tech and design collide, in chaos and in harmony
- Anything that makes complex infra... disappear
- Knowledge graphs + LightRAG in production
- AI Act / L. 132/2025 compliance as an engineering problem
- How to say "no" to the 10th side project of the week (still failing)
- The best sea in Europe to cry on after a failed deploy 🌊
- Explaining SEO to your grandma, and now GEO as well
- How I accidentally ranked higher than a client's homepage 😬
- Where to find good Wi-Fi and even better coffee in random countries
Languages
Front-end & design systems
Back-end & data
AI
Cloud & delivery
…and a long tail of things I've shipped with at some point
Angular · Gatsby · Laravel · Symfony · WordPress · AEM · SAP Hybris · Liferay · MongoDB · MySQL · Supabase · Prisma · Firebase · Elasticsearch · Three.js · D3 · React Native · Expo · Electron · Solidity · OCaml · C · R · Vercel · Netlify · Render · CircleCI · GitLab CI · Tealium · GTM · GA4
📧 giulio@growflow.studio · 🌐 growflow.studio 📍 Milan, or wherever the Wi-Fi works
