Riccardo Michelon
Software Engineer.
Overview
Founding Engineer @Datapizza
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Ciao :)
24 y/o software engineer, founding engineer at Datapizza, Italy's biggest AI deployment company (€10M Series A).
Started programming at 12 on my dad's laptop, hacking together mini games and abandoning them the moment gravity and physics walked in. Always been into building things, and computer science felt like the most accessible craft of all: a PC and an idea, nothing else needed. What I came to value most was simplicity and the discipline of questioning the obvious answer ("Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Tanenbaum).
Some of my recent work:
- Building DualOS, an AI orchestration platform for creating and running agents and workflows connected to customer systems and accessible through conversational channels and custom apps.
- Built Datapizza Jobs, a recruiting platform with 100k+ candidates and €1M+ ARR. Led five engineers and owned the platform’s architecture and infrastructure.
I want to make technology transparent: built to fit into people's lives without constantly pulling them away from what they care about.
When I'm not programming, you can find me training calisthenics, climbing, running around the hills of Padova, losing fights with my guitar, or buried in a 19th-century novel.
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Blog(1)
Experience
- Building DualOS, an AI orchestration platform for creating and running agents and workflows connected to customer systems and accessible through conversational channels and custom apps.
- Built Datapizza Jobs, a recruiting platform with 100k+ candidates and €1M+ ARR.
- Led five engineers and owned the platform’s architecture and infrastructure.
- Rewrote a multi-language microservice architecture split across 10+ repositories into a TypeScript/Effect monolith in a single monorepo. Rebuilt the AWS infrastructure as code with Alchemy.
- TypeScript
- Effect
- React
- TanStack
- Bun
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- Alchemy
- Django
Datasoil
- Go
- React
- MongoDB
CNET
- Python
- VMware ESX
Education
Università degli Studi di Padova
- Awarded the "Incentivi lauree scientifiche" scholarship for three consecutive years.
I.T.I. F. Severi
Projects(3)
- Build-time generator that converts JSON Schema definitions into native validators for multiple languages
- Handles schema discovery, draft normalization, $ref resolution, bundling, and compliance testing
- Go
- JSON Schema
- DX
- Validation
- TypeScript
- Python
- RAG system commissioned by AzzurroDigitale Srl for querying uploaded documents through a chatbot
- Includes document management, multi-chat support, voice commands and configurable LLM/database backends
- Full Stack App
- Next.js
- Flask
- LangChain
- GPT
- AWS
- ChromaDB
- PostgreSQL