Antonio Cesarano
Lead Product Manager at Proton
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAntonio Cesarano is a product leader and former software engineer with 11 years of experience building privacy-first, user-centric security products from Geneva. As Lead Product Manager at Proton he owns VPN product vision and strategy across consumer and business segments, having driven 10x DAU growth and sustained +30% YoY revenue through UX redesigns, product-led growth, and cross-functional OKR alignment. His background includes engineering roles at CERN and Red Hat, where he moved from JVM visualization and tooling into product management, shipping a B2B2C open-access publishing platform that could save publishers millions. Antonio combines technical depth with strategic execution—hiring and scaling teams, negotiating partnerships, and turning compliance and privacy requirements into delightful, measurable user outcomes. He holds a Laurea Magistrale in Informatica (110 cum laude) and brings a pragmatic academic rigor to building dependable, privacy-preserving internet tools. Notably, he blends hands-on engineering instincts with product leadership, making trade-offs that balance growth, security, and user trust.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Magistrale in Informatica, Information Technology & Management, 110 cum laude, Laurea Magistrale in Informatica, Information Technology & Management, 110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di Salerno
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (37)
json10
javascript10
python10
backend10
flask10
angular10
json-schema9
json-data9
scraper9
protonvpn9
merge9
query-parser9
frontend9
transform9
crawler9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ammirate/inspirehep
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
WIP inspirehep frontoffice
Contributions:236 pushes, 37 branches in 9 months
wipreactinspirehep
francese2015/LostJohn
May 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 release, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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