David Riccitelli
Cofounder And CTO at REDLINK GmbH
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolDavid Riccitelli is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder who has been shaping the web since the 1990s and now serves as CTO of WordLift, a leading semantic SEO and knowledge-graph platform based in Rome. He blends deep product and engineering experience—having built an early semantic CMS and led R&D and technical operations at multiple companies—with hands-on startup execution that has doubled WordLift’s impact year over year. David’s background spans ISP and hosting infrastructure, developer advocacy, and COO-level operational leadership, giving him rare fluency across systems, product strategy, and go-to-market execution. A long-time advocate for the semantic Web, he translates linked-data ideas into practical SEO tooling that helps publishers turn content into machine-readable knowledge.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
1996 Diploma, 1996 Diploma at MalpighiCommunication Sciences, Communication Sciences at Sapienza Università di Roma
English, Italian, French, German
Stackoverflow
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21questions
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Github Skills (200)
semantic-web10
bots10
metadata10
bitnami10
http-post10
jung10
crawler10
schema10
powerapps10
api10
knowledge-graph10
organize10
vsix10
vmware10
llm10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
seontology/seontology
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
SEOntology is a universal framework and shared vocabulary for SEO, designed to standardize data across tools, connect concepts, and automate SEO and marketing tasks.
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 5 months
ziodave/wordpress-tests
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:108 pushes, 3 branches, 242 tags in 1 year 11 months
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