Summary
Marco Risi is a pragmatic CTO with 11 years of experience building and scaling fully remote, international engineering organizations and high-traffic consumer products. He has repeatedly grown teams from single digits to dozens across multiple nationalities, driven product internationalization and platforms that now handle 100M+ yearly GMV and 10K+ daily users. Hands-on from his early days as a full-stack developer to running engineering at scale, he blends architecture, DevOps transformation (AWS/GCP), and people-focused practices like engineering ladders and OKRs. At Skiller Whale he improved curriculum throughput by 40% and scaled coaching while keeping exceptional learner NPS, showing he balances product metrics with team health. Now CTO at Qomodo, he brings a track record of operationalizing growth, M&A due diligence, and turning ambiguous product challenges into repeatable delivery processes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Ingegneria informatica, Master's degree Ingegneria informatica at Università di Pavia
Bachelor's degree Ingegneria informatica, Bachelor's degree Ingegneria informatica at Università degli Studi di Pavia - sede di Mantova
Italian, English