Mario Colombo
Marketing AI Architect
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMario Colombo is an AI-focused technologist and product leader with 11 years of experience designing and orchestrating AI-powered workflows that help organizations grow faster with less overhead. Based in Zurich, he blends hands-on engineering, product strategy and go-to-market experience from roles ranging from founding tech lead at a digital agency to senior product manager at Webrepublic. As President and Strategy Lead of the django CMS Association he guides an open-source platform and contributes practical improvements—ranging from deployment-ready Docker quickstarts to updated contributor docs. He currently architects marketing AI agents that automate growth tasks while reducing operational complexity for teams. Comfortable bridging business and engineering, he brings a BBA from Universität St. Gallen and a track record of turning technical improvements into better developer and deployment experiences. Notably, his open-source work emphasizes production readiness and clear community communication, not just feature patches.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General at Universität St. Gallen-Hochschule für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften
English, Spanish, Italian, French, German
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Github Skills (23)
docker10
bootstrap10
python10
django10
dockers10
scrapy10
documentation10
cms9
django-cms9
macos9
pip6
html6
tinymce6
android-emulator6
google-sheets6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
django-cms/django-cms-quickstart
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
A Dockerised django CMS project, ready to deploy on Divio or another Docker-based cloud platform, and run locally in Docker on your own machine. A Divio account is not required.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 31 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mario primarily focused on upgrading the Django CMS quickstart project, including upgrading the core CMS version and implementing static file serving. They addressed database setup and standardized the application name. Furthermore, they made changes to support production deployment, including environment variable handling for debugging and allowed hosts, while also updating the project's dependencies for Bootstrap 4 and then reverting to Bootstrap 4, all aimed at providing an improved development and deployment experience.
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django-cms/django-cms
May 2022 - May 2022
The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 reviews, 3 commits, 5 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Mario primarily focused on updating and correcting documentation within the django-cms project. Their commits involved replacing outdated information with new, correct information regarding the project's communication channels, including Discord. The user updated contributing guidelines and added details on an AI bot, ensuring users have accurate and up-to-date resources for the project.
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