Matteo De Santi
Chief Innovation Officer - Chief User Centricity Officer
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolMatteo De Santi is a product and design leader with over 20 years of experience shaping user-centered public services and digital transformation across Italy. As Chief Innovation Officer at PagoPA and former lead of the IO public services app, he has driven nationwide initiatives to simplify citizen–government interactions and increase digital payments adoption. He blends hands-on UX/product craft with strategic program leadership, having co-founded Designers Italia and led multidisciplinary teams inside the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Matteo’s background spans startups, public IT companies and academia, giving him a rare fluency in emerging tech (blockchain, conversational interfaces, ML) and practical service delivery. He often bridges research and practice—teaching, speaking internationally and launching projects like Triboom that take digital platforms from concept to international expansion. Quietly, his early roots as a photographer and web developer inform a visual-first approach to data and service design.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Communication Studies, Communication Studies at Università degli Studi di Padova
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
ios10
react-native10
figma10
del10
italia10
android10
spid10
firebase10
sketch10
metaboxes9
visualization9
metadata9
wordpress9
svg9
designer9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
matteodesanti/n8n
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 month
matteodesanti/iasummit-ui-kit
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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