Summary
Matteo Palvarini is a Director of Engineering and founder with 12 years of experience building 0-to-1 products and teams across startups and big tech from San Francisco. He has led founding engineering efforts at LinkedIn Sales Insights, co-founded and served as CTO of Curio (AI-powered patient support), and most recently launched an AI meditation app that experimented with voice-first, real-time conversational interfaces. At Spring Health he now leads a new venture focused on removing barriers to mental health, while advising and angel investing in early-stage health tech and wellbeing startups. Matteo blends hands-on engineering across front-end, AI/RAG systems, and product leadership with a deep interest in mindfulness—he even helped create LinkedIn’s global mindfulness program and writes about tech leadership and wellbeing. His background spans clinical-facing AI, enterprise SaaS scale-ups, and academic HCI, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth, product intuition, and people-first leadership.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Inner MBA, Inner MBA at New York University
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano