Summary
Ottavio Fogliata is an AI Engineer Team Lead based in Rome with 10 years of experience building production-grade software and leading engineering teams across startups and scaleups. He combines hands-on expertise in PHP/JS backend systems, cloud-native infrastructures (Kubernetes on AWS/GCP/Azure) and proprietary LLM research—work he originally developed as a side project that became the core tech for his startup, Storykube. As CEO/CTO he raised €310K, ran cross-functional teams, and owned fundraising, product and tech strategy, then moved to lead AI engineering at TeamSystem. He also teaches programming and software architecture, bringing a practical mentorship style to team leadership. Notably, his career blends deep full-stack engineering roots with recent applied research in high-performance language models and hybrid cloud deployments.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione, Lettere e Filosofia, Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione, Lettere e Filosofia at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Diploma di Capotecnico Informatico, ITI INFORMATICO, Diploma di Capotecnico Informatico, ITI INFORMATICO at ITI Informatico