Summary
Riccardo Cappello is an Azure Cloud & AI Senior Consultant with over two decades in software and ICT and a decade focused on cloud transformation, app modernization, and Azure PaaS/Serverless architectures. He blends hands-on application architecture and team leadership with client-facing discovery workshops, portfolio assessments, and cost-optimization strategies that leverage Reserved Instances, Hybrid Use Benefit and BYOL. A former Microsoft Azure MVP and Intel Software Innovator, he’s equally at home designing hybrid-cloud roadmaps as he is coaching teams and delivering presales technical strategy across Automotive, Energy, Retail and Telecommunications. His career path spans engineering, operational management and consulting—evidence of a practitioner who moved from building products to shaping how organizations adopt cloud at scale. Based in Tuscany, he stays active in the .NET community as a DotNetToscana staff member and speaker, and brings a continuous-learning mindset and rapid problem-solving approach to complex migrations and modernization programs.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Istituto Tecnico Industriale "Leonardo Da Vinci" - Firenze
English, Italian