Vincenzo Rippa

Hands-on Technical Lead / Lead Software Engineer

AI-enabled products · Web / Mobile / Cloud · System design and delivery

Milan, Italy

Open to EU / Global Remote roles

Senior software professional with 8+ years of experience designing and delivering applications across mobile, web, cloud, and AI-enabled product environments. Strong hands-on background in technical leadership, system design, API definition, frontend/backend integration, and cloud delivery. Most effective in roles that combine technical direction and direct implementation: shaping solutions, building critical parts, improving engineering practices, and guiding multidisciplinary teams without drifting into pure management.

TypeScriptPythonNext.jsNode.jsSwiftKotlinFlutter/DartPostgreSQLMongoDBDockerAWSGCPserverless architecturesUML/C4

Experience

Lead Software Engineer (Freelance)

Virtuosa

Jan 2026 — Ongoing • Remote

  • Leading technical development for a pre-seed AI media initiative, translating product concepts into a concrete implementation roadmap across web platform, AI workflows, and deployment architecture
  • Designed and shipped the public Next.js + Strapi website, including CMS-driven content sections, domain/DNS configuration, and low-maintenance deployments on Vercel and Render
  • Implemented a low-maintenance, near-zero-cost deployment setup using free-tier PaaS services, enabling the initiative to operate without upfront infrastructure spend
  • Defined the architecture of a serverless AI media workflow, evaluating diffusion-based pipelines, custom ComfyUI workers, and cost-controlled execution models
  • Built prototype components supporting this direction, including Python integrations with external image-generation services and Dockerized ComfyUI workers
  • Worked closely with the founder to translate early design concepts into technically feasible system components and product direction

Technical Lead

Horsa

Feb 2022 — Sep 2025 • Milan, Italy

  • Progressed from mobile lead into broader technical leadership responsibilities across delivery, solution definition, and system-level design in multi-project environments
  • Provided technical ownership for a production e-mobility application domain spanning native mobile apps, backend services, internal admin tooling, and third-party/internal integrations
  • Led development of the native iOS client and became the continuity point for the domain after the original architectural ownership changed, helping maintain technical coherence across teams and releases
  • Governed API contracts, integration flows, and change-impact analysis, working with backend and external teams to align implementation details before development on sensitive areas such as payments and protocol-based integrations
  • Improved engineering discipline across the application domain, including repository access, secret handling, CI/CD practices, technical debt reduction, and code quality review workflows
  • Acted as a cross-stack technical reference for system boundaries, fault analysis, and delivery risk, helping distinguish domain ownership and surface technical constraints early during feature changes and breaking evolutions
  • Contributed to a troubled Flutter/Flame educational game project by stepping into delivery recovery, supporting API/business-logic realignment, and performing hands-on mobile fixes to help bring the product to a client-testable state
  • Supported technical feasibility analysis and estimation for selected new initiatives and change requests, while also conducting technical interviews for mobile and frontend-oriented roles

Mobile Lead

omninext

Feb 2020 — Jan 2022 • Milan, Italy

  • Led technical direction for mobile and cross-platform initiatives, combining architecture definition, delivery leadership, and close collaboration with product and design
  • Defined mobile architecture, service interfaces, and cross-project technical foundations, with work involving Flutter/Dart, Swift, Kotlin, GraphQL, AWS Amplify, Firebase, UML, and flow diagrams
  • Designed, documented, and maintained SDKs and reusable internal libraries, improving reuse and integration across projects
  • Took ownership of release processes and engineering workflows across App Store, Play Store, OTA distribution, fastlane, and GitLab CI
  • Contributed during a transition phase to backlog definition, sprint planning, stakeholder communication, and product evolution without shifting primary focus away from technical leadership

Senior Mobile Developer

Vegan Solutions

Nov 2018 — Jan 2020 • Vicenza / Remote

  • Developed native mobile applications across iOS and Android, contributing to architecture, implementation quality, delivery, and client-facing acceptance phases
  • Took technical leadership responsibilities on greenfield projects for luxury retail and finance-related clients
  • Worked on reusable components, internal technical standards, and coordination with backend and design stakeholders

Associate Application Developer

Accenture

Apr 2017 — Sep 2018 • Naples, Italy

  • Built native iOS applications in structured enterprise environments, contributing to UI implementation, networking, persistence layers, and reusable tooling
  • Gained early experience with production delivery, technical patterns, and collaboration inside larger engineering organizations

Virtuosa

Jan 2026 — Ongoing · Virtuosa

Pre-seed AI media initiative combining a public web platform with the technical exploration of a future AI-assisted animation workflow. My work focused on hands-on web delivery, low-cost infrastructure setup, and architecture definition for a serverless AI execution model.

  • Designed and delivered the public website using Next.js and Strapi, with CMS-driven sections for content publishing and future expansion
  • Set up the supporting web infrastructure, including domain and DNS configuration, external service integration, and low-maintenance deployments on Vercel and Render
  • Defined the architecture direction for a serverless AI workflow intended to avoid the cost of persistent remote GPU sessions
Next.jsTypeScriptNode.jsStrapiPostgreSQLPythonDockerComfyUIVercelRender

MyNextMove — Sorgenia

Feb 2022 — Sep 2025 · Horsa

Production e-mobility platform for Sorgenia acting as an EMP (eMobility Service Provider), enabling customers to discover, book, and pay for charging sessions across multiple charging networks through interchange and protocol-based integrations.

  • Provided technical ownership for the application domain across native mobile clients, backend services, and internal admin tooling
  • Led development of the native iOS application and became the continuity point for the domain after the original architectural ownership changed
  • Governed API contracts, integration flows, and change-impact analysis, working with backend teams and external technical stakeholders before implementation on sensitive areas such as payments and protocol-based integrations
SwiftKotlinVue.jsNode.jsJava Spring BootMongoDB AtlasRedisGKEAPI Gateway