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Alessio Ragni
Forward Deployed / Applied AI Engineer · Product Builder · Product Engineer
Italy — Remote (CET) · alessio.ragni@gmail.com · LinkedIn
I have been building products since 2010 — first writing the code, then deciding what got built, and now both at once. Built and ran 400+ API integrations used daily by 2,500+ customers at LeadsBridge, where I arrived as the only developer and left as CPO with $3M ARR and an acquisition; then led Workato’s $37M+ ARR Embedded Platform, the iPaaS white-labeled inside other SaaS products. Today I build AI-first products hands-on with Claude Code, Cursor, and MCP. The combination a forward-deployed team needs: integration depth, customer-facing product judgment, and the ability to write vibe the code.
Skills
- AI
- Claude Code · skills · subagents · MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, built and consumed · k0 (my own, open source) · LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) · agentic tool-use loops · structured outputs · prompt engineering · evals · model benchmarking with per-call cost and latency accounting · RAG and retrieval (tool-calling and embeddings) · LLM tracing (Langfuse, OpenTelemetry)
- Engineering
- TypeScript · Python · SQL · React · Next.js · Astro · Node · GraphQL · API design (REST, webhooks) · Playwright · data-extraction and OCR pipelines · notebooks · Snowflake · Git/GitHub · GitHub Actions
- Architecture
- Integration layers · embedded and white-label platforms · workflow engines · event and webhook plumbing at volume · event-driven serverless ETL (Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3) · Docker on ECS Fargate · AWS CDK and Serverless Framework · AWS Amplify · distributed crawling behind a proxy fleet · databases (Postgres/Supabase with RLS, RDS, Azure)
- Product
- Discovery and user research · technical scoping and solution design alongside the customer · roadmaps built from zero · API and integration products · go-to-market alongside sales
Work experience
Founder & sole engineer Astika Nov 2025 – Present
AI-first platform for Italian judicial property auctions. · Italy, remote
- Wrote the overwhelming majority of the code and built the whole system end to end: crawlers over three court portals, LLM extraction pipelines that read appraisals and notices of sale, scoring, and the web app — agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, and MCP.
- Runs discovery directly with users, interviewing private buyers and auction professionals, and turns it straight into what ships.
- Owns the architecture across 7 repositories and roughly 641k lines on AWS, GCP and Supabase.
Product Lead, Integrations PandaDoc Oct 2024 – May 2026
Document-automation SaaS, ~50k customers. · Remote
- Owned the CRM integrations portfolio — Salesforce, HubSpot, Monday.com, Pipedrive — connecting document workflows to customers’ systems of record across a ~50k-customer base.
- Inherited an area with no prioritisation and rebuilt it around two directions: depth on Salesforce and HubSpot — the CRMs behind 80%+ of every customer running an integration — and one general integration layer for everything else.
- Designed that layer hands-on, the flow and the data contract, and it is what made the PandaDoc MCP possible: the same operations exposed as tools, so an AI assistant reads from and writes to a customer’s CRM, wired into PandaDoc’s internal workflow engine.
Senior Product Manager, Embedded Platform Workato Jan 2023 – Aug 2024
- Product lead for the Embedded iPaaS business unit, $37M+ ARR — Workato’s platform white-labeled inside other SaaS products, so every engagement was a deployment into someone else’s product.
- First stable product manager the unit ever had: stood up a customer advisory board with its enterprise customers, built the two-year roadmap from scratch, and presented it at Automate to 500+ customers.
- Pushed the platform API-first, the change those enterprise customers kept asking for — working alongside sales and directly with the customers deploying it.
- Owned the embedded roadmap while most of what it needed was built by other product teams, and worked their plans directly to get it shipped.
Product Director ActiveProspect 2021 – 2022
- Steered a team of 20 engineers, solution architects, PMs and designers.
- Led the LeadsBridge → ActiveProspect handover: put their engineers in a position to run the platform without me, and connected the two products, as the combined team grew from 35 to 50+.
Founding engineer → Chief Product Officer LeadsBridge 2015 – 2021
- Arrived first and wrote the platform myself (PHP, MySQL, AWS): lead routing, deduplication and sync reliability across CRM, email marketing, HR and automotive stacks — the unglamorous part of integration work, at volume.
- Grew it to 400+ API integrations used daily by 2,500+ customers and $3M ARR; hired the team from 0 to 35, handed engineering over, and stayed as CPO through the acquisition by ActiveProspect.
- Official ads-integration partner of Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn: built and maintained against their platform APIs and partner requirements.
- Introduced a product-led growth engine letting customers self-serve their own integrations.
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Software Developer — freelance2014 – 2015
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Software Engineering Manager — Automa S.r.l.Jan 2010 – Nov 2014
Led a team of four engineers; hardware and software for a product installed in 5,000+ locations worldwide.
Projects
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Open-source kanban board that watches your Claude Code sessions and lights up the one that needs you. MIT, no telemetry, not a single network request.
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Italian judicial property auctions indexed and made readable — three court portals, LLM extraction, an explainable 0–100 verdict.
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A home voice assistant that starts out knowing almost nothing and writes its own abilities when it hits something it cannot do — out loud, in a sandbox, against four principles it is not allowed to rewrite.
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Public writing on hands-on AI engineering practice.
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Alfred, your AI-butler
Solo concept-to-shipped AI assistant: real-time translation, summaries, instant query resolution.
Education
Degree in Computer Science — University of Camerino (Unicam), Italy
🇮🇹 Italian (native) · 🇬🇧 English (C1) · 🇪🇸 Spanish (C1)