Technical Leader · AI & Data Engineering

Michele
Mader

I drive AI and data engineering initiatives for enterprise clients — owning technical direction, designing scalable architectures, and pushing teams from strategy all the way to production. I don't wait to be asked: I spot the problem, design the solution, and ship it.

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About

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At Fortop S.R.L., I lead the technical direction of AI-driven data products for enterprise clients — defining architecture, selecting the right tools, and ensuring teams deliver reliable, scalable systems in production.

I currently lead a market intelligence platform built on SEMrush, DataForSEO, ClickHouse, and Gemini — delivering Share of Voice and AI visibility metrics to brand managers at Fortune-500-level companies. I own the technical roadmap, make stack decisions, and coordinate delivery across engineering and business stakeholders.

I'm an advanced user of Claude Code — Anthropic's AI coding agent — integrating it into real engineering workflows to ship faster without losing architectural control. I use it daily for architecture, implementation, and code review, and I know exactly where it accelerates delivery and where human judgement is non-negotiable.

My strength is translating ambiguous business problems into concrete technical architectures — and making sure those architectures get built right. I move fast, I think ahead, and I don't stop until it works.

5+
Enterprise platforms led
AI
Strategy & architecture
E2E
From roadmap to production
IT
Cross-functional leadership

How I work

My approach

01

I don't wait to be asked

If I see a problem upstream — a bottleneck, a wrong assumption, a risk nobody named — I flag it immediately and bring a concrete solution. Proactivity isn't a trait, it's a responsibility.

02

I treat the client's problem as my own

I'm not a vendor who executes specs. I'm a technical partner who cares about the outcome. If the direction is wrong, I say so — then I help find the right one.

03

Ideas are cheap. Shipping is the differentiator.

I value clarity and momentum over endless planning. I'd rather put something real in front of users and iterate than spend months designing the perfect system that never gets built.

04

Positive energy is a technical asset

Hard problems are hard enough without a heavy atmosphere around them. I bring focus and optimism to every project — because teams that believe in what they're building, build better things.

What I lead

Core expertise

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AI Strategy & LLM Systems

AI Roadmap Ownership LLM Brand Monitoring AEO / AI Visibility AI Coding & Planning Agents Claude Code Gemini 2.5 Pro On-premise LLMs n8n Orchestration Prompt Engineering
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Data Architecture

Platform Design ClickHouse Share of Voice Pipeline Orchestration DataForSEO / SEMrush Apache Kafka Scalability Planning
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Technical Leadership

Engineering Direction Stakeholder Alignment Team Coordination Technical Roadmaps Code Review Standards Build vs. Buy Decisions Cross-functional Delivery
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Analytics & SEO Intelligence

Market Analysis Visibility Metrics Google Search Console Keyword Strategy Google / Bing Ads API Executive Dashboards
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Compliance Engineering

INPS / UniEmens Regulatory Automation Payslip AI Extraction GECO Exemptions NuExtract Italian Labour Law
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Platform & Infrastructure

System Design Docker / Linux Self-hosted LLMs FastAPI / Node.js Redis / MongoDB Nginx PHP / Laravel / Yii2

Tools & technology

Preferred stack

Claude Code AI coding agent — daily driver for architecture & implementation
ClickHouse Primary analytics database (ReplacingMergeTree)
Gemini 2.5 Pro Keyword generation & LLM tasks
DataForSEO SERP scraping & enrichment
SEMrush API Keyword expansion & volume data
Python / FastAPI Pipeline orchestration & APIs
n8n Workflow automation
Ollama / LM Studio Local LLM inference (on-premise)
MongoDB Document storage & processing queues
Vue.js / React Dashboard & frontend interfaces
Apache Kafka Event streaming
MySQL / PostgreSQL Relational data storage & transactional systems
PHP / Laravel / Yii2 Backend applications
NuExtract Payslip data extraction

Live demo

Share of Voice explorer

A simplified replica of the market intelligence tool I build for enterprise clients. Select an industry and click a keyword to see how brands compete for visibility.

Strong (>30%) Present (15–30%) Weak (<15%)

Let's build
something
real

I'm available for select technical leadership engagements — AI strategy, data platform architecture, or fractional tech lead where real ownership is needed. I'll tell you in the first conversation whether I can add genuine value. If I can, we move fast.

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