Hello, I'm Marco Visin.
Tech Lead & Entrepreneur
I am passionate of Technology and Entrepreneurship, co-founder of the AI startup Orango Labs and currently serving as Head of Engineering at AirConsole, the world's first gaming platform specifically designed for cars, revolutionizing in-car entertainment.
Freshly graduated as an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) at SDA Bocconi, ranking 3rd in the MBA rankings of the Financial Times.
Who am I?
Let me start this Bio with the key point: I am nerd. Seriously. I can easily get lost for hours in learning why Boeing 737 aircraft is not equipped with landing-gear doors. And yes, I am definitely the kind of person who gets excited in building random tech toys, without losing heart when the car trunk accidentally catches fire in the process (but that's another story).
I was born in Milano in 1987 and I joined the IT Dark Side after graduating in Telecommunication Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
I am polyglot in both spoken and programming languages. I am fluent in Italian and English, but I also understand German. I count C#, Java, Python and Bash amongst the programming languages I have professionally worked with.
As a manager, I am always looking for combining technical excellence with an attractive and functional product, to maximise the customer satisfaction.
I have always had a passion for entrepreneurship and startups, and in recent months I have had the opportunity to try my hand at these fascinating realities.
Education
Licenses & certifications
- Technical Leadership: Leading a dedicated engineering team focused on delivering innovative gaming solutions for the automotive industry, ensuring seamless integration with car infotainment systems.
- Strategic Partnerships: Collaborating directly with automotive manufacturers to deploy AirConsole’s gaming platform on their hardware, managing technical requirements and implementation roadmaps.
- Product Development: Driving the development of cutting-edge in-car gaming experiences, optimizing for various vehicle environments and ensuring compliance with automotive industry standards.
- Cross-functional Coordination: Acting as the primary technical liaison between engineering teams and automotive partners, translating business requirements into technical specifications.
- Innovation Pipeline: Contributing to AirConsole’s mission of transforming vehicle downtime into engaging entertainment experiences, particularly during charging breaks and waiting periods.
- Strategic Leadership: Directed a cross‑regional development team of 40 engineers (Czech Republic, Switzerland, India), implementing innovative production software solutions and scaling systems to support Rieter’s position as a leader in the textile manufacturing sector.
- Digital Transformation Pioneer: Spearheaded the organization’s digitalization journey, introducing cutting‑edge technologies to optimize machine functionalities, automate maintenance processes, and enhance operational efficiency.
- Executive Collaboration: Partnered closely with C‑level executives and Business Unit (BU) directors to align technological initiatives with corporate strategy, ensuring projects met both operational and strategic objectives.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Acted as the primary liaison between the development department and senior leadership, effectively communicating technical advancements, project roadmaps, and business impacts.
- Budget & Resource Optimization: Manage 5M CHF budget for the whole department, including monthly and yearly forecasts and allocation.
- Team Leadership: Directed and mentored a diverse, high‑performing global team, including 10+ near‑shoring professionals across three countries, fostering collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
- Infrastructure Modernization: Transitioned the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to a GitOps model, streamlining operations and enhancing the reliability of infrastructure supporting 80K+ customers
- Quality Culture Advocate: Championed the introduction of Shift‑Left testing principles, empowering the Quality Assurance team and coaching 5+ development teams to adopt a proactive quality‑first mindset.
- Architecting for Growth: Built and led the Architecture Team from scratch, establishing a clear vision for long‑term platform sustainability and creating a foundation for scalable growth.
- Optimization: Collaboratively modernized and optimized the platform stack, reducing recurring operational costs by 10% while maintaining high performance and reliability
- Comprehensive Leadership: Directed a 12‑member development team comprising specialists from junior to senior levels, fostering growth, innovation, and technical excellence.
- Product Ownership: Served as Scrum Product Owner for the company’s flagship product, generating 60%* of total revenue and driving its functional and architectural roadmap
- Stakeholder Management & Fundraising: Successfully managed relationships with internal and external stakeholders to secure 5 MCHF in funding, supporting strategic initiatives.
- Team Development & Performance Management: Instituted a structured feedback process, conducting regular performance evaluations and salary reviews to enhance employee satisfaction and productivity.
- Cloud Transformation: Migrated on‑site services to AWS Cloud, achieving a 20% reduction in development costs by December 2021 while enhancing scalability and reliability.
- Efficiency Improvement: Designed and implemented automation tools, boosting team productivity by 15% over two years and streamlining operational workflows.
- Platform Development: Designed a business workflow orchestration platform from the ground up, leveraging a React / .NET Core / Java / MySQL stack, ensuring robust functionality and scalability.
- Infrastructure Innovation: Implemented a Docker‑based microservice infrastructure, reducing system downtime by 50% in the first year and enhancing overall operational reliability.
- Customer Relationship: Maintained Customer relationships, including Change Requests negotiations
- People Growth: Mentored the Junior Team members, growing 3 software developers
- Integration Development: Developed real‑time platform integrations and RESTful APIs using C#/.NET Framework, adhering to RAML and Swagger standards for seamless system interoperability
- Continuous Deployment: Implemented CI/CD infrastructure based on GitLab and Jenkins
- Optical Fibre Solutions Development: Designed and implemented provisioning solutions for optical fibre networks, streamlining deployment processes for enhanced operational efficiency.
- System Integration: Developed robust integration modules using C# and .NET Framework, enabling seamless interaction between critical systems.
- Version Control Optimization: Implemented a structured GIT deployment workflow, achieving a 30% improvement in code conflict management within the first six months, boosting team productivity.
Projects
Pendli
Live public-transport departure countdowns for the stops you commute from — on iOS (Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island) and Android (Live Update notification).
- Live countdowns with real delays: a self-ticking countdown to each departure, updated by push every ~30 seconds.
- Starts on its own: geofencing detects when you’re near your stop during your active hours — on-device, location never leaves the phone.
- Works everywhere: official Swiss timetable data, worldwide coverage via Transitous. EN / IT / DE / FR.
Squelch
A lightweight macOS menu-bar app that mutes the system microphone instantly — via global hotkey, menu click, or AirPods Pro / Max stem-press.
- AirPods stem-press to mute: works in any call, in any app — Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime.
- Zero audio capture: Squelch never opens a microphone session, so AirPods stay in high-quality AAC mode instead of dropping to the lossy HFP profile.
- Menu-bar native: clear muted/unmuted icon, optional Funk/Glass cues, launch-at-login.
TI Naturalizzo
TI Naturalizzo helps applicants prepare for the Canton Ticino naturalisation civics exam.
AI-generated practice quizzes cover the four exam subjects (civics, history, geography, socioeconomics), with instant explanations on every question and an exam simulator that mirrors the real 44-question format.
Available in IT, DE, FR and EN, with one-time CHF credit purchases via Stripe.
Website
InNotes
Transform LinkedIn into your personal CRM.
- Private Notes: Take notes on any LinkedIn profile, visible only to you.
- Lead Status: Assign a lead status to each contact (e.g., ‘New,’ ‘Contacted,’ ‘Qualified’).
- Tags: Add tags for easy categorization and filtering.
- Quick Search: Easily search through your notes to find the right contact.
Visit the website to know more!
WebsiteOrango AI
Orango AI is revolutionizing user interactions with software by embedding advanced AI agents into products. Our in-product AI agents can autonomously guide users, perform tasks, and streamline complex workflows, reducing friction during onboarding, support, or general usage.
With a single line of code, companies can integrate Orango AI’s smart, trainable agents into their software. These agents explore and learn the product autonomously, acting as expert assistants that improve user experience and reduce churn. Orango empowers businesses to offer intuitive, automated, and efficient customer experiences without the high cost or complexity of developing AI solutions in-house.
Our goal is to set the standard for intelligent, user-friendly web and software interfaces that delight users and drive customer loyalty.
Product Website
Aiones
Aiones helped companies optimise their internal processes, starting with onboarding.
The platform ran AI-led interviews with the key people in the organisation to capture how work actually happened — turning tribal knowledge into a documented process.
It then analysed that picture and actively suggested concrete changes to make the process faster, clearer, and easier to onboard new joiners into.
The product is no longer operating.
SpeedOmeter
A simple demonstration Progressive Web App (PWA) which is just providing a GPS-based speedometer. It can be installed via browser on any device. Fully written in React.
Try it!
ID Modular
ID Modular was a low-code platform for the digital identity world.
The goal: make Know Your Business / Customer (KYB / KYC) flows fast and affordable to build for the startups that need them — and just as fast to change later, in a few clicks rather than a project.
The product is no longer operating.
LemonBulls
LemonBulls was a marketplace for algorithmic trading strategies — a place for traders to publish what they had built and earn from it, and for followers to subscribe to strategies that matched their risk and goals.
The platform handled the parts that make that hard in practice: protecting strategy IP, running subscription billing, and linking strategies to broker accounts.
The product is no longer operating.
Naviigo
Naviigo was the sharing economy applied to short-term boat rental — a marketplace for owners to rent out their boats by the hour or day, and for travellers to find one near a lake or coast they were visiting.
Native iOS and Android apps for both sides of the marketplace, with in-app availability, booking, and payments.
The product is no longer operating.
Godoo
No-Code business workflow orchestration engine. Made from scratch. The right way.
The platform targets B2B customers, allowing them to easily define their business flows using simple drag-and-drop with a standard BPMN language.
Technically speaking, the solution included the design of multiple Java-based backends, resulting in a set of docker microservices, which could be run on any Kubernetes cluster. As a second step, the entire infrastructure has been made cloud ready and moved to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
A Web 2.0 client, together with a dedicated Android/iOS mobile app were developed allowing seamless access on any device.
Hobbies
I enjoy travelling around the world, discovering new places and creating unforgettable memories.
Since 2004 I enjoy riding a Suzuki SV 650. Initially yellow painted, currently blue dressed. 72CV of pure joy.
Since 2013 I am enabled with an unlimited range license and I love to spend time sailing.
This is my favorite winter sport. I love the white snowy landscape.
Whether Merlot or Chardonnay, champenoise or charmat, passito or fortified, young or aged, every wine is a new experience. All to be enjoyed.
Honestly, who does not enjoy a nice barbecue with friends?