Summary
Marco Santonocito is a founder and product-tech leader with 12 years of experience building AI-native digital products and scaling platform businesses across Europe and Silicon Valley. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering roots with strategic product and technology leadership, having founded multiple startups (including an edtech platform acquired by Testbusters) and served as CPTO at Testbusters and CTO at Vitesy. Marco co-founded Talent Garden Pordenone to foster a local digital ecosystem after returning from Silicon Valley, and he continues to shape product-led organizations and portfolios from Oregon while maintaining ties to Italy. He mentors and teaches product management and innovation, translating classroom frameworks into operational ProductOps transformations. Notably, his background spans hardware-software integration, marketplace growth to 100k+ users, and a pattern of turning early-stage ideas into acquisition-ready products.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Start-up Boot Camp, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Start-up Boot Camp, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Politecnico di Milano
Tecnologie Web e Multimediali, Information Technology, Tecnologie Web e Multimediali, Information Technology at Università degli Studi di Udine
Italian, English