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Manuel Persico — Software & Applied AI Engineer · CTO at Inoke · Lifelong tinkerer. Windows, Linux, Android. Software architecture, applied AI and systems. Interests: AI, tinkering, hardware and science fiction. Isaac Asimov and Pekka Himanen’s hacker ethic.

inoke.studio   /   LinkedIn

I like understanding what happens underneath — then making something useful out of it.

A little background

It started with a Commodore 64. At 11, I wrote my first program: a Space Invaders-style game in BASIC.

At 18, my high-school thesis explored neural networks: an application that learned to count, OCR, image recognition and backpropagation algorithms, with a neural-network visualization built in Visual Basic. AI has been an interest since those early experiments.

That curiosity became a career spanning 20+ years in software engineering, systems administration and technical leadership. I've been CTO at Inoke since 2016, moving between architecture, implementation, integration and production operations.

I enjoy Isaac Asimov and identify with Pekka Himanen's hacker ethic. Curiosity, meaningful work and sharing knowledge matter to me. I've also taught e-commerce and mentored young people in vocational IT training.

Selected professional work

01 / AI meets cultural heritage

  • GrazIA · ISRE / Museo Deledda — Conversational assistant about Grazia Deledda. Knowledge preparation and integration with a museum digital installation.
  • Sisaia · Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Nuoro — Conversational archaeology: technical design, knowledge-base architecture, and review of answers, chronology and sources with scientific staff.
  • e.INS · Territorial assistants — Cultural and tourism AI for Dorgali, Galtellì and Oliena, and GAL BMG — Racconti di Gusto. Includes digital libraries for Dorgali and Oliena, connecting organized documents with accessible knowledge.

02 / Ideas turned into products

  • ACCERT & QuickBooking — End-to-end responsibility, from the initial idea and architecture to implementation and CI/CD.
  • BFlows / Memento — Fintech frontend development, API integration, customer and invoicing workflows, maintenance and technical handover.
  • My Culture · 2023–June 2024 — Senior Software Engineer / CTO. Video-on-demand frontend, DevOps/SysOps, GitHub repositories, AWS Amplify and mobile delivery coordination.
  • Lìberos · 2012–2016 — Technical development of a cultural network platform with PHP, Yii, MySQL and Node.js.

03 / The foundations underneath

Before Inoke: UltraDigital founder, independent development and consulting, and Windows systems / SQL Server work at Sorint.LAB for BIt Systems, Borsa Italiana / LSEG. My background also includes public-sector information systems, web platforms, e-commerce and immersive projects.

These are professional project highlights; their source code is not necessarily public.

Technical background
ai.retrieval   Python / LlamaIndex / LangChain / OpenAI API
               FAISS / HNSWlib

app.build      JavaScript / Vue / Nuxt / Node.js
               PHP / Laravel / Java / HTML / CSS

data.store     PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQL Server
               MongoDB / SQLite

ops.ship       Git / GitHub / CI/CD / Docker / Linux
               AWS / Azure / NGINX / Apache

test.explore   Jest / Cypress / Unity / Unreal Engine
               Oculus Quest

I build conversational assistants and document knowledge systems, integrate hosted models, experiment with local models, and work with domain experts to review answers and sources. AI coding agents are part of my workflow for analysis, implementation, refactoring, documentation and testing.

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    Unofficial SignalRGB USB plugin for EPOMAKER TH80 V2 PRO with stock firmware. Per-key RGB, 78-key mapping, no firmware flashing.

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