Briefly
My name is Andrea Margiovanni. I work as Product & Technology Strategist at Oltrematica, where I lead a small team that builds unflashy but genuinely useful things. Before this role, I spent fifteen years across software development, IT consulting and technical leadership — corporate, startup, client portfolio.
I’ve been writing publicly for several years. Most of my essays start from a question I can’t get out of my head; I publish them when the question has found a shape that holds up for at least a couple of days.
What I write about
My essays move around six connected themes — described in my own words in colophon:
- AI and society — not the “isn’t it amazing” angle, but AI as a political fact: who builds it, who controls it, who pays for the externalities.
- European digital sovereignty — architecture of the cloud, dependencies, who keeps their hand on the kill-switch.
- Compliance as architecture — CRA, AI Act, PLD, NIS2, EAA. European software in 2026–2027 won’t “check” compliance at the end of a project. I wrote a compendium: European software compliance 2026 →.
- The craft of software — things I’ve stopped doing, things I’ve learned to delegate, things I only got right after fifteen years.
- Advisory and IT services — the structural blind spot of traditional sourcing advisory, the end of time & materials.
- Applied tech culture — sometimes a supermarket parking lot at 18:30 tells you more than a white paper.
The full archive is by date and by theme (filters on the archive page).
How I speak in public
I give talks, moderate panels, run internal workshops and short keynote sessions mostly on AI governance, compliance as architecture, technology product strategy, and careers in IT services. Formats that work best with me:
- 20–40 min keynote — single theme, argued, with published references (not generic slides).
- 2–4 hour workshop — small group, concrete output by the end.
- Panel / interview — better if it’s not a promotional interview.
- Podcast — generous time, dense themes.
I don’t do pre-recorded webinars, motivational speeches, or sponsored talks disguised as neutral ones.
How to reach me
- Email — hello@margiovanni.it is the most reliable channel. I reply within a few business days.
- LinkedIn — /in/margio for professional conversations.
- Bluesky — @andrea.margiovanni.it for relaxed public conversations.
- GitHub — @amargiovanni for the code.
Other pages
- All essays — the full archive.
- Colophon — editorial voice, stack, conventions.
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