Enrico Icardi

Hi! I'm Enrico.

What drives me is the hope of making a positive difference through what I build and contribute to.

Since 2006, I’ve been building digital products and helping teams bring them to life. At welance, I work across engineering, product and, increasingly, babysitting AI agents.

My work and interests span AI, rural development and making physical things, with or without electronics. Through welance and other organisations, I build and support projects in Italy, Germany and beyond.

I live in the woods of Alta Langa, where my partner and I are making Doi Fagnán a place for curious people from around the world to meet, spend time together and live closer to nature, with a little less impact on the environment.

Built at welance

Other initiatives I support

A few things along the way

I co-founded ShareDesk, now Optix, where I remain a shareholder. That journey introduced me to welance, then a coworking space.

Along the way, I’ve co-founded other businesses — including one wooden — worked on Bakeca.it and contributed to æternity’s open-source JavaScript SDK. I still enjoy helping first-time founders get unstuck.

I’m also helping allsafe rethink its software engineering and processes.

More in my career story or the detailed CV.

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