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Lorenzo Cesana

Principal AI Engineer @ Nokia

A full-stack engineer with a product mind — building impactful, beautiful, AI-native software.

Portrait of Lorenzo Cesana

whoami

Full-stack developer with a strong product mindset. I love building impactful solutions that prioritize user and business value. Years as a startup founder sharpened my problem-solving — autonomy, agency, open communication, and meticulous code reviews. I design and maintain scalable, resilient applications with the latest tools, lead projects, and love sharing learnings that keep a team sharp and forward-looking.

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Bologna, Italy

Full-stack developer with a strong product mindset. I love building impactful solutions that prioritize user and business value. Years as a startup founder sharpened my problem-solving — autonomy, agency, open communication, and meticulous code reviews. I design and maintain scalable, resilient applications with the latest tools, lead projects, and love sharing learnings that keep a team sharp and forward-looking.

By the numbers

1000 ×
compute reduction

Re-architected real-time + historical IoT statistics at Tanaza, cutting the computational power of the previous solution by three orders of magnitude.

500 k+/min
events ingested

Designed a pipeline ingesting over half a million IoT device events every minute, in real time and at scale.

13 yrs
shipping software

From native mobile & AR in 2012 to principal-level AI engineering today — a full arc across the modern web.

Mensa
high-IQ society

Admitted in 2012 — top ~2% measured IQ.

01 Sep 2025 — Present

Principal AI Engineer at Nokia

Building AI that understands networks.

Impact

Building an AI analyzer that pinpoints Wi-Fi faults engineers used to chase for hours.

  • Developing an AI network analyzer that helps engineers troubleshoot Wi-Fi issues.
AILLMsNetworking
02 Sep 2023 — Aug 2025

Senior Product Engineer at Amie

Product engineering with a sharp UX/UI focus.

Impact

Shipped an agentic AI assistant and carried the platform through its public launch.

  • Built a PWA (React/TS + Node.js) with a strong focus on UX/UI.
  • Built a memory-efficient, client-side full-text search over a large dataset.
  • Built an agentic AI chat that searches a user's knowledge — meeting recordings, calendar, todos — and runs actions on their behalf.
  • Handled the public launch of the platform and addressed peak-load issues.
ReactTypeScriptNode.jsAI AgentsRAGPWA
03 Oct 2017 — Aug 2023

Senior Full-stack Developer at Tanaza

Cloud Wi-Fi management at large scale.

Impact

Cut analytics compute by 1000× while ingesting 500k+ device events every minute.

  • Built and optimized a microservices platform (React/TS + Node.js) for large-scale Wi-Fi network management.
  • Led a system for historical and real-time IoT statistics ingesting 500k+ events/minute — reducing the compute of the previous solution by 1000×.
  • Created an Electron desktop utility for access-point firmware flashing.
  • Tutored 2 junior developers.
ReactTypeScriptNode.jsMicroservicesIoTElectron

Earlier chapters

  1. Dec 2016 — Sep 2017 Full-stack Developer at FabbricaDigitale Shipped a Polymer + Go microservices PWA that turned raw data into live charts.
  2. Mar 2016 — Nov 2016 Full-stack Developer at EarlyNinja Built the storefront that let indie studios sell their games in early access.
  3. Dec 2015 — Feb 2016 Mobile Developer at Pro Web Consulting Delivered a cross-platform iOS/Android app and the Laravel API behind it.
  4. Jul 2013 — Jan 2016 CTO & co-Founder at Pitch&Drink Founded a monthly event connecting start-ups, investors, and journalists.
  5. Jun 2013 — Nov 2015 CTO & co-Founder at Tasteet! Co-founded and raised a first round for a cloud menu builder for restaurants.
  6. Feb 2013 — Apr 2014 Full-stack Developer at Arca24.com Built a job marketplace connecting candidates with hiring companies.
  7. Nov 2012 — Jan 2013 Mobile Developer at Gesp Shipped a native Android augmented-reality app — back in 2012.

The toolkit

Frontend

React · Svelte · TypeScript · TailwindCSS · Styled-components · MobX · Redux · Remotion · Webpack · WebSocket · Electron

Backend

Node.js · Express · GraphQL · Go

Cloud / DevOps

AWS · Docker · Nginx · Vercel · DigitalOcean · CI/CD · Datadog · Cloudflare

Databases

PostgreSQL · TimescaleDB · MongoDB · Redis · SQLite

AI

LLMs · RAG · Embeddings · Agent harnessing · Claudemaxxing