Currently · consulting & assembling the next thing
Building quiet machines for loud ideas.
I'm Francesco, software architect and entrepreneur. In fifteen years I've designed and built software systems at every level: blockchain, AI agents, and distributed architectures on one side, enterprise solutions for companies like Lottomatica, IBM, and NATO on the other. I've led teams, mentored developers, and founded projects, learning from a few failures along the way.
Based in Napoli, I work primarily remote across Italy and Europe: consulting, product, and assembling whatever comes next.
01 / About
I build systems. Sometimes they become companies.
A short letter
I design and build systems made of code, infrastructure, contracts and trust, that turn ideas into working products. Sometimes they stay systems. Sometimes they become companies.
Some of that under Byte Me, my personal workshop for almost a decade. Some through companies I cofounded, like KMN, where I exited the cap table but remain a partner and external collaborator. Some through teams I joined for a while and helped move forward.
"I'm not interested in building another startup. I'm interested in building something that deserves to exist."
I started as an engineer and kept moving toward the entrepreneur side. Probably because I care less about software itself, and more about what software makes possible: behavior, then culture, then quietly, the future.
Now
Consulting across teams that keep me curious, while building a new product in the background. Open to conversations with people who want to build something real.
Napoli · 2026
02 / Selected Work
Eight chapters, one through-line.
2026 →
Francesco Mercogliano | IT Advisory Independent · technology advisory
Independent advisory across software architecture, tech strategy and fractional CTO for startups, scale-ups and enterprise. Distributed systems, AI agent integrations and blockchain ecosystems.
Cofounded KMN, a software development company. We deliver web systems, AI integrations and run remote engineering teams. I exited the cap table but remain a partner and external collaborator. Clients: Regione Campania, MaticMind, Shiba Inu and other Italian and international companies.
AI platformsWeb systemsRemote teamsShiba InuRegione CampaniaMaticMind
2021—24
Byte Me Freelance label · three years independent
Three years freelancing across full-stack engineering, blockchain, security and partial-CTO mandates. From enterprise platforms for Lottomatica and IBM, to blockchain companies among the global top-10 by market cap.
Theta NetworkVirtuals ProtocolLottomaticaIBM
2023
Vento CTO in Residence · tokenization of illiquid assets
Six months leading a Turin-based incubation: platform architecture, security and tokenization of illiquid assets.
Under one of the world's largest certification and engineering consultancy groups. R&D on blockchain-based digital certification: verifiable, tamper-proof and portable certificates. In parallel: onboard rail IoT for Hitachi, real-time voice analytics for Enel, backend of a military defense e-commerce platform for NATO.
Architected AlmaCult, a cultural portal for Campania with VR museum environments. Built AlmaVideo, a full-stack video streaming platform with upload, transcoding and storage.
Cultural heritageMedia streamingVR
2018—20
Endow Software Engineer · institutional clients
Institutional-grade software: scalable infrastructure for INPS, data-analysis platforms for INAIL, an IBM × Ispettorato del Lavoro labor-inspection system, geo-targeting for Jakala.
Public sectorINPSINAILIBMJakala
2015—18
Grimaldi Group IT Purser · at sea
Three years of onboard IT across European routes: networks, comms, crew training, upgrades.
NetworksInfrastructureOperations
And before all of this, earlier chapters at small companies, learning the trade through security analysis, pen-testing, databases and data viz for IoT systems. Plus a long tail of smaller engagements over the years, audits, advisory, partial-CTO tours, indie startups and founders' first lines of code, that don't fit on this page, but built me just as much.
03 / Trusted by
Names on the receipts.
Some of the names that trusted me with their systems, products, and rooms.
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