Andrea Scarpello

FutureBrand · Remote, Brazil

Global branding agency. De facto technical lead of the digital team's front-end work, mostly corporate sites for banks, holdings and fintechs with strict security and compliance requirements.

• Architect and build scalable applications with Next.js (App and Pages Router), TypeScript and Strapi v4 and v5 as headless CMS.
• Technical owner of the front-end of Itaúsa (2025), the holding behind Banco Itaú; also Banco Pine, Matera, Voke, RGS Partners, FutureBrand ESG, Metaforma, Timelens and LAPI.
• Lighthouse above 90 in Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO on Banco Pine and FutureBrand ESG; 100 in SEO on Matera, Voke and RGS Partners.
• Set coding standards, review code and mentor interns and junior developers.
• Build custom web scraping and automation tools for data aggregation.
• Upgrade and maintain legacy headless WordPress projects and older Next.js codebases.

Cora Creative Food Agency · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Co-founded a creative studio for food brands during the pandemic and grew it to a team of four on almost no capital.

• Created the agency's own brand, identity and website, and led creative direction across photography, branding and digital.
• Designed the Madame Merlot brand identity, which grew to tens of thousands of Instagram followers on that identity.
• Delivered branding, sites and content for Aruba Natural, Espírito do Chá, Gusto Italia, RayPay and a project with Zeca Camargo for the state of Piauí.
• Managed a team of three (photographer and art director, copywriter, intern) and all technical delivery, from WordPress themes to custom builds.

Fondazione Rousseau · Milan, Italy

Online voting and participation platform of a national political movement (Vue.js, Java, Keycloak, AWS). Recruited and interviewed by the platform's engineering lead, a former Facebook back-end engineer based in Silicon Valley.

• Published the certified result of a nationwide vote during the 2019 Italian government crisis: when national media traffic took the site down, replaced the homepage with a static results page (shown on every Italian TV news channel) and got the result out while the country waited.
• Pushed for a minimal design system and a Nuxt-based architecture across a three-developer front-end team.

Develon Group · Milan, Italy

• Developed API-driven front-ends with Vue.js and Nuxt.js for RE/MAX Italy, Echo and Elite.
• Improved site performance and user experience through optimized code and efficient data handling.

Artefice Group, OSA05 · Milan, Italy

Eight years in a large digital agency, from campaign sites for consumer brands to AI products, chatbots and UX research.

• Built the first Norton Mobile Security for Android site (jQuery Mobile), and campaign and corporate sites for Perugina, AirWick, SignorVino (Calzedonia), Coca-Cola, Raspini and Solsonica on WordPress and Drupal.
• Front-end and part of the back-end of Il Quotidiano in Classe, a WordPress portal for three national newspapers (Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, QN), and a migration plugin for Corriere's Il Club della Lettura.
• On loan to Assist SPA for the Vodafone Italy redesign: high-fidelity navigable prototypes used in eye-tracking usability labs with real users.
• SynuOSA (2015 to 2016), joint venture with Synthema, an IBM research spin-off in NLP: built the social media crawler and ingestion API feeding their semantic sentiment engine, and the first Vue.js dashboards (with d3.js) for the product later deployed on-premise at Telecom Italia.
• Nationwide chatbot for CISL tobacconists (2016 to 2017) on Google Dialogflow: designed intents and answers, built the custom front-end with deep links into the regulation and prize carousels.
• Digital Brochure (2017): a Vue.js prototype of modular, voice-controlled sales presentations using the Google speech-to-text SDK.

Buongiorno SPA · Milan, Italy

• Visual design and layouts for the Winga online entertainment portals (Winga TV, Poker, Bingo) and their Flash mini-games.

Freelance · Italy

• Built and maintained custom sites for restaurants, B&Bs and food businesses, end to end: proposal, design, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP, hosting and support.