Lucio Patone

Fractional CTO · Solution Architect

Digitizing a company, one process at a time.

I am an independent solution architect and fractional CTO: I build companies' digital backbone, systems, applied artificial intelligence, field tools, and grow the people who keep it alive.

Without big top-down projects: you start from a real operational problem, solve it, and every solution becomes the building block of the next one. It works in the office and on the shop floor alike.

Lucio Patone

The method

Start from a concrete problem

A schedule that never adds up, an archive overflowing, a regulatory deadline approaching. The first step is always operational, and that is why the people who use it every day actually adopt it.

Every solution is a building block

What solves one process becomes the foundation of the next. That is how separate tools grew into a single platform, without ever stopping the company.

Software stays alive only if someone owns it

That is why the work includes growing people: trained developers, a modern way of working, and the autonomy that remains when the consultant is gone.

What I work on

Architecture and integration
Making systems talk to each other: the legacy ERP, the cloud, external services. Without throwing away what works.
Applied artificial intelligence
Documents that read and file themselves, assistants that answer questions on company data, agents that run processes, in daily production use.
The industrial frontier
Computer vision on plants, robotics, sensors and telemetry on vehicles and equipment: digital that enters the shop floor, not just the office.
Field tools
Apps for people who work off-site: scanning, signatures, offline-first. Designed for real conditions in the yard.
Compliance built into software
Traceability and regulatory duties built into digital processes (industry regulations, NIS2), with no manual chasing.
People and method
Development teams built and trained, a modern AI-assisted way of working, autonomy that stays in the company.

Today

As an independent professional, I am currently fractional CTO of DIFE S.p.A., an Italian environmental services company with a hundred employees, where I lead a five-person development team and the digitalization of the entire operation: management platform, field apps, AI in production, logistics and compliance. In parallel, I work on projects and consulting engagements for other organisations.

in production · one platform, about 1,000 people using it every day, five developers maintaining it

How we can work together

Focused consulting
A specific problem, an assessment, training for your team: a fixed-scope engagement with a result you can judge.
Projects
One process to digitize, from idea to production, down to the people who will use it every day.
Ongoing technical leadership
Fractional CTO: steering the company's digital course, from choices to vendors, from team to priorities, without the cost of a full-time executive.

If your company still runs on paper, chasing, and spreadsheets nobody loves, let's talk.

A first conversation costs nothing and clarifies a lot: you tell me how you work, I tell you what I would automate first.

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