Hi, I'm Riccardo —

I build things with the cloud.

A technology enthusiast from Florence, Italy, turning ideas into products and solutions that help people and businesses do more.

About

A bit about me

My story with technology started in front of a Commodore 64, typing listings from magazines just to see what would happen. That curiosity never really left — it just moved on to bigger machines, networks, and eventually the cloud.

Over the years I've worked across web, mobile, cloud, AI, and IoT, always with the same goal: turning ideas into things that actually run and help someone do something better. I'm happiest when a hard problem meets a clean solution.

I live in Florence, Italy, with my family. When I'm not in front of a keyboard, I'm usually tinkering with hardware, exploring something new, or arguing about football.

What I do

Build · Share · Tinker

  • Build

    Cloud-native solutions and AI-powered apps — from pro-code with SDKs and APIs to no-code and low-code on Copilot Studio and Power Platform.

  • Share

    Talks, workshops, and community events about cloud and AI — across both developer-first and citizen-developer tools.

  • Tinker

    IoT, microcontrollers, AI agents, and weekend experiments that probably shouldn't work, but do.

Projects

A few things I've built

A small, curated selection. More on GitHub.

Pipelines Explorer

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A web app to explore, search, and visualize Azure DevOps pipelines across projects, making CI/CD landscapes easier to navigate.

  • Azure DevOps
  • DevOps
  • Web

See4Me

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An accessibility app that helps visually impaired people understand the world around them by describing photos with AI vision.

  • AI
  • Accessibility
  • Cognitive Services

CustomVisionPoC

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A proof of concept showing how to train and consume custom image classification models with Azure Custom Vision.

  • AI
  • Azure
  • Computer Vision

IoT-JukeBox

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A connected jukebox built with Raspberry Pi and Azure IoT, blending hardware tinkering with cloud services.

  • IoT
  • Azure
  • Raspberry Pi

Speaking & Community

On stage, when there's something worth saying

I enjoy speaking at technical conferences and community events about the things I'm actively building with — cloud platforms, AI, and the occasional IoT experiment. Recent and recurring stages include WPC Italy (2017–2025), dotNETConf, and Azure Day Rome.

Former Microsoft MVP (Azure, 2017–2022) · Intel Software Innovator

For the full, up-to-date list of talks see github.com/rcappello/rcappello.

Elsewhere

Find me online

The best way to reach me is through one of these: