Federico Ercole

About Me

I am a senior software and product engineer based in Vienna, Austria. Ten years of full-stack engineering on systems carrying real production traffic, at ImmobilienScout24 and at Hero Journey Club, and as the technical lead who built the cloud infrastructure for a string of European startups.

I work across the frontend, the backend and the cloud with the same depth in each. Real-time AI voice pipelines, agents that do real work, hybrid search, Progressive Web Apps, event-driven systems and serverless architecture on AWS. I design the architecture, write the code and own the result in production.

I am a product engineer as well as a software engineer. I decide what gets built, what gets cut and what ships first, a habit built leading early-stage startups where the specification does not exist yet. xcore.gg, Picks & Bans and Sursk.it are my own products, each taken from an idea and a domain name to a live platform with real users.

I am at my best around other builders. I mentor developers on system design, cloud architecture and AI-native workflows. At hackathons I bring the team spirit that makes a group click, and the prizes that come with it. I also run the digital presence of a cultural association in Northern Italy. I work in English, German and Italian.