I am a management engineer, teacher, and product builder. I am currently developing BackPic and AUDE, using project management, software, and AI agents to turn ambitious ideas into real products. This site is where I share my work, my path, and the interests that shape how I think.
Email: lorenzomontarese@gmail.com
Linkedin: open profile
BackPic website: backpic.app
AUDE website: aude.im
Lorenzo_Montarese_CV_2026_web.pdfTesi magistrale ENG Lorenzo Montarese Pc Version.pdfTesi magistrale ITA Lorenzo Montarese Pc Version.pdfFrom the age of eleven to eighteen, I practiced competitive whitewater kayaking with the Italian Navy's youth team. In my final season, I took part in the European Junior Championships in Serbia. I later studied Management Engineering at the University of Parma, specializing in finance, and completed my master's degree in the 2021–2022 academic year with a grade of 104/110 and an average of 27/30. Alongside university, I worked ten summer seasons as a lifeguard. Those years gave me repeated responsibility for people's safety and put me in contact with people of very different ages, backgrounds, and views.
I started learning software because I wanted to build a company, not because programming was originally my profession. I began with Java and Android, then studied software engineering, startups, and corporate finance. University projects gave me opportunities to build small tools in Java, VBA, and Microsoft Access. BackPic gradually became the long-term project through which I learned product design, scope, requirements, and delivery. Before implementing it, I mapped roughly 230 screens as a visual prototype: they were design artifacts, not 230 working screens.
In 2023, I began teaching logistics at ITIS Leonardo da Vinci. Teaching made me more interested in how people understand difficult ideas and gave me a new context in which to practice planning, communication, and responsibility. Outside the classroom, I learned Flutter and began turning parts of BackPic into a real cross-platform product.
From 2025 onward, AI coding agents changed the scale of what I could attempt. To keep the work understandable and verifiable, I built Compass, a custom VS Code extension, and a workflow for managing sources, decisions, prompts, tasks, tests, and agent sessions. The agents increase my production capacity; product direction, review, and responsibility remain mine.
AUDE began in 2026 as a smaller and more focused version of an overly ambitious experiment with AI-generated interactive video. Today I am developing BackPic and AUDE, improving the system I use to manage them, and looking for situations in which the same project, product, and training skills can be useful to others.
How I moved from early startup attempts to BackPic, AUDE, and a controlled workflow for AI-assisted product development — and what I can apply to other projects.
University, my master's thesis, and selected independent study in software, products, finance, and project management.
Sports, adventures, technology, science, history, books, cinema, interviews, YouTube channels.
A knowledge game built around the choice to attempt, learn, and then answer.
A private photo diary and an evolving personal-memory product.
I have always enjoyed building and repairing physical things as much as software. At sixteen, I built a small stilt house in the garden. Later, I learned basic 3D design to plan furniture and other objects. In 2024, I bought a 1990 Iveco Daily camper and rebuilt much of its mechanical system, learning through manuals, mistakes, and repeated tests. I also enjoy photography, video editing, skiing, mountain biking, and spending time on or near the water.