Lorenzo Cella

Hey, I'm Lorenzo

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
with production AI experience

Zurich, Switzerland

About Me

I'm a software engineer with a passion for building products.

After founding and running my own startup Bolt Motion from 2015-2020, I've worked at companies like u-blox and Livingdocs.

Currently building PizzaGPT, a ChatGPT alternative for Italian users that served 500k+ users in the last 12 months.

Senior Full-Stack Software Developer

JS, Vue, React, Nuxt, Next, Python

Startup Founder

5 years leading Bolt Motion

Travel Enthusiast

Asia explorer, VW van owner

Key Projects

Production applications showcasing AI integration, scalability, and full-stack development

PizzaGPT
AI Production AppLive - 40k+ Daily Users

PizzaGPT

Production LLM application serving 40k+ daily users. Built with OpenAI API integration, custom prompt engineering, cost optimization, and safety guardrails. Handles millions of requests with high availability.

OpenAI APINuxtSupabaseProduction ScaleCost Optimization
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Bolt Electric Skateboard
Hardware + Software2015-2020

Bolt Motion (Founder & CEO)

Founded and scaled a hardware startup from idea to global market. Full-stack development, production management, and business operations.

HardwareE-commerceLeadership
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Resendly
SaaS PlatformActive

Resendly

Full-stack SaaS platform for automated email campaigns. Built with modern web technologies and integrated payment processing.

NuxtSupabaseStripe
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Work Experience

PizzaGPT

Side ProjectActive
2023 - Present
  • Built a ChatGPT alternative serving up to 40k requests daily
  • Tech stack: Nuxt (Vue, JS), Supabase, Tailwind, LLM API

Livingdocs AG

Software Engineer
2022 - 2024
  • Responsible for technical solutions at multiple customers
  • Feature development, documentation, release testing, bug fixing
  • Development of internal tooling app with Nuxt
  • Created an OpenAPI spec for API documentation and testing

u-blox AG

Production Test Engineer
2019 - 2022
  • Production test support and test development of GPS modules
  • Developed an Electron app to control motors using low level interface SPI (C++)
  • GNSS simulation and RF instrument (VISA)

Autoneum Management AG

Software Engineer Intern
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
  • Responsible for development of an acoustic simulation software
  • Implementation of new features and bug fixing
  • Computer Vision project with OpenCV in Python for material strain test evaluation
  • Performance improvement and optimization of legacy codebase

Bolt Motion SRL

Startup Founder & CEOClosed
2015 - 2020
  • Created the most portable electric skateboard in the world
  • Raised funding via Crowdfunding Campaign & Angel Investing
  • End-to-end product development: idea to market

Tech Stack

Favorite Stack

JavaScriptVueNuxtSupabaseTailwind

Technologies I have worked with

PythonReactTypeScriptPostgreSQLGitStripeNext.jsiOSSwitfLLMOpenAPI

Languages

🇮🇹
Italian
Native
🇬🇧
English
Professional
🇪🇸
Spanish
Fluent
🇩🇪
German
Basic

Education

Automation and Control Engineering

Bachelor Degree, Politechnic of Milan

2014 - 2018

Erasmus Exchange 🇪🇸

Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain

Engineering and Spanish

Let's Connect

I'm always open to discussing new opportunities, interesting projects, or just having a chat about technology and travel.