Friland - Monitoring and control system for off-grid tiny houses
Custom electronics, ESP32 firmware, inverter integration over Modbus TCP, 4G telemetry to an IoT platform. Six years in production.
Manuele Pola
I build data-intensive infrastructure and systems,
from the field sensor to the processed insight.
CTO @ Visup · Independent B2B engineer · Friuli, Italy
What I do
End-to-end systems
From the PCB to the firmware, from backend to cloud. Full-stack ownership in one set of hands.
Data-intensive workloads
High-cadence pipelines, event-driven architectures, observability as a structured practice.
IoT and Industry 4.0
Off-grid, energy communities, PLC integration, field protocols. Systems that stay up for years.
Applied AI
Integrating and orchestrating LLMs and ML models for real enterprise scenarios. No buzzwords.
Selected work
Volo Libero Friuli - Payment and membership management system
Crypto-protected NFC cards, offline-first Android app, custom hardware for automated showers, end-to-end membership and service management.
Volo Libero Friuli - Shuttle booking system
Telegram bot + driver web app, plugged into a paragliding community's existing workflows. 13,000+ passengers and 2,000+ rides in 4 years, zero unplanned downtime.
Selectively taking on B2B engagements in IoT, energy, Industry 4.0 and data-intensive systems.