ELEVATION +50 — THE TRAIL

From bookkeeping
to code.

I chose to build a cross-disciplinary profile instead of specialising early. Over these years I moved from economics to digital marketing to software development, alternating study and work: each step added skills I now use all together. Here's the full path — education, experience and certifications — in chronological order.

5 ROLES 3 STUDY PATHS 2 CERTIFICATIONS SINCE 2017

THE CLIMB — TURN AFTER TURN

  1. 2017 — 2022 EDUCATION

    Diploma in Business Administration, Finance & Marketing

    J.F. Kennedy Institute · Monselice · grade 75/100

    Five years of economics and law fundamentals: accounting, financial statements, cost analysis, law, economics, two foreign languages and management IT. I learned to read a company's numbers — where margin is made and where it's lost — a way of reading I still bring into every marketing project.

  2. 2021 WORK

    Internship at a notary office

    Studio Notaio Ponzi · Monselice

    A six-month curricular internship at a notary office: handling paperwork and documents, filing, deadlines. My first real professional environment, where precision and order are not a nicety but a requirement.

  3. 2022 — 2024 EDUCATION

    ITS in Digital Marketing & Innovation

    ITS Mario Volpato Academy · Vigonza · grade 96/100

    Two years of intensive technical training in digital, finished at 96/100: data analysis, SEO and SEM, social media strategy, marketing automation, growth hacking, design thinking and customer journey. This is when I started working on real data and campaigns, and when marketing became my profession rather than just an interest.

    • Data analysis
    • SEO/SEM
    • Automation
  4. 2023 WORK

    Front-end WordPress developer & Marketing Specialist

    Internetimage · Conselve

    Front-end development and marketing at a web agency. I built and maintained WordPress sites for SMBs and professionals: custom themes, on-page and technical SEO, plugin management, migrations, backups and security. Alongside that, conversion-oriented landing pages and Google Ads campaigns with their tracking.

    • WordPress
    • SEO
    • Google Ads
  5. 2024 WORK

    Shopify Developer

    Making Science · Vigonza

    At an international digital consultancy I worked on developing Shopify e-commerce for B2C and B2B clients: advanced theme customisation in Liquid, building bespoke features, third-party app integration, performance optimisation and tracking coordinated with the marketing team. This is where I consolidated the more technical side of my profile.

    • Shopify
    • Liquid
    • JavaScript
  6. May 2024 CERTIFICATION

    Cambridge English B2 certification

    University of Cambridge

    Official language certification issued by the University of Cambridge. The certified level is B2; in reading and listening comprehension I effectively work at C2, useful for technical documentation and international clients.

  7. 2024 — today WORK

    Performance marketer & Web master — freelance

    Monselice

    From here on I work independently. I run full-funnel Meta and Google Ads campaigns with budgets in the 10–15k euro a year range: campaign structure, segmentation, retargeting, A/B testing on creative and copy. I analyse the KPIs that matter — CPA, ROAS, CTR, CVR, CPL — and optimise continuously on the data. I handle the whole measurement stack (GA4, Meta Pixel, Tag Manager, Conversion API), landing-page CRO, CRM and automation, technical site management and reporting, always reasoning about margin and the sustainability of the acquisition cost.

    • Meta Ads
    • Google Ads
    • GA4
    • CRO
  8. 2025 WORK

    STEM instructor

    Esse Emme Multimedia · Adria

    A training assignment for an education-services company: I ran courses for primary and secondary school teachers on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, coding and robotics, digital skills and teaching methods. Preparing to explain technical topics to a non-technical audience taught me a lot about how you communicate.

    • Cybersecurity
    • AI
    • Coding
  9. 2025 — today EDUCATION

    BSc in Computer Science

    University of Padua · in progress · + Google Ads certification

    A BSc in Computer Science at the University of Padua, still ongoing: programming (Java, C++, Python), algorithms and data structures, databases and software architectures. It's the foundation my profile was missing — the technical bedrock under everything I already do with marketing and data. In the same period I earned the official Google Ads certification.

    • Java
    • C++
    • Python
    • Algorithms

BEYOND THE CV

Francesco Sguotti at a hackathon working on a project
+A HACKATHON — CODE UNDER PRESSURE
Francesco Sguotti in Vienna during a trip
+VIENNA — KEEPING MY EYES OPEN

ELEVATION −200 — BASE CAMP

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