About me

Manuel Leone

I grew up among paper, pencils and my father’s rigorous old-school engineering, and I combined a passion for drawing and design with my studies in Management Engineering, where I studied complex systems, processes and automation.

The web brought both interests together for me: design, interfaces, flows, clean code and open standards.

Today I work as a Product Engineer on management software. I use AI to help me design, develop and automate parts of the work.

I’m a partner at ESB Link, where the Superbonus case-management platform was born, followed by Tokebì, the marketplace for trading tax credits. Together with my partners I also created The Mush! Company, where I build the software we use to manage orders.

My story

1. 2024–today
   Vibe coding & micro-apps

   With help from AI, I also enjoy building small apps to solve everyday problems.

2. 2021–today
   Partner at The Mush! Company

   I'm a co-founder of The Mush! Company. As operating partner, I write and maintain the internal back-office and the system that routes and processes our orders.

3. 2020–today
   Partner at ESB Link

   Together with my partners we designed and built the multi-tenant platform for managing Superbonus cases. That experience also gave birth to Tokebì, our marketplace for trading tax credits.

4. 2014–today
   Independent developer

   I work as an independent consultant in L'Aquila, building websites, web apps and integrations. I specialized in modern PHP frameworks, and in my free time I write on my tech blog.

5. 2007–2013
   Full Stack Developer · Mister Wolf S.r.l.

   Six years of intense training in an agency. I wrote backend and frontend code, managed CMSs and learned to optimize projects for accessibility and search engines.

6. 2002–2005
   Freelance Web Designer

   My very first steps: I built static and dynamic websites, drew layouts, made animations and experimented with web marketing, while starting my studies in Management Engineering.