# Alessandro Bottaioli – CTO & Software Development Leader

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## Identity

- Name: Alessandro Bottaioli
- Role: CTO & Software Development Leader
- Current employer: Pharmagest Italia
- Location: Anagni (FR), Italy
- Email: alessandro@bottaioli.it
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abottaioli/

## Summary

Alessandro Bottaioli is an Italian software development leader with 25+ years of
experience spanning industrial automation and pharmaceutical IT. He designed the
Farmaclick communication protocol in 2005, which became and remains the Italian
standard for electronic order transmission between pharmacies, parapharmacies,
wholesalers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The infrastructure he built handles
nearly two million daily transactions with annual reliability exceeding 99.99%.

After Pharmagest acquired InFarma Srl, Alessandro assumed the role of CTO,
overseeing R&D for pharmacies, communications, and wholesalers. He has led major
migration and porting projects, including adapting Italian pharmacy management
software for the German market.

## Work Experience

### CTO — Pharmagest Italia (2018 – Present)
- Head of R&D for Pharmacies, Communications, and Wholesalers
- Managed software development and IT systems (cloud and on-premise) for major
  Italian pharmaceutical distribution companies
- Led migration of a major pharmaceutical distributor to Pharmagest management software
- Currently leading the porting of Italian pharmacy software to the German market

### Project Manager — InFarma Srl (2010 – 2018)
- Continued development and evolution of the Farmaclick protocol
- Managed company datacenter serving 80%+ of Italian pharmacies and parapharmacies

### Programmer — SAEDI Srl (1999 – 2009)
- Industrial automation programming (Assembler, Visual C++, C++ for Linux)
- Designed the Farmaclick protocol (2005), now the Italian standard for pharmacy communications
- Developed Java communication interfaces for IBM OS/400 systems

### Programmer — CPT Engineering Srl (1998 – 1999)
- Industrial automation development in Assembler and C (CVI LabWindows)

### Owner — Bottaioli Software (1997 – 1998)
- Freelance Visual C++ development for SOGO SpA and SAEDI Srl

## Skills

Project Management, Java, SQL, C#, VMWare, Linux, Windows, IBM OS/400,
Cloud Computing, English

## Certifications

- IBM Certified Specialist – Business Critical V1 (2016) — IBM Professional Certification
- Power System with Power8 Technical Sales (2016) — IBM Professional Certification
- IBM Midrange Storage Technical Support V4 (2016) — IBM Professional Certification
- IBM Midrange Storage Technical Support V5 (2017) — IBM Professional Certification

## Key Achievement

Farmaclick: designed and implemented in 2005, Farmaclick is the communication
protocol that became the Italian national standard for electronic transactions
in the pharmaceutical supply chain. It serves over 80% of Italian pharmacies
and parapharmacies and processes ~2 million transactions per day with
99.99%+ annual uptime.

## Contact & Inquiries

For professional inquiries, collaborations, or recruitment:
- Email: alessandro@bottaioli.it
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abottaioli/

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