Alessandro MaciarielloCV
Status
Internship from January 2027
Studying
BSc Business Creation & Entrepreneurship, H-FARM College
Based in
Padova, Italy
Languages
Italian (native) · English (C1)

Passionate about building products and the businesses around them.

Third-year BSc student in Business Creation & Entrepreneurship at H-FARM College (University of Chichester).

Co-founder of Desmerk, a D2C home-gym equipment brand. Strategy advisor at Unitopia, a tech and innovation media page.

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01Selected work

01

Desmerk

Co-founder · D2C home-gym equipment brand

Frustrated by the home-gym equipment on the market, my brother and I started designing our own, built around the problems we kept running into in our everyday training.

  • Ran every function end to end, from product design to customer service
  • Took the first product through four versions, from rough MVP to production
  • Every production batch sold out
  • Patent application filed (pending)
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Desmerk
02

Unitopia

Strategy Advisor · Tech and innovation media

I set the content direction and formats that took the page from 6,000 to more than 200,000 followers across social platforms.

  • Grew the audience from 6,000 to 200,000+ followers
  • Repositioned the page from faceless to founder-led
  • Designed and built the previous website in Framer
  • Supported the first sponsorship deals
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Unitopia

02What I can do

Venture & Strategy

  • Market research and customer discovery
  • Problem identification
  • Competitor analysis and positioning
  • Business modelling
  • Demand testing with smoke tests

Product

  • MVP development and iteration
  • CAD: Shapr3D, Fusion 360, Inventor
  • Supplier sourcing and negotiation
  • Mechanics and mechatronics background

E-commerce & Growth

  • Shopify store design and management
  • Short-form video content
  • Paid ads (Beginner)
  • Cold outreach and first sales

Design & Build

  • Framer (advanced)
  • Figma (beginner)
  • AI tools: Claude Code, Claude Design
  • Fundamentals of economics, finance, marketing and management

03Background

  1. 2024 — 2027BSc Business Creation & EntrepreneurshipUniversity of Chichester (UK), delivered at H-FARM College, RoncadeEducation
  2. NowCo-founderDesmerkWork
  3. 2024 — 2026Strategy AdvisorUnitopiaWork
  4. 2025 — 2026Pizza delivery riderDuring universityWork
  5. 2024Warehouse workerFedEx, summer before universityWork
  6. 2023Production internParpas S.p.A. (machine tools), school placementWork
  7. 2022Mechanical design assistantMechanical design studio, summerWork
  8. 2018 — 2023Technical Diploma in Mechanics and MechatronicsITIS G. Marconi, PadovaEducation

Also

  • NASA HackathonH-FARM, 2024
  • Corporate innovation challengeWith Gelateria La Romana
  • Ranked 2nd out of 150+ studentsSelection for an exchange programme with a German partner school during high school

04What I'm looking for

Looking for an internship from January 2027.

I want to work inside a team that builds things: new products, new ventures or new markets. I bring a founder's habit of doing whatever the project needs, and the patience to learn how a real company does it properly.

Start
January 2027
Roles
Strategy · Venture building · Product · Growth
Location
Based in Padova · open to on-site, hybrid or remote
Languages
Italian · English (C1)
alessandro.maciariello1@gmail.com
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