Our story
Far Rainbow was founded in 2020. The experience behind it started twenty years earlier.
Far Rainbow Srl was registered in Lecco in April 2020 by Alexey Vysokov. By then he had spent twenty years on all three sides of a technology project: as the engineer who builds it, as the vendor who sells and delivers it, and as the executive who answers for the result. The company was built on that combination.
Alexey Vysokov
Founder and sole director · In IT since 2000
Engineer by training, integrator by trade, product director by the time he started this company. Everything below is his record — which is also the answer to who is accountable when something goes wrong here.
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2000–2004
From the server room up
Started in IT in 2000, while still at university, as system administrator at a regional public health authority: its servers, the local network — built and then run — and technical support for users and for the authority’s regional offices.
In 2002 graduated with honours as an engineer in software for computer and automated systems, then joined a network integrator as a system engineer. Designed and deployed enterprise networks for regional branches of a national central bank, a consumer bank and heavy industry — including a 6,000-port network for a steelworks.
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2004–2006
Inside a multinational
Manager in the IT & Telecom department of Sumitomo Corporation, the Japanese trading house. Business development for Hitachi Cable and Peribit Networks equipment, a sales channel built with the largest system integrators on the market, and everything around it: vendor relations, logistics and customs, forecasting and budgeting. A first-hand look at how a global company plans, decides and reports.
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2005–2015
Founder of a system integrator
Founded Netberg, a hardware–software integration company: data storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, IT service management, high-performance computing and network infrastructure. Grew it to a team of 15 and ran it for almost ten years — strategy, finance, enterprise sales and delivery. Direct partnerships with NetApp, Juniper Networks, Novell, Syncsort and Axios Systems.
Clients included banks, a national insurer, bank-card and fuel-card processing centres, a broadcaster, government agencies and a state aviation research institute: organisations where a system is not allowed to stop.
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2011 onward
Italy
Settled in Lecco and began working as an independent consultant in product management, technology strategy and the internationalisation of IT projects, mentoring startups along the way. For the next four years he kept running Netberg from Italy, leading the team remotely — long before remote management became common practice.
Advanced training in strategic management in Switzerland and Germany (2013); the startup development programme of the Como-Lecco Chamber of Commerce (2016). This is where running projects across borders, with teams in other countries, became the normal way of working.
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2017–2020
Product leadership at scale
Director of Product Development at a software company with more than 1,000 developers, working remotely from Italy. Several development teams building several products in parallel, plus the sales team: roadmaps and launches, intellectual property, negotiations with C-level clients, investors and strategic partners.
Certified Scrum Product Owner; Software Product Management (University of Alberta); Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution (ESSEC Business School).
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April 2020
Far Rainbow
Far Rainbow Srl was registered in Lecco in April 2020, in the first weeks of the lockdown in Lombardy. While most companies were learning to work remotely, for us it was simply how we had always worked: distributed teams were not an adaptation, but the starting condition — backed by almost a decade of leading people from a distance.
The model came straight from the years before: a lean permanent structure, and for each engagement a team of people we have already worked with, chosen for that specific task.
Since then
More than 50 clients in 14 countries
Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Estonia and Cyprus in Europe; the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East; Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in the Caucasus and Central Asia; and Brazil. The work spans custom software, modernisation of business-critical systems and system integration, and the company is an authorised Jmix service provider for Italy and Switzerland.
What clients get today is what those years taught: an engineer’s attention to how a system actually works, a vendor’s discipline about deadlines and contracts, and an owner’s responsibility for the result.
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