Career Profile
If I had to describe myself in one word, I would use the word curious. And I can definitely say with my 20+ years of curiosity I achieved a lot of experience in different fields. The set of skills I gained in the years and the strong vision I have, allow me to lead high performing technical teams to support any kind of product. Cloud and SaaS ones (the most challenging nowadays), are definitely my favourites. Even though I've a strong technical background, words like customers, design, KPI come always first in my list.
Recent Experiences
As Director of Cloud in Namecheap, I'm responsible of managing multiple teams of smart and highly skilled people to develop prototypes that will be future cloud products for our company. Cloud platforms like Openstack and VMware, Docker containers, orchestrators like Kubernetes and many other bleeding edge technologies are my daily bread and butter.
- remotely manage an entire department of 30+ ppl
- manage big budgets (~$3M)
- hire greater tech talents
EasyWP is a famous WordPress managed hosting platform built on top of the latest containerized and cloud technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Openstack, Ceph). My roles in EasyWP were multiple. Product vision, agile product development, ideation, creation and maintenance of the first containerized infrastructure.
- build a successful product with hundreds of thousands of customers from scratch
- take important technical decisions
- manage an highly skilled technical team
- do good estimates
- interact with stake holders
wpXtreme was the first true app store for WordPress, the most widespread Content Management System nowadays. My role in wpXtreme was to ideate the product giving the long term vision to the rest of the team. I managed the development with agile methodologies and I planned all the actions around the final product; I'm was also responsible of the communication strategies.
- raise funding (250K raised)
- run an international company
- build a product for a wider audience
- fail a company
I've founded Saidmade with the aim of supporting companies and improving their online presence. Saidmade for years has been one of the most known media companies in Italy and one of the first iOS application developers.
- create a company from scratch
- manage financials
- deal with business partners
- hire people
I've collaborated with big Italian and international companies (Pearson Paravia, Poste Italiane, Ford, just to mention) to improve their infrastructures and develop web based projects
- deal with large companies
- manage critical projects
- meet deadlines