Wibo

I'm building educational products at a scale to solve challenging problems and assist individuals in advancing their careers.

Head of Learning Design and Training

Remote Leadership Works

🏢 Remote Leadership Works facilitates ambitious leaders to realize their potential, enabling them to explore and transform their vision.

✅ Built the product portfolio and the overall product strategy.
✅ Designed, planned, and executed The Leadership Dojo, a cohort based leadership development program.
✅ Bootstrapped a leadership development program for first-time managers.

Head Instructor and Founder

The Owl and The Beetle

Editor in Chief

Avanscoperta

I conduct workshops for new manager, unleashing their full potential leading high-impact teams.

Topics include:
- Managing people with confidence
- Understanding your team members
- Asking powerful questions
- Navigating difficult conversations
- Negotiating and setting expectations, as well as keeping people accountable for them
- Giving and receiving feedback like a pro.

Effective Management Trainer

Team Tumbleweed

🏢 Team Tumbleweed is an international team of young professionals striving to develop a revolutionary approach to Mars exploration.

✅ Mentored the leadership team to enhance the capacity to scale the workforce, manage projects, and optimize the organization's performance. Hosted 10+ mentorship meetings so far.

Mentor, Leadership and Management

Automattic

🏢 Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Simplenote, Day One, and more. It's a fully distributed multinational software company with over 2000 employees in 98 countries, speaking 123 languages.

Product: 
✅ Directed the evolution of the sign-up and payment flows for jetpack.com. 
✅ Supervised the development of the unbundling and repositioning of our core products. 
✅ Overviewed the development of the partnership and agencies portal.

Leadership: 
✅ Directed a department of five engineering teams (30+ people) over 12+ timezones.
✅ Talent Management: Implemented a leadership development program for engineering managers. 
✅ Mentored engineering managers across the whole organization.

Key Results:
✅ Launched a new product offer, spinning off individual components, instead of the previous bundled offer.
✅ Implemented processes for forecasting and roadmap maintenance.
✅ Built an accountability and professional development plan for engineering managers and their engineering teams.

Director of Product Engineering

✅ Established, developed, and managed a team of software engineers across four continents. Led the team in charge of the overall user experience, from sign-up flows to the new user experience.

Senior Software Engineering Manager

✅ Successfully planned, designed, and implemented experiments to analyze customer behaviors across multiple products. Contributed to developing the in-house A/B testing infrastructure and facilitated multiple learning cohorts concerning growth and conversion rate optimization.

Growth Engineer - SAAS pipeline

WordCamp Europe

🏢 WordCamp Europe is an annual global conference that celebrates the WordPress community in a different European city each year. It provides a platform for members of the WordPress community to come together, share their knowledge and experiences, network, and engage in conversations about WordPress. Moreover, it is a chance to welcome people from all over the world to Europe to appreciate its diversity and culture.

✅ Led the Sponsor Team, which was instrumental in ensuring the ticket prices remained low while providing our attendees with a high-quality event. 

✅ Rallied companies aligned with our philosophies and relevant to our attendees and providing them with a high-profile experience in return.

Sponsors Program Team Lead

✅ I spearheaded the Volunteers team, comprising individuals who generously dedicated their time and effort to ensure a successful outcome.

✅ I had the esteemed privilege of recruiting, training, organizing and managing a team of over 250 members over a period of three days.

Volunteers Program Team Lead

✅ I collaborated in the planning and execution of the event, including providing local logistical support.

✅ I was the content team leader responsible for creating the event's agenda, selecting the speakers, and ensuring a successful conference.

Global Conference Co-Organizer

Heisenberg Media

Heisenberg Media will provide you with the highest-quality of photographic services for your event.

Portrait photographer specialized in creating high-quality headshots for the tech industry.

Took over 200+ portraits/year.

Founding Partner - Master of Portraits

Transforming leadership chaos into clarity; I provide strategic support, enabling managers to unlock their full potential. Eager to connect with new professional opportunities.

I’ve built my career by stepping into the unknown—with curiosity, focus, and a drive to help.

Across roles and industries, one thing’s always been true: people come to me when things feel stuck.

Sometimes it’s a process that needs structure. Sometimes it’s a team dynamic that needs clarity. Sometimes it’s just someone needing to feel heard. Whatever the challenge, I bring order, calm, and accountability.

I don’t chase titles or trends. I follow what works—listening deeply, managing complexity, and helping people move forward with confidence.

Helping isn’t a soft skill. It’s how I lead, how I build trust, and how I make work—and people—better.

If you’re navigating change or trying to create something that actually works, I’m here to help.

Let’s figure it out—together.


Luca Sartoni

Zscaler

DevOps Architect

Bluebeam, Inc.

Software Architect

Recharge Payments

-   Participated in the Architecture Board, which governed best practices, cross-cutting concerns, and technical proposals
-   Introduced a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to address quality issues and reduce production incidents by 90%+
-   Led the organization of the first Architecture Summit to discuss high-level concerns and processes
-   Increased batch job processing throughput by 4x through hands-on troubleshooting and developer coaching
-   Designed API throughput performance improvements for a 10-15x reduction in deployment resources and related costs
-   Mentored engineers by sponsoring technical designs, offering career guidance, and enhancing technical skills
-   Promoted methodologies for performance testing and data-driven decision making
-   Developed strategies and systems for decomposing a monolith into microservices
-   Collaborated with the event bus team on designs for eventing and serverless functions
-   Improved testing frameworks and guided developers on Test Driven Development (TDD)
-   Worked with the Security Team to address security concerns and implement secure coding practices
-   Utilized Python, Google Cloud Platform/Functions, API First designs, Microservices, Dapr, Redis, Docker/container images, Kubernetes, MySQL, and ElasticSearch

Principal Engineer/Software Architect

Pulse Secure

- Served on the Architecture Board, responsible for determining overall software architecture and development practices
- Architected and led a team for the development of a Zero Trust microservice platform
- Coordinated security hardening, evaluation, and best practices for most Python-based software
- Designed and led the development of the Python framework at the core of most of the company's Python software
- Designed various features, including authentication token management, multi-tenancy, WebSockets, event messaging, RBAC, user management, certificate management/PKI, OpenAPI adoption, Docker image builds, Postgres migrations, async function queues, and inter-service APIs
- Advocated for Python Best Practices, API design, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
- Maintained several open-source projects core to the company's Python frameworks
- Coordinated Python 2 to Python 3 conversion of many microservices
- Utilized Python, Azure, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker/containers, Postgres, MySQL, Nginx (Lua), OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Terraform, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch

Principal Engineer/Architect

- Leader of team that converted newly acquired MobileSpaces's Mobile Device Management (MDM) software to Pulse Workspace
- Architect for Pulse One, a VPN server manager and orchestrator that is Docker based, SaaS and On-premise
- Team lead for conversion of Pulse One from a SaaS solution to a cluster-able, on-premise solution within 6 months. Its Docker based architecture can be installed on custom VPN hardware or ran in VMware

Senior Staff Engineer/Server Architect

Various startups and consulting roles

Through many years of software engineering, I gained a broad range of experience from various startups, consulting companies, and open-source projects. I've deployed to every major cloud hosting provider. I've been hands-on with every major programming language. I have developed SaaS, on-premise, desktop, and mobile applications. Some notable highlights include:

-   Co-founding a software contracting agency called Massive Forge, where we developed multiple applications using Python and Javascript. A client acquired the company.
-   Software Architect Consultant for several Hong Kong-based startups, including Libbler and Pingspot, where I developed applications using Python, Javascript, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, and iOS.
-   MapMyFitness (acquired by Under Armour), a fitness tracking SaaS and mobile app, where I primarily developed with Python and Django. I also worked with Hadoop, Cassandra, and Java for analytics.
-   Zenoss, IT monitoring software, where I designed a new event processing and service monitoring suite as part of a project to convert the software from Python to Java.
-   A fintech startup called Bancvue Interactive (now known as Kasasa), where I developed SaaS products for community banks and credit unions.

Additional Software Engineer Experience

Pingspot

Pingspot (http://pingspot.com/) was "A fun, new way to record and recommend your favorite businesses.". It's an iOS application with a Python backend. For Pingspot I developed the mobile application as well as designed and developed the backend. The app graphics were designed and created by Catchlight Productions (http://www.catchlight.com/).

Technologies used: Python with Flask and Celery, MongoDB, Redis, Foursquare API, Facebook API, iOS SDK, Heroku, Cloudinary

Software Architect Consultant

Libbler

Libbler (http://libbler.com/) is "The ultimate career launchpad for entry level professionals. Features include: resume builder and guide, comprehensive employer database for graduate, internship, entry level opportunities and practical industry advice to help develop career skills.". 

I designed and developed the original libbler.com from top to bottom -- except for the graphic design.

Technologies used: Python with Flask and Celery, Spine.js, Coffeescript, MongoDB, Redis, Oneall single-sign-on, Heroku and AWS

Massive Forge

A software contracting agency that I started with my business partners. We developed several applications, primarily with Python and Javascript. The company was acqui-hired by a client.

Co-Founder/CTO

MapMyFitness

- Maintained and developed new features for primary website platform using Python/Django and MySQL
- Developed new API platform using Python and Flask while utilizing Django ORM
- Developed new live race tracking platform using Flask and integrated with remote tracking services using Python and RabbitMQ
- Created APIs for mobile developers to integrate with race tracking
- Maintained fitness statistics reporting engine using Hadoop, Cassandra, and Java
- Created and maintained new unit test infrastructure using py.test
- Developed continuos build solution for development virtual boxes using VirtualBox, Vagrant, and Python

Senior Software Engineer

Zenoss, Inc.

Zenoss provides dynamic system monitoring for IT services across physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud infrastructures. The core of Zenoss is open source and built on Zope/Python, Ext JS, and MySQL.

- Helped wrap up development of UI refresh for 3.0 release
- Developed Dynamic Service View using Flex and yfiles
- Use Agile methodologies for software development
- Design new event processing and service monitoring suite which uses Java, RabbitMQ, SOLR/Lucene, and Neo4j.

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