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

Kosmos Digital Innovation

Founder

Nebulab

Product Management, Project Management, Roadmapping, and Team Management for the Solidus eCommerce software.

Head of Research And Development

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Director Of Engineering

- Building, leading and developing a successful distributed team of remote software engineers.
- Coaching and mentoring team members as well as other Engineering Managers.
- Iterating on frequent, bidirectional, constructive feedback to increase work and output quality.
- Defining and documenting specific processes and rituals to improve the team's effectiveness.
- Creating guidelines and best practices for the engineering division (28 engineers).
- Working on smaller code changes and reviewing NodeJS code (TypeScript, JavaScript).

Engineering Manager: Application Infrastructure

VIP Platform Engineer

Usablenet

- Defined and applied ICT procedures.
- Introduced Agile methodology and successfully introduced a Jira-based ticketing system to reduce interruptions and increase focus time for engineers.
- Coordinated routine audits on IT infrastructure, for example, load and penetration tests.
- Acted as the top technical escalation point for customers and suppliers/providers.
- Trained and mentored a team of three Systems Engineers.

Director of Information Technology

- Successfully rewritten Puppet production codebase, and achieved complete automation in server provisioning.
- Managed communications with clients, providers, and vendors.
- Administrative scripting with Bash, Ruby, Perl.
Overseen the sizing, capacity planning, and budgeting of the infrastructure.

Senior System and Network Administrator

Ciao - LeGuide Group (Shopping Guide GmbH)

Management of the production datacenter for the Ciao Website (around 300 servers, most of them Linux).

Worked on the migration of the production Datacenter to a new location.

Network and security design and planning.

Setup and maintenance of Linux and FreeBSD bastion hosts and IPSEC Site2Site VPNs.

Confirmation of employment (reference letter) attached below.

LAMP Operations Platform Expert

Nokia

Planning, sizing, deployment and management of Linux and Windows servers, both virtual (VMWare ESX) and physical, using automated installation and management tools like HP Business Server Essentials, Puppet, Kickstart.
Administration of the local server infrastructure, comprised of 300+ servers, the majority of which are Linux (RHEL, OpenSUSE, SLES) based; in addition to that, also taken over global services hosted in remote sites.
Management and configuration of webservers, mostly LAMP but also Rails, Apache + Perl CGI, some Windows 2k8 IIS + .NET.
Systems monitoring using Nagios, Cacti.
Setup and maintenance of the company’s GNU Mailman + Postfix System, used worldwide by the whole company, averaging a daily throughput of 40k+ emails for more than 600 mailing lists.
Planning, installation, administration, tuning and troubleshooting on MySQL servers, as well as support to developers.
Interaction with HW/SW vendors.

Senior Unix System Administrator

B. Holding Spa

Responsible for the operations of IT functions in a mixed network environment.
Design and deploy of redundant network infrastructures, including HP and Cisco switches, routers, firewalls and servers.
Design, setup, deploy and management of a two-bastion hosts architecture, with double DMZ for company's LAN perimeter security, with static ARP cache, arptables, iptables, Snort, Samhain IDS and more.
Responsibile for setup and tuning of multi-terabytes Samba servers, including kernel configuration and vfs tuning.
Setup and management of perimeter and internal firewalls for external customers, mostly with Cisco, Netgear, Sonicwall, Cyberoam and custom Linux boxes with tuned kernels.
Setup and deploy of Linux and Windows 2003/2008 servers, providing network services including DHCP, DNS, CVS, SVN, e-mail servers using Postfix/Courier/Dovecot, IIS, Apache, Squid/Dansguardian proxy servers, Domain Controllers and fileservers, Oracle 9i/10g/11g RAC/Grid, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
Perl, Ruby and Bash administrative scripting.
Consolidation of IT infrastructure through servers virtualization, using VMWare vSphere running on a IBM Blade Center + DS 4k subsystem.
Played the role of decision maker in the adoption of new technologies.
Software development: Web apps with Ruby on Rails, PHP; C# client/server applications.
Major tasks in the process of analyzing and discussing customers specifications and goals.

Lead Solutions Architect

Lead Consulting Srl

Document management system software development and maintenance, system and network administration.
Tools and languages including Lisp, C/C++ on RedHat Linux, Informix SE DBMS, Oracle 9i, MS Access and VBA.

Senior Lead Developer

Assicom Spa

Network and System administrator of Linux (SuSe, RedHat, Slackware) and Windows Server (NT4, 2000, 2003) systems.
Setup, deploy, maintenance, hardening and tuning of several network services (DHCP, DNS, HTTP/S, Domain Control, Fileserver, SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
Software development: Java + Jsp servlets for XML-based chart generator, Visual Basic 6.0 legacy software.

Lead System Architect

IT Consultant | Systems Integrator and Software Developer | Experienced Manager

IT manager with a passion for hands-on work when necessary but a reluctance to micromanage, with over 20 years of international experience in software development, systems integrations, and team management.

Proven track record of building high-performance engineering teams, while mentoring, coaching, and caring for team members to facilitate their growth and help them fulfil their career goals.

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