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

Namecheap, Inc

In my role as Director of the Namecheap Cloud Department, I lead and manage four highly skilled teams, comprising a total of 40 talented individuals. My primary responsibilities encompass people management, budget oversight, stakeholder engagement, and the strategic direction of technical decisions to ensure seamless functionality within the department.

Director of Cloud

As an Engineering Manager, I began by overseeing a team of 6-7 individuals, which subsequently expanded and was divided into various teams, each specializing in distinct areas such as frontend development, DevOps, and infrastructure management. My primary responsibility as an Engineering Manager was to ensure the effective coordination and execution of projects, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment. This included:

- Team Leadership
- Project Management
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Technical Direction
- Performance Optimization
- Stakeholder Communication

Engineering Manager

EasyWP is a WordPress managed hosting platform built on top of the latest containerization and cloud technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, CoreOS, Openstack, Ceph). My roles in EasyWP are multiple. Product vision, agile product management, container infrastructure creation and maintenance, design.

EasyWP Product Owner

wpXtreme Inc

wpXtreme is a true app store for WordPress, the most widespread Content Management System. My role in wpXtreme is to build the product giving the long term vision to the rest of the team. I manage the development with agile methodologies and I plan all the actions around the final product; I'm also responsible about the communication  strategies.

Ceo & Founder

Saidmade Srl

I've founded Saidmade with the aim of supporting companies improve their online presence. Saidmade has been for years one of the most known communication companies in Italy and one of the first mobile applications developer.

Hurricane Media Srl

Software and System Engineer/Co-Founder

Softech Srl

In Softech Srl I had different tasks: web developer, system engineer, security manager.

Web Developer / System Engineer

Fondazione S. Carlo

I've managed the Unix system infrastructure of Fondazione San Carlo and I've been the person in charge for R&D.

Unix System engineer

ePlanet Spa

In ePlanet I was the person in charge for security and system maintenance. I've been involved in different projects and worked with some big italian companies (HP, Fastweb, etc).

Edp manager

Director of Cloud at Namecheap | 🤓 Author of The Hybrid Hacker, a newsletter about Engineering Management, Leadership, Career Growth and Productivity

I've spent 25+ years diving deep into technology, building businesses, and leading high-performing teams of Engineers. I try to condense all this experience in my newsletter and share it with my 30,000+ subscribers.

My main goal is to help other Engineers and Leaders grow and avoid mistakes I made in my career, through sharing:

🔧 Practical advice on how to grow from Engineer to Engineering Manager or Leader
📚 Personal stories about how I grew from Individual Contributor to Director
🎨 Easily understandable articles enriched with visuals to simplify complex concepts

If all of this makes sense to you, join 20k+ subscribers at: https://hybridhacker.email

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