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
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Nicola Ballotta

Dell Technologies

Lead Product Manager for managed services integrated with multiple 3rd parties:
•	First customer booked 6 months after soft launch of colocation capability
•	Formed a product team to launch a new managed colocation service.  This managed service has booked several multi-year deals.
•	Leading the product team in optimizing the sales motion and service delivery to grow sales year over year.
•	Negotiated resale contracts with 3rd party service providers for a one-stop managed service experience for customers

Principal Product Manager

Defined as-a-Service (XaaS) offers for servers and storage.  Developed managed colocation services from incubation to launch.  Led an extensive virtual team across Services, Products, Marketing, and Sales.
The colocation services platform delivers managed services integrated with 3rd party colocation providers.

Zerto

Led the software roadmap for Zerto’s continuous data protection platform used by Cloud Service Providers and enterprises.
•	Delivered new features twice yearly to protect virtualized workloads in VMware, Hyper-V, Azure and AWS environments.
•	Managed strategic and technical partner relationships in support of $100M+ annual revenues.
•	Established technical standards for software release management, product security, product documentation, and customer experience management resulting in customer growth with minimal product team growth.
•	Developed customer focused benchmarking documentation for optimizing product performance.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Drove the roadmap for all storage integrations with VMware vCenter and vRealize Suite.  Managed the Software Defined Storage product lines that are used in Cloud-based 
networks, enterprises and small/medium businesses.  
- Successfully transitioned a legacy product line to Agile development methodologies while launching a new product
- Managed six product releases to completion in two years
- Developed 700 person sales community by training seminars, webinars and wikis
- Drove usability improvements based on user experience that reduced installation time and simplified daily operations.
- Led go-to-market strategies for a freeware product that generates 50+ weekly leads

World Wide Product Manager

Cisco

As cross-functional team leader of engineering and product managers, integrated acquired companies into Cisco’s engineering division.  
• Created consistent product and service offers across the engineering teams while maintaining productivity of the acquired engineering teams
• Generated $150M in incremental bookings by implementing a new software customization process 
• Developed offer strategies including new capabilities for usage billing, software subscriptions and licensing which automated all the business transactions.
• Defined and executed go-to-market strategy for the $700M IP Video business, leading to repeatable transactions and multi-year deal management guidelines
• Brought software release process into compliance for SOX, ISO and Open Source while supporting Agile development practices

Senior Product Manager

Managed the product lifecycle of the legacy Edge Router product line. Migrated global installed base to next generation Edge Router product line with compelling features and marketing programs. 
•	Developed revenue share arrangement with partners to generate $20M in incremental bookings
•	Grew market share while migrating customers to next generation product
•	Created and executed end-of-life plan with pricing strategies, trade-in programs and competitive differentiation

Sr Manager, Product Managment

Led team of 12 product managers in product lifecycle and go-to-market for two softswitch product lines.
• Grew revenue from zero to $100M+ per year by delivering software releases to match customer needs
• Launched a user group with 100+ active customer participants which resulted in rapid feature delivery from exposing the engineering team to customers

Senior Manager Product Management

Alcatel

Led team of 35 product managers and product marketing experts in the Signaling Transfer Point product line. Generated $120M annually from global service providers.

Senior Director, Marketing

DSC Communications

- Led software quality improvements while delivering revenue generating features.  Managed a diverse team of 200+ with annual budget of $15 million and annual product revenues of $100 million.

Senior Director of Software Development

Principal Product Manager @ Dell | Managed Services and Cloud Product Management | Author of Product Management IRL

As the Lead Product Manager at Dell Technologies, my focus is on pioneering managed services that seamlessly integrate with third-party providers.  My expertise in defining XaaS offers and developing managed services from incubation to market introduction has been instrumental in sales growth and service delivery. Collaborating with an extensive virtual team, I've negotiated key contracts and empowered a product team dedicated to year-over-year growth, all rooted in a deep understanding of software product management and networking.

Amy Mitchell

Don't limit yourself to your product job description. Peter Yang has a perspective on the evolution of product management:
 
1️⃣ Building will be a baseline expectation of product managers
            
2️⃣ The only way to learn to build is to get your hands dirty, make mistakes and start shipping
 
3️⃣ For the first time ever, ICs who use AI tools can have more leverage than people managers
           
4️⃣ Successful product managers will have "just figure it out" energy
 
The product managers who thrive will combine builder speed with influence.

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gxhQiVmG

Open article: So What's Going to Happen to Product Management Anyway? by creatoreconomy.so

So What's Going to Happen to Product Management Anyway?

After 150 weeks of writing about product management…
the biggest surprise isn’t the articles.
It’s what product managers have taught me.
 
Three years ago, I started writing to share what I knew.
Today, this newsletter reflects what product managers are actually working through.
 
To mark week 150, I pulled back the curtain on:
• The most-read themes of the year
• How each article actually comes together
• The topics I intentionally don’t cover
• What I’m focusing on next

🔗 https://lnkd.in/g_9iw4kc

Product Management Work Today by Amy Mitchell

I recently hit a stretch of product work where almost nothing was clear
fuzzy intent, 
shifting expectations, 
lots of noise. 

I kept trying to choose the “right” option… and it only made things worse.

Then I remembered something I’ve learned (and relearned) over years of product manager work:
  - Ambiguous work isn’t an options problem.
  - It’s a systems problem.

When I stop hunting for the perfect option and instead build a simple system to shape the problem, I get traction again. The work starts moving. I start moving.

I wrote down the 6-part system I now use when I feel stuck in ambiguity.

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gPVDxTs5 
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System to Handle Ambiguous Work by Amy Mitchell

Learning from an AI-first CPO. If you want to stop sprinkling AI around your product, Rina Alexin's interview with Aleks Bass, CPO at Typeform, breaks down what AI-first means.
 
3 changes to be AI-first:
 
1️⃣ Procurement is your new best friend
       - POC (Proof of concept) procurement to test multiple solutions in parallel safely
 
2️⃣ Clarity + Observability = Control
       - Every team has a clear AI strategy
       - Every initiative must be measurable
 
3️⃣ Speed from experiments to outcomes
       - AI becomes a quiet multiplier instead of a headline
 
"The best AI for product managers is the kind that disappears into better outcomes."

Open article: How to Build an AI-First Organization: Lessons from Typeform’s CPO, Aleks Bass by productside.com

How to Build an AI-First Organization: Lessons from Typeform’s CPO, Aleks Bass

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