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

Nicola Ballotta

manager.dev

Building, writing, and creating for Engineering Managers.

Founder

HoneyBook

Weave

A combo of Engineering + Marketing + Writing. 
I’m focusing on helping Engineering Managers discover and adopt Weave!

Engineering Management Evangelist 

BI Magics

Tried my hand at startup life. Built and launched an agent-based product in the BI/data space.
Had some early traction, but turns out that bootstrapping a B2B data-oriented product is not that easy :)

Co-Founder & CTO

Taranis

Leading the Data group - we are responsible for the data acquisition and data flow until the final insight  for our clients.

Director of Engineering

Building and growing the Acquisition team. We are responsible for Taranis' operations applications, which are responsible for:
- Millions of images uploaded
- 50K+ flight plans generated
- 130+ satisfied drone pilots

- Python, NodeJS, React (Typescript)
- Leading a team of 5 developers

- Developed Electron and Web applications, using TypeScript - React/Redux/Redux-saga
- Microservices in Python (GRPC)
- Used Kubernetes (on GCP), RabbitMQ, Cloud storage, and some more buzzwords

Full-stack Developer

Mamram

Founded a team that was responsible for providing and maintaining Database-as-as-Service solutions on our private on-prem Cloud - both on VMs and Kubernetes.

- Python 
- Ansible 
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDb

After completing a 6-month intense coding bootcamp, I was chosen to instruct it. For 4 more years, as a commander and later an officer - mentoring the next generation of Israeli programmers.

Programming Course Commander

Golden Zebra Software Inc.

- JavaScript  
- Created 3D arcade games in Unity3D, with world-physics and a storyline. 
- Created and sold 2 packages for other developers in the Unity Asset Store.

Software Developer

R&D Team Leader | Writing the "Leading Developers" newsletter

Being a software team leader is HARD. There are so many things you have to juggle, and nobody prepares you for it.

I started my first engineering management role 7 years ago, and I was completely overwhelmed. on the surface, everything seemed ok, but I was barely keeping it together. 

So I decided to do something about it. I've read tons of books, talked to tens of other team leaders, and improved. 

In 2020 I started a new role as a developer, and in 3 years I got promoted twice to a director of engineering. 

Now, I want to help other fresh engineering managers, by sharing what worked for me (and what didn’t). 

In my free weekly articles, you'll find practical no BS advice that you could actually apply TODAY to create a much stronger team.

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