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

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Nicola Ballotta

Backgammon Galaxy

As the hands-on CTO at Backgammon Galaxy, I lead the development of an innovative online backgammon game, serving a vibrant and engaged community. Since joining, I’ve been instrumental in driving substantial growth, with revenue increasing more than 20 times.

Key Responsibilities:

    Team Leadership: Building and nurturing a high-performing remote tech team, fostering a collaborative and dynamic culture.
    Project Management: Overseeing all aspects of project execution, from initial concept through to delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
    Budget Allocation: Managing resources and budget efficiently to maximize ROI and drive project success.
    Negotiation: Engaging with stakeholders and partners to secure favorable terms and enhance project outcomes.
    Software Development: Leveraging technologies such as Elixir, Flutter, NodeJS, React, and Python to drive innovation and deliver a top-tier gaming experience.
    Cloud Architecture: Designing and implementing scalable cloud solutions using Kubernetes and Terraform, optimizing performance and reliability.
    Continuous Integration: Implementing CI/CD pipelines to streamline development processes and ensure high-quality code delivery.

Reporting directly to the CEO, I play a crucial role in shaping the technological vision and strategy, aligning our technical capabilities with the company’s overarching objectives.

J On The Beach

JOTB is an international rendezvous for developers and DevOps around Big Data technologies. A fun conference to learn and share the latest experiences, tips and tricks related to Big Data technologies and, the most important part, it’s On The Beach!

Co Organizer Jonthebeach International Developers Event

Adysof

I help my customers to design, build and maintain cloud-native applications. I was involved in many projects around the world playing different roles.

* Team Leadership
* Project management
* Negotiation
* Tech Consultant
* Software Development
* Cloud Architecture
* Training
* HR Tech Partner

Main Projects:
* EasyWP: Wordpress and CDN as a Service - Namecheap (USA)
* Secure Cloud Communication system offered as PaaS - Ockam(USA)
* Multi Datacenter GitOps Kubernetes - Harman (USA)
* Testnet for Blockchain Platform - Taraxa (USA)
* ClearML: Machine Learning Cloud applications - AllegroAI (Israel)
* Kamaji: Hard Multitenancy for Kubernetes - Clastix (Italy)
* AWS Cloud Automation/Migration for E-commerce platform - Plytix (Spain)
* DevOps Training - Accenture (Spain)
* Kubernetes Platform in Openstack for solar energy projects - Bettergy (Spain)
* Suricata: Crypto Trading Platform - Tadorne Ventures (Cyprus)

SW Development and DevOps Consultant

Palmtree Statistics

Most significant tech authority of the company, directly working with the CEO and the co-founders. Focus on building teams, helping and guiding other colleagues, improving the architecture to include new use cases, increasing the reliability of all the applications, and automating processes. I was also involved in other business-related tasks.

Main project: A trading bot that could bet against more than 400 matches simultaneously and corner the market.

Chief Software Architect

Palmtree Statistics' first tech employee and, therefore, I had to create all the tech environment of Palmtree Statistics to later design, develop and maintain production SW solutions to help professional sports traders. The SW solutions become a digitalization project where traders did not need human assistants to work with statistics, match status, or market prices anymore. Every trader went from tracking 5 matches up to tracking 20 matches. Directly working with the CEO and the co-founders.

Main project: Football trading system which helped traders to take decisions more accurately and faster than their competitors. It was able to track more than 400 football matches around the world at the same time.

Senior Software Engineer

Ericsson

Collaborating with several agile teams distributed around the world developing SW tools that were used to optimize mobile (GSM, UMTS, and LTE) networks of several vendors like AT&T, Telefonica, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom. Information traces of the network nodes were analyzed in order to identify and geo-locate issues.

Main project: TPS (Trace Processing Server) took traces (network protocol events) and processed them in order to help field engineers to take better decisions.

R&D Engineer

CIATESA

Being part of a cross-functional team to develop industrial HVAC solutions, mainly for airports, where my responsibility was Software and Hardware related. Start-ups, on-site updates, and training were also my tasks.

Main project: HVAC SW design, development, and deployment for Emirates Airlines Engineering Center project (Dubai – UAE)

Control & Comms Engineer

CTO at Backgammon Galaxy

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