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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Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform

Maven

Teaching a highly-rated, 4.8/5 star, cohort-based course for high-growth engineers: "Mid-level to Senior for high-growth engineers".

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Qualified

- Lead cross-functional & org-wide features
- Mentor & coach engineers for growth
- Oversee and provide technical guidance on new frontend features
- Build performant, accessible, and composable UI abstractions used by all engineers

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Foundations)

Gusto

Frontend engineer improving accessibility, writing documentation, and building UI components.

Senior Software Engineer (Design Systems)

Full-stack engineer building products that help customers' financial stability. 

Specifically, our team worked on enabling people to access their earned wages before payday; helping thousands of people receive emergency access to cash when they need it the most.

Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Typescript, React, and SQL

Senior Software Engineer (Financial Products)

Mid-level Software Engineer (Financial Products)

Entry-level Software Engineer (Financial Products)

Dolomite

Backend Tech Lead

Twitter

Led product additions to home timeline through the entire lifecycle, designing the Thrift and JSON additions, then implemented the infrastructure changes across 3 services in Scala. Ran A/B test to determine if the feature improved metrics.

Reduced load of calling Timelines API by allowing consumers to specify the response data they want.

Performed refactor which spanned 6 codebases, significantly simplifying logic and making code modular.

Software Engineer Intern

Lehigh University Computer Science and Business Association

Mentor students who want to hold their own workshop: Including workshops such as,
"Intro to Cryptocurrency", 
"How to Contribute to Open Source Projects", 
"How to Create a Personal Website", 
"How to get an Internship",
"How to Make Your Apps Beautiful (using MaterializeCSS and Bootstrap)"

Lead project on redesigning interactive flowchart of courses, leading to an easier time for students to plan out which courses they will take. Flowchart URL: https://csb-flowchart.firebaseapp.com/

Lead project on digitizing voting for CSBA elections, leading to a more efficient and less error-prone process.

Assist in organization of company visits to Lehigh University where the company will meet with CSB students. Companies include: Goldman Sachs, Lockheed Martin, PwC, Sanofi.

Introduced first CSB program-wide communication channel, allowing students to be able to ask questions about classes and receive various resources.

Facilitate weekly discussions at board meetings of ~20-25 people.

Delegate work to 7 other executive board members and Freshmen Representative.

President

Responsibilities include: 
1. Assist in executive duties and decisions as assigned by the President, supervise board members.
2. Ensure adherence to each role’s responsibilities.
3. Provide leadership and guidance to other board members.

Achievements:

Researched and solved issues regarding search engine optimization. By the end, our website was accessible through the first 2 links of a search on all major search engines.

Created the ability for CSB students and Programming Club (ACM) members to sign up for mock technical interviews. This was not previously available at Lehigh University. Since the creation of the mock technical interviews, many students have gained practice they otherwise would not have had.

Held a workshop on how to make a personal website for CSB students. Within a few weeks after the workshop, multiple people who attended the workshop have told me they made their own website and/or made a website for a class project.

Managed the Mentor-Mentee program, a system designed to help incoming freshmen with the transition into the rigorous Computer Science & Business program.

Consistently presented in front of over 200 students in the CSB major

Vice President

Built backend infrastructure in Scala which laid the groundwork for allowing any team to send in-app prompts to users. Then wrote the backend logic for the first use case of this infrastructure, leading to ~500,000 users/day being prompted to make their account more secure by confirming or reviewing their email. When users confirm their email it makes their account more secure because if they forget their password, they are able to get a new one.

Interacted between multiple micro-services using Thrift to create remote procedural (RPC) calls across teams.

Wrote design documentation for changing requirements, working across multiple teams for approval.

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