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

Cognizant

- I actively participate in RFIs, RFPs and client discussions
- I build and manage relationships with both external and internal stakeholders.
- I actively manage day by day operations for 4 teams across 3 different projects, including staffing, performance management, goal setting and mentoring. 
- I remain engaged in R&D initiatives driving cloud migrations of our tooling and the adoption of code companiontechnology based on Github Copilot and OpenAI
- I ideate and build performance management documents, conduct hiring management and staffing for the Web group.

Senior Engineering Manager

As a community manager I am driving a group of approximately 160 engineers. My responsibilities are both operational and strategic and include: staffing, hiring management, performance management, developing initiatives and programs that provide opportunities and thought leadership for our community, research and development project ownership. 

I am always in contact with multiple stakeholders assessing a wide array of situations and providing solutions. 

I interview and discuss offers as well as staffing options with external candidates and participate in client calls in order to identify the best matching candidates.

Community Manager

Cognizant Softvision

The Community Lead role is responsible for managing a subset of an engineering community. 
Key activities include but are not limited to: 
- Building teams: from on boarding to staffing to regular follow ups, always checking that our colleague's career plans are in sync with the delivery team's plans. 
- Building careers: developing career plans, growth plans and coaching both technical and soft skills.
- Hiring management
- Strategic community initiatives: designing and implementing diverse talent programmes targeted at building knowledge, shifting technology focus, training entry level colleagues, training interviewers and team leaders, community growth, engagement 
- R&D projects technical ownership: Technical drive and supervision over R&D teams, helping with general architecture overview, engaging in discussions with different stakeholders and third party departments in order to facilitate coordination with the team.
- Performance reviews and objective management.

Community Lead

Developing PHP applications and REST APIs for a large logistics company. Improving existing code and creating new features. Find the best solutions for connecting the existing application with third party applications.

Developing and maintaining modules and features for one of the top CRM solutions on the market.

Working on breaking down a monolithic web application (PHP) into several micro services written in Python. This involves working with asynchronous requests between the micro services and keeping Postgres databases in sync as well as decomposing large parts of the monolith and recreating then into new services

PHP/Python Software Engineer

Cloud Connect IT

Development Team Leader

Gameloft

I was selected to become the team leader of the local business intelligence team (8 team members). 

My daily responsibilities were related to administrative team management, technical support, task breakdown and estimations and overall delivery of required features.

Occasionally I interviewed new candidates for the open positions within our team. 

I provided feedback to my colleagues and participated in their performance reviews as an evaluator.

Business Intelligence Team Leader

Working on custom business intelligence solutions, developed by our department using PHP and InfiniDB (a columnar solution for Mysql) capable of extracting, transforming and loading millions of new entries per day.

One such solution was represented by our state of the art analytics tool that displayed complex in-game data and metrics including financial details to our main game stakeholders.

Daily responsibilities included ticket validation, solutioning, implementation and delivery. I was working as part of an 8 member team interacting with different stakeholders spread across our organization.

I was selected to be a part of a limited special purpose team deployed to identify and fix issues in one of our online games developed for the SE Asia market. Together with my 3 other colleagues we stabilized the product before returning to our original team.

PHP Developer - Business Intelligence

FaroDevelopment

Developing web applications with Php, MySql, HTML, CSS, Javascript. Custom framework used

Junior Web Developer

Community Manager, Web | I am driving an engineering community of about 160 colleagues located in two hubs. | I build and grow individual tech profiles, teams and engineering communities.

The views and opinions found on my LinkedIn profile, are my own and do not reflect the ones of my employer, colleagues or peers.

As an accomplished management professional, I am leading a team of 160 engineers providing strategic and operational oversight to ensure top-tier performance. My expertise lies in developing individuals, teams, and technical communities, while coordinating engagement and growth initiatives. In my current role, I oversee staffing, hiring management, and strategic program development that drives the dimensions of the group. I also work closely with stakeholders to assess various situations and provide tailored solutions to achieve goals.

My experience in a previous role also includes supporting business across the Web community, recruiting, interviewing and onboarding candidates, hiring management, team structure design and allocation, and supporting career development, growth plans, mentoring, and coaching initiatives. Additionally, I act as a product owner and drive continuous development on R&D initiatives within the Web Community. I am proficient in using Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, and I support using task tracking tools like Jira, Redmine, etc.

As a former web developer with a backend-centric profile, I started my software development journey as a PHP Engineer. Throughout my career, I have gained experience in various fields, including Business Intelligence, where I worked on large data sets extracted, transformed, and loaded into analytics tools developed by our teams. As a team leader, I led a team of seven people from a technical and administrative standpoint. I have also worked on a world-class CRM solution and have experience in Python development, including restructuring a PHP monolith into microservices written in Python and running on Docker. In addition, I have supported an R&D team in developing a Docker-based REACT+NodeJS+Postgres application.

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