I am a leader and software engineer with a strong passion for open source, where I’ve contributed as a coach, author, and maintainer. Although I’ve worked with a wide range of technologies, most of my career has centered on the web, a platform I love because of its portability, accessibility and reach. Over the years I’ve developed deep expertise in browsers, web standards, and performance, and I’ve also picked up principles of UX, product thinking, marketing, leadership, and business along the way.
Mentoring less experienced developers naturally led me into management, a path I embraced by studying management, communication, process design, and social psychology, and, most importantly, by gaining extensive hands-on experience. I’ve learned how to shape effective engineering organisations, from hiring and onboarding to culture and process. Including rolling out change across medium size organisations. While my focus today is leadership, I remain closely connected to technology, currently exploring how to integrate LLMs into engineering workflows and experimenting with Rust and WebAssembly.
2023/3 – now: Senior engineer manager
Designing and implementing engineering career path, performance evaluation, main processes. Coaching Engineer managers and Tech leads. Handling interview process and performance review. Driving culture and technology strategy. Leading learning platform and CMS development teams (around 80 engineers).
2021/1 - 2023/3: Senior Software engineer
Meta Workplace: working on several features in the Knowledge Library team
Meta Horizon Workrooms: working on the Whiteboard collaboration tool, used on Web, mobile and desktop app.
2020/1 - 2021/1 Head of engineering
Leading a team of 28 engineers split in 5 product teams. Most of my work was hiring and coaching the teams, define the technology direction and the remote way of working (most of my tenure was during the pandemic).
2018/3 – 2019/12 Principal Engineer
Leading multiple teams in projects around Resource marketplace, job recruitment, Marketing.
2015/11 – 2018/2 Senior Software Engineer
Registration platform, organisation management application. Website rebrand, frontend performance optimisation, school portal, core infrastructure (page composition layer). Team leader and mentoring junior developers.
2013/10 – 2015/10 Software Developer
Mobile and desktop web site, Front end performance optimizations (as a tech lead), new HTML5 videoplayer, Interactive maps for elections reporting.
2013 – 2013/10 Freelancer
Thick client Javascript applications for various customers
2010 – 2013/10 Web developer
Plone add-on products, Python standalone tools and applications - Javascript development - Facebook application development – Responsive Web design - GNU/Linux administration (Debian/Red Hat) - coaching in advanced Python/Plone/Javascript courses.
1998 – 2009 Software developer
Starting with applications to emit insurance policies in particular around Y2K, Euro transition and several mergers. Leading team around build policies templates. Eventually working on script automation, for sync updates and troubleshooting issues.
1997 (7 months) Software developer
Software for a drainpipe cutting machine
I have an history of open source contributions on projects such as: videojs, ramjet, hammerjs, reveal.js, Backbone.IO, Reveal.js, compoxure, bosco, posthtml and many others. I am also the author and maintainer of various open source projects, mainly in Javascript/Typescript. These are some of them (full list is on NPM):
I have contributed to many Plone plugins (Product.Maps, for example). And I was the main author of many others (now outdated).
Release manager and main contributor of Ploomcake, an opensource CMS derived from Plone. I contributed to many open source Python projects submitting patches
I have experience as public speaker. For example: microservices for the frontend (at the microservices meetup - London ), in multiple editions of "Linux day, Turin": "Python: how to become an hacker" (2009), "HTML5: The new frontiers of the web" (2010), "Hello Node.js" (2012). And many and many times in internal conferences. for example: "Do androids dream of electric duck?", "Understanding teams with Watership Down", "Data Structures in JS", "Everything you always wanted to know about web performance (but were afraid to ask)"
I wrote articles in Italian and English on both web (personal blog, RedominoLabs (now offline), Tes Blog (now offline)) and print (LinuxPro). I have contributed to the second edition of "The Definitive guide to Plone" (Apress 2009).
I managed courses and taught Python, Javascript and Web technologies for the Prometeo Association (Turin).
I have played guitar, bass guitar and flute since I was 11. I performed and currently perform in various different contexts (blues/jazz/folk etc).
I volunteer at the local parish church in the choir and as a catechist for both children (confirmation, alpha groups) and adults (RCIA, marriage preparation).
In the past, I worked as sound technician (about 40 live concerts between 1996 – 1998). I worked as a volunteer for special needs adult between 1998 - 2000.