Milan, Lombardy, Italy
VP of Engineering with 20+ years of experience, including 12+ years in Global Tech Organizations (eBay, Adevinta). Experienced in managing M&A transitions and stabilizing engineering departments in complex contexts. Manager of Managers with full Budget accountability (multi-million Euro budget CAPEX/OPEX), responsible for aligning a 70+ FTE organization with local and international business goals.
- ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP: Leading a 70+ person organization (Manager of Managers), driving talent strategy and workforce planning to support business continuity. Implemented strategic initiatives to secure key capabilities and ensure sustained delivery capacity during organizational evolution. - FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE: Managing engineering budget (CAPEX/OPEX) and strategic workforce planning. Partnering with Finance and HR to ensure accurate forecasting, efficient resource allocation, and alignment with corporate financial targets. - STRATEGIC BUSINESS ALIGNMENT: Co-defining shared OKRs and Technical KPIs with Product and Executive leadership, bridging the gap between technical initiatives and business goals to ensure engineering output drives measurable value. - PROGRAM OVERSIGHT: Serving on the Strategic Localization Steering Committee to oversee critical deliverables and ensure alignment between local teams and international stakeholders. - ENGINEERING CULTURE: Tailoring the global Dual-Track Career Ladder to clarify growth paths and adopting a servant-leadership model, empowering managers with full delivery ownership and ensuring Blameless Post-Mortems.
- GROUP LEADERSHIP & OPERATIONS: Managed a strategic engineering group of 3 Teams (including the critical Automobile vertical) comprising 25 Engineers and 3 Engineering Managers, ensuring operational alignment and delivery consistency across the business unit (Acting Lead since May 2022). - TECHNICAL STRATEGY & ROADMAP: Defined technical strategy & roadmap in close partnership with the Head of Engineering and Head of Architecture, identifying critical architectural interventions to reduce technical debt and support business scalability. - POST-ACQUISITION INTEGRATION: Led the critical post-acquisition integration of Automobile.it, stabilizing operations during a high-attrition phase by rebuilding the team through strategic hiring and consultancy support. - GLOBAL CLOUD MIGRATION: Spearheaded the Global Cloud Migration (Project Nimbus), leading the architectural simplification and migration to AWS, achieving a 30% reduction in platform complexity and slashing production incidents by 90%. - LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT & CULTURE: Mentored Engineering Managers & Tech Leads to define professional goals aligned with company needs, fostering a collaborative and empowered team culture.
System Administrator ( Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Solaris ). - Systems design. - Performance Tuning. - Software configuration, maintenance and tuning - Network Analysis - Analysis and problem solving - Scripting and programming for automated procedures and system tools. - Design and Development of Query Spam Countermeasures Software - Configuration Automation - Design and Development of Web Application Performance Monitor Skill: Apache httpd, Nginx, Tomcat, Jboss, MYSQL, OpenSSH, Bind, Samba, NFS, ProFTPd, OpenLDAP, RSA Secure-ID, Linux-HA Heartbeat, Corosync, Subversion, Nagios, SNMP, Puppet, Spacewalk, Squid, Memcache, Varnish, Postgresql.
Combined role managing the B2C Product Cluster while leading a critical company-wide strategic program. - STRATEGIC PROGRAM LEADERSHIP: Led the "Strategic Localization Program" for Italy, coordinating 46 sub-projects and ensuring alignment with Global Teams across 10 markets. Successfully steered the program to on-time delivery. - RESOURCE SCALING: Managed the strategic onboarding of contingent workers to accelerate roadmap execution without disrupting internal engineering culture. - OPERATIONAL CONTINUITY: Maintained leadership of the B2C Product Cluster (3 Teams), ensuring zero impact on business-critical deliveries during the program execution. - EXECUTIVE REPORTING: Managed governance and reporting for C-Level stakeholders and Global Leadership.
Led 2 infrastructure engineers on design, maintain, and ensure reliability of the kijiji.it and automobile.it platforms (part of eBay Classifieds Group). - Migrated from a legacy approach of physical servers to internal cloud based on OpenStack, utilizing infrastructure as code with HashiCorp Terraform resulting in a reduction of maintenance time by 80%. - Designed and implemented a PaaS platform based on Mesos, collaborating with the product engineering team on the migration, resulting in a 30% reduction in resource usage. - Redesigned, with the product engineering team, the CI/CD and deployment flow and strategy increasing the number of releases per week from 1 to up to 50. - Improved monitoring and metric collection Introducing Prometheus and ElasticStack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for logging purposes leading to a reduction of 50% of the Mean time to Recover compared to the previous setup.