Hi, I'm Christian 🇮🇹

Reliable Director of Technology_ with 8+ years of experience in the startup environment developing software, leading and hiring developers.

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What I can do.

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Build your product

Making my hands dirty writing MVP, production-quality and easy to test code, understanding and designing of large, complex codebases and architectures.
JavaScript, Typescript Expert developing APIs with Node.js connected to SQL or NoSQL database, building client-side application with React.js and React-Native.

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Lead your team

Lead development teams composed by 5-10 people, and be responsible for the quality of its technical deliverables.
I believe in "lead by example" where there is no "me" but only "us".

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Grow your organisation

Helping you do technical roadmaps to move it to the future state of your digital product and establishing a technical vision with the development team and turn it into reality.

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Coaching

I'll unlock your team’s potential to maximise their own performance. Helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

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Grow your team

Helping you to hire a development team interviewing and verifying the candidate competences. I've more than 6 years of experience on interviewing developers and tech leads and nobody knows better a developer like another developer.

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Not exactly sure what you need?

Let’s chat. If I can’t help you, I’ll do my best to connect you with someone who can.

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About.

I'm the kind of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But guess what? I know how to find the answer and I will find it.
I'm a super funny guy who is passionate about his job. Curiosity is my favourite word and I do my best to grow as a person and as a professional. Work with me it's not just business, but it is fun too. 😃

Experience.

Lead Developer -> Engineering Manager -> Director of Technology

finleap from 2017 to 2021

Converting promising business ideas to sustainable products, making tech decisions (architecture, tech stack, etc...) build new ventures in finleap’s ecosystem, managing and contributing to the build phase of the service/product. Creating the right tech team for each new venture hunting and interviewing candidates.

Achievements

  • Brought to Italy SwitchKit, a product enabling approx 200k payment account switches every year
  • Coordinated the setup, hired the development team, contributed to the development and design the architecture of SwitchKit.
  • Lead and contributed to internal R&D department to create new products for the Italian Market.
  • Coordinated the setup, hired the development team, contributed to the development and design the architecture of the MVP and oversaw the growth of LendBox, a Startup born to revolutionise the salary backed loans Market and generating over 1M€ during its first year live, keeping a positive turnover growth and sustainable cash flow during Covid-19 Crisis in 2020
  • Lead and hired the front end development team of Infinitec Solutions.
  • Took part in the setup of Beesy, a finleap Venture focused on SME Banking, later merged into Penta during its acquisition process
#fintech #web

Lead Frontend Developer

iGenius AI from 2016 to 2017

Developing and designing from scratch crystal, the main software to crawl and deliver real-time data to users using Javascript and Google Cloud services. I contribute to create the right tech team to grow the product, hunting and interviewing candidates.

Achievements

  • Lead and shipped successfully crystal.io MVP in 5 months and Brought to production in 1 year
  • Hire the development team from 7 to 20 developers.
#web #mobile #ai #data

Mobile/Web Frontend Developer

Lutech from 2014 to 2016

Research, design and development of Mobile Hybrid Application with web technologies.

Achievements

  • Built and published C2C iOS and Android Hybrid mobile application for GiGroup S.p.A
  • Built and published MyPaderno iOS and Android Hybrid mobile application for the Paderno Dugnano's city hall
#consultant #web #mobile

Contact.

Feel free to contact me if you need help.
I'm open to discuss your needs and find the right solution with you.

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