Luca Cipriani
VP of Engineering
Salary / Daily rate
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Mobility: London, Paris, ...
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
VP of Engineering and OKR coach with 10+ years scaling tech teams and cloud infrastructure. Led 90+ distributed developers at Jimdo and 35+ at Arduino, architected AWS solutions, and implemented OKR frameworks driving strategic growth. Expert in engineering leadership, cloud architecture, and business strategy alignment.
Work experience
Head of Strategy
Italia non profitFreelance
Jul 2022 - Present
4 years 4 months
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
OKR Coach - Founder
OKR BusinessFreelance
Apr 2020 - Present
6 years 7 months
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
• Implemented OKR framework for companies, driving strategic focus and employee growth. • Advised on OKR adoption and improvement, leading to increased company success. • Facilitated companies strategy alignment and growth.
Senior Technical Advisor
Sep 2019 - Present
7 years 2 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Technical advisor for market and business research. I give insights to VC and Investors about the best technical tools and companies in the market, and how they operate. I collaborate with the following Business Research Companies GLG Software Alpha Sights Software Club Tegus
Jimdo
Feb 2021 - Present
5 years 9 months
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
VP of Engineering
May 2024 - Present
2 years 6 months
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Managing the execution of the Engineering strategy of the organization, working closely with the Heads of Engineering and Product leaders to deliver high-quality web products. I actively contribute to shape the strategy of Jimdo to become the one-stop option to get started small and micro-businesses. Working together with the platform and product part of the company to combine the effort and have a unified technological system. Helping Heads of Engineering to create a strong management team.
Head of Engineering (Architecture)
Nov 2022 - May 2024
1 year 7 months
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Head of Architecture with a focus on Cloud technologies. Leading the Engineering Excellence group, composed of 5 different teams of senior and staff engineers. We are ensuring technical excellence in every piece of our products.
Engineering Manager
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 11 months
Hamburg, Germany
Engineering Manager for the Website Builder Group, composed by 3 product teams. I focus on providing huge value to the customers by creating high-quality products, fast, while having fun and profit. Agile Frameworks management and mentoring (SCRUM). Data Analysis and identification of KPIs, collaborating with the Product Manager and the Team to identify and deliver our OKRs. Helping the team with A/B testing analysis and decision making. UX Design and collaboration. Large-scale deployments. Business alignment and focus on customer value. Growing the team skillset by using the OKR framework.
CIO, Engineering Manager
Arduino
Oct 2014 - Dec 2020
6 years 3 months
Turin Area, Italy
Engineering Manager of a distributed team of 25 developers (direct reporting, I was responsible for building the team too). Using OKRs to grow the team skills and to deliver value to the company. Owner of the web services of all the Arduino companies, and Product Manager of SaaS and IoT products (including Arduino Create). Architecture design, management, monitoring and optimization of AWS infrastructure. I started in the former Arduino Italian company named Officine Arduino as a DevOps Engineer in the period Nov. 2014 - Mar. 2017. DevOps culture promoter. Mentoring of developers. REST API design and implementation.
Contract Professor
Università degli Studi di Torino
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
2 months
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Teaching the basics of IoT Development, running a workshop about designing, and creating an IoT product. Letting the students know the most popular IoT services available on the market.
Senior System (DevOps) Engineer
Cloud9IDE
Jan 2012 - Oct 2014
2 years 10 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Architecture design, management monitoring and optimization of AWS infrastructure. Design of High Availability architecture over different AWS Regions. Advanced VPC setup and security configurations. Automatic deployment. Networking troubleshooting.
Sr. Linux System Engineer
PeopleBrowsr Inc.
May 2012 - Oct 2012
6 months
Designing and implementing architectures to serve high load websites. Managing, implementing and designing a scalable cloud architecture on our servers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, KVM, Fabric and Ansible. Troubleshooting of performance and network issues.
System Administrator and developer
Redomino S.r.l.
Feb 2010 - May 2012
2 years 4 months
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Installation, configuration, management and monitoring of our Physical and Virtual Servers (80). Advanced projecting and configuration of Zope/Plone architecture. Software developer for system administration. Teacher in system administration for GNU/Linux server and Zope/Plone environment. Author of a series of nine articles about System Administration with "Ubuntu Server Edition". Published by Linux Pro magazine (Italian edition by Sprea editor). A special edition of the magazine with all the articles was published in December 2010.
System Administrator
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA
Sep 2009 - Mar 2010
7 months
Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy
Co-teacher of an advanced GNU/Linux course in the professional ICT school "Enrico della Valle" for Engineering employees. System administrator in a software project on as/400, db2 and Websphere Application Server architecture. Documentation editor.
Education
Goldsmiths, University of London
Bachelor of Science - BS
2020 - Present
6 years 8 months
Università degli Studi di Torino
2016 - 2019
4 years
Politecnico di Torino
Student
2010 - 2014
5 years
Sapienza Università di Roma
Student
2004 - 2009
6 years