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Simone Andreani

Simone Andreani

Senior Engineering Manager & Tech Lead

Italy, IT
Italian, English

Background


About

About

Senior Engineering Manager & Tech Lead with 10+ years of experience building and evolving scalable systems across web and mobile platforms. Currently leading a cross-functional Growth team at ProntoPro (Homerun Technologies), operating on high-traffic systems under real-world constraints.

Strong focus on system design trade-offs, reliability, and architectural evolution: from monolithic legacy systems to distributed, resilient services. Combines hands-on technical depth with people leadership, driving clarity, ownership, and high engineering standards across teams and systems.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Engineering Manager & Tech Lead, ProntoPro / Homerun Technologies

    Jan, 2026 - Present

    Leading a cross-functional Growth team responsible for acquisition systems and high-traffic SEO pages in a multi-country SaaS platform, with ownership across frontend and backend systems.

    • Led evolution of platform architecture from monolithic legacy system (single point of failure) to distributed SSR services behind a CDN, improving scalability and fault isolation

    • Handled production incident caused by DDoS overwhelming legacy system, identifying architectural limitations and driving resilience improvements

    • Introduced data replication via sync jobs to decouple from upstream dependencies, improving reliability and failure isolation

    • Balanced trade-offs between data freshness and system cost for dynamic content generation, optimizing recomputation strategies

    • Clarified service boundaries and ownership across ambiguous product domains, reducing cross-team friction and improving maintainability

    • Drove removal of cross-team dependencies by decommissioning a shared location service, improving team autonomy and ownership clarity

    • Implemented monitoring and alerting across SSR infrastructure using CloudWatch and Datadog, improving observability and incident response

    • Led and mentored a cross-functional team (BE, FE, QA, DE, DA), setting technical direction while fostering ownership and high engineering standards

    • Actively contributed to architectural decisions and code when needed to unblock the team and ensure technical quality

  • Engineering Manager & Tech Lead, ProntoPro / Homerun Technologies

    Jan, 2023 - Dec, 20252 years 11 months

    Led a distributed team working on high-scale web systems, focusing on performance, architectural evolution, and experimentation infrastructure.

    • Led a senior-heavy team in a remote-first environment, enabling high autonomy and ownership

    • Defined and executed technical strategy across frontend and backend layers of acquisition systems

    • Improved latency and system performance through CDN integration (CloudFront) and request flow optimization

    • Contributed to microservices evolution supporting scalability and independent deployments

    • Led cross-team initiatives aligning engineering, product, and marketing stakeholders

    • Balanced rapid experimentation with long-term system maintainability

  • Frontend Staff Engineer, ProntoPro

    Feb, 2022 - Jan, 202311 months

    • Led frontend platform improvements focusing on performance, maintainability, and developer experience

    • Acted as senior technical contributor while transitioning into engineering management

    • Mentored engineers and drove adoption of engineering best practices

  • Technical Lead (React Native), myCicero (MooneyGo)

    Apr, 2019 - Jan, 20222 years 9 months

    Led development of mobile applications used at national scale in the public transportation domain.

    • Led an international team building high-performance mobile applications used by millions

    • Designed architecture for a white-label mobile platform supporting multiple clients

    • Contributed to migration from monolithic to microservices-based backend systems

    • Developed performance-critical mobile features and native modules across iOS and Android

  • Senior Mobile & Frontend Developer, Pluservice

    Feb, 2015 - Mar, 20194 years 1 month

    • Designed and built mobile systems integrating with RESTful backend services

    • Mentored junior engineers and contributed to architectural decisions

    • Delivered production systems in transportation and mobility domains

  • Fullstack & Mobile Developer, Xplace

    Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20151 year

    • Developed full-stack applications and REST APIs using PHP frameworks

    • Built modular and reusable architectures across web and mobile platforms

Skills

Skills

  • Engineering Leadership

    Team Leadership

    Mentorship

    Hiring

    Performance Management

    Cross-functional Alignment

  • Systems & Architecture

    Distributed Systems

    Microservices

    Scalability

    Reliability

    System Design

    Performance Optimization

  • Backend & Infrastructure

    Node.js

    APIs

    AWS

    CloudFront

    CDK

    Observability

  • Frontend Platform

    React

    Next.js

    TypeScript

    Web Performance

  • Practices

    CI/CD

    Monitoring

    Experimentation

    A/B Testing

    Agile

Education

Education

  • Computer Engineering, , Università Politecnica delle Marche

    Jan, 2007 - Jan, 2010