Leonardo Proietti

VP of Engineering

MyEdSpace

Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

Director of Software Engineering

MyTutorcouk

Aug 2022 - Aug 2025 (3 years 1 month)

Led a remote-first engineering organisation of 40+ through architectural and operating-model transformation. Drove a domain-centric operating model that aligned team boundaries with system boundaries, improving ownership and accountability, and championed a "you build it, you run it" architectural vision. Led the senior leadership alignment and time-boxed execution of a full re-platforming, delivering the new platform and membership product on schedule. Redefined engineering management roles, introduced metrics-driven feedback loops, and improved cycle time to production by 65%.

VP of Engineering

MotorK

Mar 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Led a 60+ person engineering organisation through organisational and architectural transformation, supporting the company through a successful 2021 IPO. Built the operating model around cross-functional, outcome-driven, autonomous teams in a remote-first environment. Introduced OKRs, data-driven capacity management, and a continuous improvement process – increasing throughput by ~15% and reducing defect rates by ~40%. Led the technical execution of cross-department enterprise projects, cutting average delivery time from ~12 months to ~3 months.

Head Of Development - Webspark Team

MotorK

Aug 2020 - Mar 2021 (8 months)

VP of Engineering

inSided

Jan 2019 - Jul 2020 (1 year 7 months)

Led engineering for a SaaS customer engagement platform, refocusing the product-engineering organisation on customer outcomes and Lean delivery. Reduced unresolved bugs by 70% and delivered 170% more customer-requested features, materially decreasing churn and contributing ~€1.2M in retained revenue. Cut AWS costs by €600k in year one (~40% reduction) through infrastructure optimisation. Introduced Kanban, data-driven decision-making, continuous refactoring, and a Monzo-style engineering career framework.

VP of Engineering

LendInvest

Jan 2017 - Dec 2018 (2 years)

Built and scaled the engineering function of a regulated FinTech from 3 to 25+, defining the team structure, operating model, and architectural foundations that supported the company's Series B (£17M) and subsequent IPO readiness. Led the design and delivery of a new microservices architecture (~35 services, mixed sync/async) underpinning the investor platform (£125M AUM) and lead management/underwriting integrations. Introduced Domain-Driven Design, CI/CD, TDD, and Docker/Kubernetes as engineering standards

Engineering Manager

LendInvest

Jan 2016 - Dec 2017 (2 years)

Lead Symfony Developer

LendInvest

Sep 2015 - Dec 2015 (4 months)

Software Engineer

LoveCrafts

Feb 2015 - Sep 2015 (8 months)

System Performance Enhancement: Developed an Elasticsearch-based Read Model, cutting API response times by 50%. Scalable Platform Development: Built high-performance features, improving end user experience

Freelancing (Italy)

freelance

Oct 2012 - Jan 2015 (2 years 4 months)

Technical Strategy & Agile Delivery: Provided DDD-based consulting for multiple projects. Open-Source Leadership: Co-founded PUGX, a PHP-focused vendor of open-source libraries.

CTO and co-founder

NetMeansNet snc

Jan 2005 - Oct 2012 (7 years 10 months)

Co-founded and grew the company by 300% within two years, expanding the team to 15 collaborators. Delivered projects for clients such as Publicis, Mercedes, and Renault, providing tailored technical solutions that aligned with business goals Always focused on achieving business results through the appropriate technology solution, we developed several tools to automate common tasks, such as a basic MVC framework and CMS generator. This way we been able to increase our ROI along with provide a better service to our clients. Technologies/Tools/Methodologies PHP, NmnMicroMvc, NmnAdminGenerator, Propel, symfony1, Symfony2, Doctrine2, PHPUnit

Product manager and ASP/Visual Basic developer

Saatchi Saatchi

Jan 2002 - Dec 2004 (3 years)

- Served as the Product Manager for the web department while also working as an ASP/Visual Basic developer. Assisted in organising workflows to increase ROI by collaborating with managers and creative teams on effective timeboxing strategies. Successfully contributed to projects for notable clients, including Columbia Tristar, Renault, and Teatri di Roma

ASP developer

Link

Oct 2000 - Dec 2001 (1 year 3 months)

- ASP developer on a couple of project.

ASP developer

Contractor

Jan 1998 - Dec 1999 (2 years)

- ASP developer for LIDS (Laboratorio di Informatica e Didattica della Storia) and others university contexts.

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