Nicola Armellini · Engineering Manager

I learned to scale systems by leading the people who build them.

Engineering Manager @ Everli - 13 years across e-commerce and marketplace

I started out writing the interface on my own, then built the teams, the migrations and the processes that made it grow. I've led cross-functional teams on a marketplace platform that serves thousands of orders a day.

13years of experience
10people in the largest team
2architectural migrations led

About

I started out as the sole frontend developer during an early-stage growth phase, building Everli's e-commerce interface from scratch. From there I went through two major architectural migrations and moved into leading people: I managed teams of 4-10 engineers across frontend, backend and mobile.

What interests me most is where technology and people meet: discussing architecture decisions with the people who'll maintain them, growing junior engineers into senior or management roles, and holding together product roadmap and system health.

I also teach from time to time: I like the moment when something technical clicks for someone else.

  • ManagementHiring · Mentoring · Performance reviews · Incident management
  • BackendTypeScript · NestJS · Node.js
  • DataMongoDB
  • FrontendVue.js
  • LegacyPHP · Laravel · MySQL
  • PracticesCI/CD · Code review · Agile

Journey

As Tech Lead I planned and carried out the full frontend migration from AngularJS to Vue.js/Nuxt, keeping the product running the whole way through, without blocking features already in progress.

Vue.jsNuxtAngularJS

I led technical hiring end-to-end with HR, ran performance review cycles and ongoing career conversations, growing engineers from junior to mid, from mid to senior, and one IC into an engineering manager role.

HiringMentoringCareer growth

I helped set up Everli's migration from a Laravel monolith to a Node.js-based architecture, drawing on deep knowledge of the legacy system to guide technical decisions and define the team's new best practices.

Node.jsLaravel