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Paolo Cavanna

@paolocavanna

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Engineering leader focused on high-performance front-end systems and team growth.

Italy

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a leadership role where I can drive front-end performance, mentor engineers, improve delivery predictability, and optimize costs in a collaborative product-focused environment.

I am an engineering leader with deep front-end expertise who has led cross-functional teams to deliver high-traffic products while improving performance, delivery predictability, and cost efficiency. I have driven measurable outcomes — improving cycle time by 50%, cutting service expenses by 30%, and meeting strict SLOs for LCP, INP and CLS — while mentoring engineers and enabling promotions.

My background includes building front-end architectures and design system practices, optimizing build and runtime performance, and establishing DevOps/FinOps observability with Datadog. I prioritize developer experience, testing and code quality, and partnering with product to align roadmaps and improve predictability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Engineering Manager

Current

Kaufland E-Commerce

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years)

Led a cross-functional team of 5 engineers on the company’s main product (150k daily users), improved performance to meet SLOs and accelerated delivery, reducing cycle time by 50% and improving delivery predictability by 25%.

Team Leadership Performance Optimization SLOs FinOps Datadog Roadmapping Mentoring Hiring

Tech Lead / Senior Front End Engineer

Kaufland E-Commerce

Jun 2021 - Dec 2023 (2 years 6 months)

Led front-end engineering practices for isomorphic applications, established testing and code style standards, and contributed to the company design system while mentoring team members.

Frontend Development Isomorphic Apps Vue Testing Code Review Design Systems Mentoring Performance

Head of Front End Engineering

MotorK

May 2016 - May 2021 (5 years)

Led front-end engineering, designed an in-house SCSS framework and reduced CSS size by 30%, improved application performance 3x through build and structural optimizations, and introduced tooling that cut code review effort by ~25%.

SCSS BEM ITCSS Webpack Performance Optimization Linting

Senior Front End Engineer

Arc Worldwide

Apr 2015 - May 2016 (1 year 1 month)

Produced design mockups and prototypes to enhance user experience and site interactions, promoted front-end best practices and mentored junior developers.

Prototyping UX HTML CSS JavaScript Mentoring Frontend Best Practices