Matteo Merola is a Zurich-based engineering leader with 12 years of experience scaling cross-functional teams and building production software across retail, aviation, and energy at IKEA, KLM, and Shell. He blends hands-on engineering (from Vue front-end components to backend systems at bunq) with people-first management, having led teams of 40+ and mentored engineering managers to improve delivery and technical craft. As a founder of a SaaS aimed at engineering managers and an active open-source contributor (notably the vue-beautiful-chat component), he pairs product sensibility with startup discipline inside large enterprises. Matteo’s background in AI, big data, and logistics optimization informs pragmatic solutions for forecasting, replenishment and operational efficiency. He now helps Zurich companies grow their engineering organizations, focusing on motivation, architecture health and measurable impact.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Management and Information Technology, Master’s Degree, Management and Information Technology at Università degli Studi di Salerno
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Molise
Spanish, English, Italian, Turkish, French, German
A simple and beautiful Vue chat component backend agnostic, fully customisable and extendable.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:5 releases, 10 reviews, 157 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matteo primarily focused on the front-end development of the Vue Beautiful Chat component. Their contributions involved adding features, performing final touches, and refining the demo. The commits include changes to the main structure and the dist/index.js file, indicating work on the core components of the chat interface. The user also addressed specific issues and added a typing indicator, improving the user experience.
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Matteo Merola - Business Analyst at Inter IKEA Group