Paolo Ragone
Chief Technology Officer at Trade Me
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolPaolo Ragone is an energetic Chief Technology Officer with over 20 years of software development experience and a decade of senior technology leadership across marketplaces, travel, and classifieds. He has led large-scale architectures serving hundreds of millions of page views and millions of monthly users, translating technical trade-offs into business strategy as part of executive leadership teams. Known for building and scaling high-performing, highly engaged engineering organizations (eNPS > 85), he combines hands-on backend experience with people-first management and agile delivery. Paolo has a track record of rapid platform migrations and product innovations—such as trust & safety systems and duplicate-detection engines—that materially improved UX, SEO and monetization. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Strapi, focusing on backend reliability and maintenance, reflecting a continued commitment to developer-first tooling. With an MBA and dual technical degrees, he blends rigorous technical depth with commercial and operational insight.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree Mathematics, Licentiate degree Mathematics at Universidad Metropolitana (VE)Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General at IE Business School
English, Spanish, Italian, French
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
web-application10
findbugs10
nodejs10
strapi10
fixest10
http9
api9
content-management8
cms8
content-management-system8
koa7
typescripts6
php6
memcached6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
strapi/strapi
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Paolo primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor improvements within the Strapi framework. Their work focused on addressing issues in the users-permissions plugin and ensuring correct query building for providers. They also updated dependencies, including knex, and made small adjustments related to code style and build processes. The contributions suggest a focus on maintaining the backend functionality of the CMS.
cmsdashboardcontent-management-systemheadlessjavascript
hipages/inceptum-cqrs
May 2017 - Aug 2018
Extension to Inceptum to build CQRS apps
Contributions:7 PRs, 59 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 3 months
dddevent-sourcingcqrs
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