Simone Potenza
Head Of Engineering at Budget Thuis
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSimone Potenza is a Head of Engineering based in Rotterdam with 11 years of experience building product-led, scalable engineering organisations across marketplaces, fintech and EV charging. He has repeatedly transformed teams and platforms—driving cloud migrations, CI/CD and test automation, feature-flagging, and developer experience improvements—to shift cultures from feature factories to outcome-driven product teams. At HousingAnywhere and Kamernet he scaled engineering from dozens to hundreds, cut costs through cloud and tooling consolidation, and raised deployment cadence and reliability. As a hands-on leader and former co-founder and Staff Engineer, he blends architecture and delivery experience (NodeJS, React, Go, Kubernetes) with strategic CTO-level advising for startups. He’s actively exploring how AI can boost team productivity, and is known for pragmatic rearchitecting of complex billing and marketplace systems to unlock new revenue and operational clarity.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Master in Computer Science, Software Engineering at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Master Computer Sciences, Software Engineering, Master Computer Sciences, Software Engineering at Università degli Studi dell'AquilaBachelor Exchange, Computer Science, Bachelor Exchange, Computer Science at University College Dublin
English, Italian
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Github Skills (200)
react-redux10
form-validation10
backend10
backend-framework10
recycle10
api10
google-maps-javascript-api10
redux-form10
react-styleguidist10
redux10
react10
complexity10
javascript9
validation9
backend-api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Konnektid/konnektid-js-utils
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 34 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 months
javascript
rewop/rewop.nvim
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
My nvim configuration
Contributions:34 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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