Stefano Zanella
Head Of Engineering at trana
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolStefano Zanella is a Head of Engineering based in Berlin with 13 years of experience designing teams and scaling web products through pragmatic, non-dogmatic application of Kanban and Scrum. He blends hands-on engineering (Ruby, DevOps and system administration) with organisational design—coaching individuals, structuring cross-team collaboration, and introducing delivery metrics to improve predictability and performance. Formerly leading engineering at trana, SolarisBank and Marley Spoon, he has repeatedly grown teams, optimized hiring pipelines, and reworked planning and onboarding to reduce variability and boost happiness. A contributor to the ruby-install project, he improves developer tooling and testing reliability, reflecting his attention to maintainability and automation. Known for candid, non-violent communication and systems thinking, he pairs technical depth with budget and talent management to scale both platform and people.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di PadovaPerito Industriale Informatico Computer science, Perito Industriale Informatico Computer science at ITIS Zuccante
English, German, Italian
Github Skills (13)
ruby10
bash-shell10
script10
bash10
installer10
installers10
testing10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
git8
devops8
curl8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
postmodern/ruby-install
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Installs Ruby, JRuby, TruffleRuby, or mruby
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily focused on enhancing the `ruby-install` utility. Their contributions included implementing new options like `--no-reinstall` and `--no-update` to control installation behavior, such as skipping reinstallation or package updates. The user also improved testing by incorporating more robust checks for Ruby presence and refactoring the testing suite, along with allowing the use of curl to follow redirects. These changes improve the utility's flexibility, maintainability, and reliability.
installerrubymrubyrubiniussketchup
stefanozanella/minitest-filesystem
Jun 2013 - Mar 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 10 months
testingcontentsfilesystemminitest
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