Niccolò Mineo

Rome, Italy | niccolo.mineo@gmail.com | +39 320 241 2985 | linkedin.com/in/niccolomineo | niccolomineo.com

Summary

Product Delivery Lead with 20+ years of experience delivering digital products across complex environments. Grounded in philosophical aesthetics, I combine product strategy, UX, and technical expertise to turn business needs into cohesive digital experiences. My background in digital media, development, and delivery enables informed end-to-end decisions with an uncompromised focus on quality and design.

Education

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (Online)

    Professional Certificate, Human-Computer Interaction | 2026

  • Harvard Online

    Professional Certificate, Computer Science for Web Programming | 2023

  • The London School of Journalism

    Postgraduate Diploma, Journalism | 2011

  • Sapienza Università di Roma

    Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy | 2010

Experience

  • Product Delivery Lead

    20tab | 2019 - Present

    • Product Strategy & Scope: Translate business goals into functional requirements, drive discovery and UX decisions in Agile teams, and turn user pain points into features and new business.
    • Cross-Border Leadership & Delivery: Align cross-functional Italy-U.S. teams; streamline delivery by removing bottlenecks, defining responsibilities and building accountability.
    • Hands-on Engineering: Architect and maintain lean Python/Django back-end services and JavaScript interfaces, optimizing for performance, reliability and cost.

  • Web Project Lead

    Reverse | 2016 - 2019

    • Team & Delivery Leadership: Coordinated a distributed engineering team, modernized workflows and mentored developers for reliable delivery against project objectives.
    • Software Engineering: Built and maintained web platforms for institutional and academic clients, with reusable front-end and back-end libraries that accelerated delivery.

  • Web Project Lead

    European Parliament | 2015 - 2016

    • Resource & Cost Optimization: Restructured vendor workflows and optimized internal resources, reducing contractor spend by 88%.
    • Product Operations & Stakeholder Management: Orchestrated editorial, design and IT stakeholders for public websites and newsletters; managed CMS release schedules and compliance.
    • Data-Driven UX: Redesigned key user journeys from analytics data, reducing bounce rates and improving engagement.

  • Web Coordinator

    European Parliament, Europol, European Central Bank | 2013 - 2014

    • Large-Scale Platform Relaunches: Coordinated IT and editorial teams through digital infrastructure overhauls across European institutions.
    • Digital Asset Operations: Supervised multi-agency workflows for audiovisual and editorial web projects.

  • Web Designer & Content Manager

    Regione Emilia-Romagna | 2008 - 2013

    • Digital Systems Development: Designed, built and maintained regional web platforms, custom CRM systems and multimedia assets.
    • Editorial Operations: Managed end-to-end digital publishing pipelines and content management strategy.

  • Founder & Digital Specialist

    Freelance & Agency Engagements | 2001 - 2008

    • Entrepreneurship: Founded and scaled Unprogged.com, an online music publication, running its editorial strategy, technical architecture and operations.
    • End-to-End Execution: Delivered custom digital solutions, CRM systems and web applications, from design and development through to content.

Projects

  • Coolr Keyboard-first menu bar eyedropper for designers and developers.
  • Default Dark+ IntelliJ Theme VS Code Darcula-inspired theme with 10,000+ installs.
  • Django ADR Django-native decision log for software architecture.
  • Django Temporal Inputs Native HTML5 temporal input widgets for Django.
  • Pre-commit Hooks Environment variable and version consistency checks.

Technical skills

  • Product Management & Discovery Product discovery; user needs and pain points; requirements analysis; feature definition; functional and technical specifications; UX decision-making; product quality and coherence.
  • Product Delivery & Leadership Agile and Scrum environments; cross-functional team coordination; stakeholder management; remote teams; delivery planning; process improvement; accountability and ownership; delivery documentation; Jira; Confluence; Taiga.
  • UX & Design User-centered design; UX flows; usability; prototyping and validation; human-computer interaction (HCI); collaboration with designers, editors and content teams; Figma.
  • Digital Product & Web Website governance and lifecycle management; CMS platforms; editorial workflows; content quality; publishing processes; web analytics; continuous improvement.
  • Technical Python; Django; REST APIs; JavaScript; React; HTMX; HTML; CSS; PostgreSQL; Docker; CI/CD; Git; DevOps fundamentals.

Languages

  • Italian Native
  • English C1
  • French B1

Additional

  • Open Source Django and open-source contributor.
  • Mentorship Coaching at 20tab, Django Girls and Minerva Sapiens Center for Advanced Training.
  • Writing Publisher of technical features and tutorials.
  • Book Contributor to How to Create Innovation (2021).