Luciano Panaro

Experience

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  Latch

  Chief Technology Officer

  Jun 2023 - Feb 2024

  Latch makes spaces better places to live, work, and visit. Apartment buildings haven’t changed in decades. People spend thousands of dollars every month for an experience that is outdated, inconvenient, analog, impersonal and leaves a lot to be desired.

  • Merged two distinct organizations (HDW + Latch)
  • Run cost optimization efforts
  • Managed +80 engineers
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  Honest Day's Work

  Chief Technology Officer

  May 2022 - Jun 2023

  (Merged with Latch in 2023) HDW's mission is to enable independence through technology. Our focus is on empowering autonomous workers, providing them with the tools they need to thrive independently. By optimizing non-core workflows and processes, HDW assists these professionals in expanding their businesses and achieving greater success.

  • Built the product and team from the ground up
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  Visualsitemaps

  Co-Founder & CTO

  Apr 2018 - Apr 2020

  VisualSitemaps automatically generate beautiful visual sitemaps + high-resolution screenshots of any site or web-app, making it fast and easy to perform in-depth site audits for UI, UX, SEO, and marketing research.

  • Bootstrapped the project
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  Ring

  Chief Software Architect

  Mar 2013 - Apr 2015

  Since its founding in 2013, Ring has been on a mission to make neighborhoods safer. From the first-ever video doorbell, to the award-winning DIY Ring Alarm system, Ring’s smart home security product line, as well as the Neighbors app, offer users affordable whole-home and neighborhood security. At Ring, we are committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and effective for everyone -- while working hard to bring communities together. Ring is an Amazon company. For more information, visit www.ring.com. With Ring, you’re always home. I worked on Ring (formerly DoorBot) as a cofounder of Edison Junior, its incubator. My responsibilities included planning, hiring and managing Ring's cloud and mobile development team (30 engineers). The role also involved working on the design of the backend services architecture (and initial implementation), coming up with schedules and acting as a stakeholder for the development teams.

  • Founding member
  • Planned, hired and managed the frontend, backend and mobile development teams
  • Designed the backend services architecture
  • Managed the project transition and refactoring from DoorBot to Ring