Niccolò Zapponi
Deployment Strategist
London, England, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolNiccolò Zapponi is a deployment strategist and product leader with eight years of experience helping enterprises transform operations with AI agents and strategic product initiatives. He has led product and go-to-market efforts across B2B and enterprise at companies including Tipalti, Redpin and Salesforce, where he scaled Quip's EMEA revenue tenfold and built developer-facing integrations. Trained as an aeronautical engineer at the University of Southampton and a former ESA trainee, he combines systems-thinking from aerospace with hands-on security and backend experience—evidenced by contributions to the pyicloud project improving 2FA, error handling and robustness. Based in London, he blends technical depth, product strategy and deployment-focused delivery to turn emerging technologies into measurable business value.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Aeronautics & Astronautics, MEng Aeronautics & Astronautics at University of Southampton
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
python10
apidoc10
user-authentication10
authentication10
security10
api10
error-handling10
session-management9
logging9
html6
facebook-ios-sdk6
cocoa-touch6
google-maps-api6
decoupling6
google-maps6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
picklepete/pyicloud
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
A Python + iCloud wrapper to access iPhone and Calendar data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 18 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Niccolò significantly contributed to enhancing the security and functionality of the `pyicloud` library. Their work included implementing support for two-factor authentication (2FA), which involved modifying core authentication logic and session management. Furthermore, the user improved error handling, added retry mechanisms for specific HTTP status codes, and updated logging levels to provide more informative debugging output. These changes reflect a focus on improving the robustness and user experience of the library.
icloudiphonepython
nzapponi/quip-apps
Feb 2018 - Sep 2021
Quip Live Apps API for creating applications in Quip documents.
Contributions:10 pushes, 7 tags in 3 years 7 months
apireactquip
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