Portrait of Tomas Della Vedova
Engineering manager · Open source

Tomas
Della Vedova

@delvedor

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.

I lead teams that build trustworthy systems.

I am a Senior Engineering Manager at Elastic, leading a global team across 9 time zones. We own authentication, authorization, and the user systems that handle tens of thousands of requests per minute.

My focus is building high-performing teams where everyone contributes their best work. I create inclusive environments that bring out diverse perspectives and better solutions, and I lean on a progress over perfection mindset to ship improvements that actually matter to people.

Balancing technical needs with thoughtful leadership, we build robust security solutions that scale without compromising quality or team wellbeing.

I build developer tooling I would want to use.

I love open source and care a lot about performance and developer experience. I am one of the lead maintainers of Fastify, a fast web framework for Node.js, and I contribute to plenty of other projects too.

I enjoy speaking at conferences.

Over the past years I have spoken at FullStackCon in London, Nordic.js in Stockholm, Codemotion in Milan, WebExpo in Prague, and other great conferences and meetups around Europe.

The handbook

A field guide to working with me

How I manage, how I communicate, how I give feedback, and a few honest quirks worth knowing up front.

Read the handbook

Say hello.

Drop me a message anywhere below. You can find me almost everywhere as @delvedor.