Engineering leadership
Guiding teams to delivery — planning, estimation and process, including AI adoption strategy and tooling integration.
Available for new engagements
Frontend architecture and engineering leadership for teams shipping complex web apps.
Quillabs is the independent consulting practice of Diego Malatesta — 20+ years of frontend depth and engineering leadership, helping companies modernise business-critical platforms and build high-performing teams.
Engagements I take on.
01 / SERVICESFrontend architecture & modernisation
React / Next.js, complete-rewrite guidance and architecture, design systems, performance, and AI-powered interfaces.
AI integration & agentic workflows
Embedding LLM-powered features into web products, designing agentic pipelines, and guiding pragmatic AI adoption.
Technical advisory
Solution architecture, technology and tooling decisions, proofs of concept, and AI-readiness assessment.
Senior hands-on development
Complex web applications, performance optimisation, and LLM-backed feature development.
Team coaching & agile practice
Mentoring engineers and establishing reliable, repeatable delivery processes.
Selected work.
02 / WORKQuillabs · Frontend Architecture Consultant
Independent frontend architecture & engineering leadership
2026 — presentQuillabs is my independent practice — 20+ years of frontend architecture and engineering leadership offered as a fully-remote consulting engagement. I set frontend direction, lead delivery across multiple teams, guide legacy modernisation and rewrites, and advise product and leadership on technology, planning and resourcing.
Next.jsReactTypeScriptViteNX MonorepoTanStack Suite
The Agora Companies · Engineering Lead
Full rewrite of two business-critical platforms
2020 — 2026Architected and delivered the complete rewrite of two legacy applications spanning marketing, content management and e-commerce — owning architecture, planning, estimation and development throughout, plus proofs of concept to guide future product direction. Now continuing as consulting engineering lead across multiple teams.
Next.jsReactTypeScriptContentfulVercelNX Monorepo
888 Spectate / BetBright · Senior Dev
High-traffic betting platform → SPA + performance
2015 — 2020Led the migration of a high-traffic sports-betting and casino platform from a legacy app to a Single Page Application, then joined a dedicated performance-optimisation team as one of the company’s lead frontend developers. Delivered in SCRUM throughout.
ReactJavaScriptSASSWebpackJestPHP5
Axura · Web Developer
Client websites & an internal agency CMS
2011 — 2014Built client websites, mainly WordPress-based, and an internal content management system used by two of the agency’s main clients.
WordPressPHP5HTML5CSS3JavaScript
Shipped for clients.
03 / PORTFOLIO
Shipped · 2026
Booking & client management
Pet Grooming Admin
An admin platform for an independent pet-grooming salon. The owner books appointments and sees them on a calendar, keeps records for each client and their pets — dogs and cats — and tracks the actual cost of every appointment. It replaced a tangle of spreadsheets and a paper diary with a single live view of the day.
ReactTypeScriptViteNitroDrizzlePostgresTanStack QueryNode.jsTailwind CSSDaisyUIZodReact Compiler
Experience.
04 / TIMELINEJAN 2026 — NOW
Software Engineering Consultant
Quillabs · RemoteIndependent consulting engagement with The Agora Companies — frontend architecture, multi-team delivery leadership and technical advisory to product and leadership.
JUL 2020 — DEC 2025
Principal Engineer → Engineering Lead
APSI / The Agora Companies · IrelandLed multiple teams, defined frontend architecture, drove agile practice; delivered two complete legacy rewrites and mentored engineers across the department.
JUL 2015 — JUL 2020
Senior Software Developer
888 Spectate / BetBright · DublinSenior frontend on a high-traffic betting & casino platform; led the SPA migration and joined the lead performance-optimisation team.
JAN 2015 — JUN 2015
Web Developer
b-sm@rk · DublinFrontend on the startup’s core reactions-widget product (similar to Facebook’s Like button) and its company websites.
JUN 2011 — DEC 2014
Web Developer
Axura · Vimercate, ItalyBuilt client websites, mainly WordPress-based, and an internal CMS used by two of the agency’s main clients.
2004 — 2011
Developer
Motta OnLine / Structural Coating · ItalyEditorial CMS and aggregation web app; earlier, PLC and PC software for plasma-etching systems.
Core expertise.
05 / STACKFrontend
ReactNext.jsVue.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptHTML5CSS3 / Tailwind
Tooling & platforms
ViteWebpackVitest / JestPNPM / BunVercelContentfulGit
AI & agentic
LLM API integrationAgentic workflowsClaude CodeCursorPrompt engineeringRAG features
Leadership
Eng. managementMentoringAgile / SCRUMSolution architecturePlanning & estimation
20+
years
100%
remote
05 / ABOUT
Two decades shipping the web — from PHP CMSs to AI-powered interfaces.
I'm Diego Malatesta. I help companies ship and modernise complex web applications and build high-performing engineering teams — combining hands-on technical depth with the leadership experience to steer strategy, planning and delivery.
My background spans principal-engineer and engineering-lead roles at product companies in Ireland and Italy, including full rewrites of business-critical platforms across e-commerce, content management and online gaming.
Available for new engagements
Have a platform to modernise, or a team to level up?
[email protected]quillabs.net