Portfolio 🧳
05.05.2023
Introducing my portfolio
I’m Michele Brissoni 🚀 — Tech Advisor, Fractional CTO, and Board-Level Strategist.
Over the past two decades I’ve pioneered frameworks and advisory models that have guided Fortune 500 enterprises, PE/VC funds, and scale-ups through digital evolution.
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Instead of “by-the-book transformations,” I help boards, CEOs, and CTOs align strategy, behaviors, and delivery to achieve elite performance.
Here are the systems and case studies that define my work:
🔭 BOKaRy (Behavioral-OKR)
Governance that links vision → behaviors → delivery, giving boards and CFOs ROI clarity and resilience.
👉 Validated at IBM, where OKRs + DORA became PwC indicators; enabled CEO-level orchestration that coincided with stock moving from $90 → $250+.
👉 Loved by CFOs as the first OKR model built for financial clarity and scalability.
🥋 SW Craftsmanship Dojo®
Behavior-engineered continuous active learning — practiced by 100k+ developers worldwide, raising socio-technical maturity by up to 800%.
👉 Adopted at NS (Dutch Railways) for 400+ engineers, driving modernization and engagement.
👉 Reduced production incidents by 35% and infra costs by 30% at KTM.
👉 Empowered IBM teams to achieve elite DORA performance, validated by PwC.
👉 Adopted in ZF Trasics to upskill 200+ engineers building a revolutionary IDP platform.
👉 Trusted by top investors and venture studios to boost portfolio company engineering maturity.
🗺️ Explore ➝ The SW Craftsmanship Dojo®
🦄 Unicorns’ Ecosystem™
The holistic operating system that ends mediocracy, reignites engagement, and delivers measurable ROI.
👉 Used to turn IBM CIO’s 250+ teams into high-performance units validated by PwC.
👉 Powers advanced venture studios and corporate spin-outs, reducing failure rates and accelerating value creation.
🗺️ Explore ➝ The 🦄 Unicorns’ Ecosystem™
🎙️ The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns
Podcast & newsletter where 130+ investors and CEOs — including backers of Uber, Airbnb, and SpaceX — share how they create portfolio value with technology.
📰 Read & 🎧 Listen ➝ 🎙️ The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns
GitHub
Inside my GitHub 😺 account is an extensive collection of old code katas, which showcase some glimpse of our models based on Extreme Programming (XP), Agile, and DevOps methodologies. These katas are essentially programming exercises designed to hone skills and promote best practices and show my craft. My GitHub account is a testament to my passion for software craftsmanship and my commitment to improving the craft.
Hiring Kata: the TicTacToe 😱 nightmare 👻
TicTacToe may be one of the oldest and most dreaded katas in my hiring process, but it's also one of my favorites. It's a simple problem to solve, but it's incredibly engaging and has a gamification element to it. After all, it's a game that most people around the world played as children!
What makes this kata so special is that it can be used to create a complete end-to-end product package that showcases your craftsmanship skills. My approach involves using a LeanUX discovery to guide the development of a DevOps pipeline, resulting in a rock-solid application with over 95% test coverage.
I love using TicTacToe as a hiring kata because it allows me to assess a candidate's potential in just 24 hours. It's a challenging exercise, but it provides valuable insights into a candidate's technical abilities and problem-solving skills.
Over the years, I've experimented with different variations of TicTacToe to see just how far a candidate can push themselves on an entirely open-source product. Each experiment has given me a deeper understanding of what it takes to excel in software development and what qualities make for a successful candidate.
TicTacToe may be a simple game, but it's a powerful tool for assessing a candidate's skills and potential. It allows me to see firsthand how a candidate approaches a problem and the level of quality they can produce in a limited amount of time.
These are two very old versions of the TicTacToe kata that I use to teach the DevOps and XP foundations.
OLD Java example
OLD JavaScript example
Other Katas covering the XP foundations - 🍅⏲️ + 🗒️ + 🧑💻🧑🏿💻
🕥 Berlin Clock in Double-loop approach - BDD 🔁 + TDD 🔁
MathPortal in Double-loop approach - BDD 🔁 + TDD 🔁
🎮 Conway's Game of Life 👾👾
🎮 The Minesweeper ⛏️ and 💣
🕥 Berlin Clock
Mumbling
Car Park Escape & Refactoring Etiquette
My Kata Jumpstart
I was tired of spending valuable time setting up a new repository every day to practice coding kata. Thus I created a few kata jumpstarts! With this innovative tool, I can bootstrap a daily kata in less than 30 seconds. My robot takes care of all the necessary setup, so I can focus on what really matters: honing my coding skills.
Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, the kata jumpstart is the perfect way to streamline your daily kata routine with all tghe best practices and development tools, you need to succeed.
Python kata in 30 secs
JavaScript kata in 30 secs
JavaScript kata in 30 secs
SRE Challenge 🤯 - code on a google doc 📃
Researching about talent hunting and unicorns 🦄 I found a profound inspiration from the 'Google Way'. It could be because I love their innovative approach, or because I'm addicted to their research, but anyway, when I saw their coding interview on a whiteboard I was speechless.
So I started to switch my kata from a pure sandbox in a fully customized IDE full of tricks and snippets where almost everything is automated, to an empty Google doc. If you wanna enjoy it, take a look at my google docs.
