Meet Nicola Amadio.
Italian developer, newsletter writer, career coach, and founder building platforms around high-leverage tech careers in Europe.
Nicola is an Italian developer who left Italy for better opportunities — first at Amazon in Barcelona, later at Oracle in Zurich.
While building that path, he became unusually focused on understanding the European tech market: where the best roles are, how compensation changes across countries, and why some markets stay underpriced even when the talent is clearly there.
He started sharing those lessons publicly through TheEuropeanEngineer, which now reaches more than 15k subscribers and is the leading newsletter focused on tech careers in Europe.
That same body of work also led to EuroTopTech and RemoteGoats.
Why this project exists.
Over time, Nicola noticed the same pattern from two directions. He was helping developers in Southern and Eastern Europe reach top-paying jobs elsewhere in Europe or remote.
On the other side, when founders or hiring managers asked who they should hire, the answer was usually simple: a strong senior dev from Southeastern Europe in the €50–80k range — high-quality output, great communication, outstanding value.
forfettariato.com combines those two insights. Make nearshoring frictionless for western companies; help European tech workers build great lives without forced relocation.
The wider work around Nicola's projects.
forfettariato.com sits inside a broader set of products and content focused on careers, remote income, and smarter European mobility.