Meet Nicola Amadio
Founder of forfettariato.com and a long-time observer of how ambitious European tech workers can earn more without automatically needing to relocate to the highest-cost hubs.
Nicola Amadio is an Italian developer who left Italy to pursue better opportunities abroad, first at Amazon in Barcelona and later at Oracle in Zurich.
While building his own 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 remain underpriced even when the talent quality is clearly there.
He started sharing those lessons publicly through TheEuropeanEngineer.com, which now reaches more than 15k subscribers and has become the leading newsletter on the internet focused on tech careers in Europe.
Nicola also works as a career coach, helping European tech workers reach higher-paying roles across Europe and in remote companies. That same body of work also led him to launch eurotoptech.com and remotegoats.com.
Why this project exists
Over time, Nicola noticed the same pattern from two different directions. On one side, he was helping many developers in Southern and Eastern Europe reach top-paying jobs elsewhere in Europe or remotely.
On the other side, when founders or hiring managers asked him who they should hire, his answer was often simple: hire a strong senior developer from Southeastern Europe in the EUR 50k-EUR 80k range if you want someone who can build real, high-quality software, communicate well, and still offer outstanding value.
forfettariato.com combines those two insights. The goal is to make nearshoring and cost-effective software production easier for western companies, while also helping tech workers in Southeastern Europe build strong careers and good lives without being forced to relocate.
The wider ecosystem around Nicola's work
forfettariato.com sits inside a broader set of products and content focused on careers, remote income, and smarter European mobility.
What Nicola wants this board to do
For western companies, the promise is access to strong, senior, communication-heavy talent in nearby European markets without paying inflated hub pricing.
For workers, the promise is different: better income, better optionality, and a path to a strong life in Europe that does not automatically require moving to London, Zurich, Amsterdam, or the US.
That is the core belief behind the brand: talent is more geographically distributed than compensation still suggests, and a better market should exist to reflect that.