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2024-now
Solutions Engineer (Corporate)
GitHub - DevTools (🇺🇸 Corporate)Finding solutions to engineering problems for GitHub's corporate customers.
2021-now
Founder & Cloud Native Officer
SyncTune - Engineering Services (Self-Employed)Leading companies towards Cloud Native, providing a range of specialized services, ranging from Engineering to DevOps coaching, Kubernetes training, fractional CTOing and so on. Offering advisory to startups (pre-seed, seed, series A) operating in the DevTools, AI, Healthcare and Fashion verticals. Making their infrastructure journey as easy as possible. Volunteering to organize events in the Cloud Native space, contributing to Kubernetes, speaking at international conferences, educating and creating content about Cloud Native.
2023-2024
Lead Cloud Native Consultant
Abila - IT Services (🇮🇹 Enterprise)As a Lead Cloud Native Consultant for Abila, I helped them to build a new Cloud Native practice and to deliver Cloud Native to their customers.
2022-2023
Lead Cloud Native Consultant | Data Manager
Nederlandse Kanker Instituut (NKI) - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - Healthcare (🇳🇱 Research center - Hospital)Supporting computational pathology and ML/AI workloads to train image pattern recognition models on biopsy data, plus annotate and label such data. I was responsible for the whole Azure infrastructure.Objective of the project is to increase the efficiency of diagnosis in breast cancer.
2022-2023
Chief Technology Officer
KubeLab - DevTools (🇳🇱 Startup)Started as fractional CTO then first key employee, I managed a highly distributed engineering team (7 people peak) applying a mix of Scrum and Kanban, hiring, set up a career framework, built a tech radar to enable adoption of tools, took care of DevEx and took key decisions steering the company strategy. I was also involved in fundraising activities (200k pre-seed). I designed and built a SaaS platform with the aim of simplyfing Kubernetes management across clouds and tenants. We released our klab-cli OSS project as part of our open-core strategy. In the end we failed to find the PMF before running out of cash and so we had to step back with lots of lessons learned.
2022
RedHat Trainer
Extraordy - Training (🇮🇹 RedHat Partner company)I was to have taught courses to Extraordy's customers on RedHat technologies (Ansible and Linux SysAdmin).
2022
Cloud Native Consultant
Roar - Customer Experience (CX) (🇺🇸 Corporate)I collaborated with Roar to enable DevOps culture in all aspects of the company, starting with CI/CD processes on Azure DevOps and evolving their infrastructure. Automated deployment processes on K8S clusters by creating a GitOps workflow (standardized and later adopted by the whole company) increasing deployment speed by over 100%.
2022
Cloud Native Trainer
Coopolis - Facility management and public services (🇮🇹 Cooperative)Enabled the company Engineers and Managers to understand DevOps culture by teaching classes with in-depth focuses on Gitlab and CI/CD processes. They were able to automate and increment deployment speed by a x4 factor after the course.
2021-2022
Fractional CTO
GreenChic - Sustainable Fashion (🇮🇹 Scaleup)Handling multiple suppliers and steering the whole IT strategy of the company, including but not limited to infrastructure and operations. Built a new AWS cloud infrastructure from ground up for their sustainable fashion e-commerce. I migrated their solution to a performant cloud architecture while hardening policies and solving critical security issues on their AWS Lambda APIs.
2021
Cloud Native Trainer
Italian Ministery of Economics and Finance - Security and finance (🇮🇹 Public Administration)Helped their IT joint command in Rome to improve DevOps practices by delivering a tailored DevOps course and an in-depth technical workshop on Azure cloud and Azure DevOps.
2021
Cloud Native Trainer
MVC Technologies S.p.A. - IT Consultancy & education (🇮🇹 Corporate)Delivered tailored DevOps courses to MVC customers, helping them to understand how to implement DevOps culture.
2021-2022
Cloud Native Consultant
D-Share - Digital News and Media (🇮🇹 Corporate)Managed Azure and AWS infrastructures and deployments for D-Share's news and media SaaS solution. Solved a critical incident where a DDoS attack coming from Chinese and Russian IPs caused a 100% downtime on one of their managed institutional applications.
2019-2021
Senior Software Engineer | Staff DevOps Engineer & SRE
Infocert - Digital Trust Services (🇮🇹 Corporate)I brought DevOps and Site Reliability practices in a digital signature product used by millions of people and thousands of companies all over Europe: GoSign. I improved the reliability and security of the product by developing document management and signature processes in modern Java 11. Created a fully automated process for infrastructure provisioning via Terraform, automated deployment via Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux and Spinnaker. I've designed delivery and incident management processes while working closely with cross functional teams spanning from sales to legal. I held internal courses to educate engineering teams on DevOps culture and processes. I spent 2 years leading the GoSign on-call service with 24/7 availability and solved over 200 critical production incidents (severity 1), saving millions of euros for the company. Deleted over 150k lines of code, refactored more than 400k, contributed to 50+ internal repositories, built a lot of 0 to 1 libraries, my code still servers 10+ million daily users.
2019-2021
Digital Signature & DevOps Consultant
Generali - Global Insurance & Asset Management (🇮🇹 Corporate)Consultancy offered via InfoCert on digital signature products for the Italian insurance branch of Generali. I was responsible for the migration of their digital signature solution from an on-premise monolith to a container-based one, deployed on Kubernetes (AWS EKS). I was responsible for conducting load tests and production critical deployments on AWS (off-peak hours, during the night or weekends). I automated the observability stack of their cloud infra and exposed Grafana dashboards to monitor DORA metrics, managed day-2 operations on Kubernetes and responsible for L3 customer support.
2019-2021
Digital Signature & DevOps Consultant
Enel - Food (🇮🇹 Corporate)Consultancy offered via InfoCert on digital signature products for Enel. I was responsible for remote test and production critical deployments on VMWare provided - Foreman provisioned puppet-configured Linux VMs, integration with multiple custom systems including even-driven dispatcher systems, notification queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka), massive bulk signature processes, new features development, and executive L3 support.
2019-2021
Digital Signature & DevOps Consultant
Allianz - Global Insurance & Asset Management (🇮🇹 / 🇫🇷 Corporate)Consultancy offered via InfoCert on digital signature products for the Italian and French insurance branch of Allianz. I was responsible for the migration of their legacy digital signature system, coordinator of multiple 3rd party consultants (Accenture, Deloitte), remote test and production critical deployments on VMWare provided, Foreman provisioned and puppet-configured Linux VMs. I was in charge of new features development and L3 customer support.
2019-2021
Digital Signature & Solution Architect, Security
Leonardo - Aerospace, Defence and Security (🇮🇹 Corporate (State controlled))Consultancy offered via InfoCert on digital signature products for the Finance deparment of Leonardo. I was responsible for remote test and production critical deployments on their on-premise Windows server environment, integration with their SAP multiple systems, IT security advisory and solution architecture.
2019-2021
Digital Signature & Solution Architect, Security
Frontex - Border and coast guard (🇪🇺 / 🇵🇱 EU Agency)Consultancy offered via InfoCert on digital signature products for the IT deparment of Frontex. I was responsible for test and production critical deployments on their on-premise Linux infra in compliance with EU regulations, integration with their Salesforce systems including custom plugins development, solution architecture and IT security advisory.
2019-2021
Digital Signature & DevOps Consultant
Barilla - Food (🇮🇹 Corporate)Consultancy offered via InfoCert on digital signature products for the Sales deparment of Barilla. I was responsible for remote test and production critical deployments on VMWare provided - Foreman provisioned, puppet-configured Linux VMs, integration with their Salesforce systems and L3 customer support.
2019-2021
Digital Signature & DevOps Consultant
BMW - Automotive (🇮🇹 / 🇩🇪 Corporate)Consultancy offered via InfoCert on digital signature products for the IT deparment of BMW. I was responsible for remote test and production critical deployments on their on-premise Linux infrastructure and L3 customer support.
2019-2021
Digital Signature & DevOps Consultant
Unicredit - Global Banking (🇮🇹 / 🇷🇸 Corporate)Consultancy offered via InfoCert on digital signature products for the Serbian branch of Unicredit Group. I was responsible for remote test and production critical deployments on their on-premise Linux infrastructure.
2019-2021
Digital Signature & DevOps Consultant
Reply - IT Consulting (🇮🇹 Corporate)Consultancy offered via InfoCert on digital signature products for Reply. I was responsible for the critical on-site deployments on their on-premise Windows environment serving over 10k users and technical support.
2018-2021
Senior Fullstack Engineer
Eco-Mind Software - IT Consulting (🇮🇹 Medium size company)Maximized my Spring, Quarkus and Java skills by working side by side with valuable professionals both internal and external to the company. Here I learnt the true meaning of the word 'teamwork' and how to work in a highly distributed team in a hybrid setting.
2018
Fullstack Software Developer
Reply Power - IT Consulting (🇮🇹 Corporate)This job got me in touch with Typescript (Angular) and Java (Spring). I've touched frameworks for the first time. I was able to leverage them to build reusable components both for APIs and frontend. This was also the very first time I heard about DevOps culture and CI/CD tools like Jenkins. This role propelled my journey torwards my objective to become a DevOps engineer.
2017-2018
Fullstack Software Developer
Vodafone - Internet Provider & Telecomunication Services (🇮🇹 / 🇬🇧 Corporate)I was responsible of a legacy Java product that was used by the financial group of Vodafone Italy. Here I learnt the importance of refactoring, optimization and keeping up to date with techs by migrating Oracle DBs to newer versions and Java from 5 to 8. I started working with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment and learnt how to manage a complex VM infrastructure based on VMWare technology
2017
Fullstack Software Developer
tenutabene (ex Cambiomarcia) - Automotive (🇮🇹 Startup)I learnt how a startup works and scales up. This experience was the best part in my journey in the web development world. Contributed to an (authorized) scraping-powered price estimation engine for second hand cars and a backoffice ERP web app for the management of the company's car fleet written in Laravel (PHP).
2015-2017
Junior Software Developer | Linux SysAdmin
Various - Generic IT (🇮🇹 IT Companies)I learnt how to work autonomously as a fullstack software developer (Linux administration tasks included) in chaotic environments, with little or no guidance. I started with languages such as: C++, C#, .NET and lots of bash scripting. I've thought myself how to take advantage of software architecture patterns.
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