CV
Experience
SUSE
Senior Platform Engineer · Remote, Italy · 2025 – Present
- Own cross-cutting platform initiatives spanning Kubernetes, virtualization, observability, and asset governance, with responsibility for greenfield design, production readiness, and long-term maintainability
- Optimized platform efficiency achieving a 62% reduction in infrastructure costs ($100K+ annual savings), by architecting and deploying Kubernetes Cluster Auto-scaling with Cluster API on multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, On-Prem) platform
- Architected and delivered the SUSE Observability MCP Server from greenfield idea to MVP, embedding LLM-driven analysis directly into the alerting pipeline; recognized by senior leadership for production hardening and roadmap inclusion
- Designed and implemented a Kubernetes operator to orchestrate large-scale virtual machine migrations from KVM to Harvester, enabling the migration of 100+ VMs; a transition that was not operationally feasible without custom orchestration
- Provided technical direction, design reviews and mentorship for platform engineers, influencing architectural decisions across multiple domains and initiatives
Platform Engineer · Remote, Italy · 2025
- Designed and implemented a custom Kubernetes operator to synchronize VLAN and virtual machine assets into NetBox, establishing a single source of truth for infrastructure inventory
- Engineered GPU observability solution for RKE2 and Harvester/KubeVirt clusters, enabling fine-grained monitoring of NVIDIA A2/H100 with MIG and vGPU segmentation
- Architected migration from Prometheus/Grafana stack to SUSE Observability (StackState) for federated multi-cluster observability, cutting troubleshooting time by 25%
- Led cloud architecture evolution across AWS, GCP, and Azure for enterprise migrations, aligning Cloud Landing Zone (CLZ) design with strategic requirements
Stack: Rancher, Harvester, Longhorn, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, EKS, GKE, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Salt, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, Flux, ArgoCD, Fleet, Kubewarden, GPU, NetApp, S3, IAM, VPC, Go, Rust
Ericsson
DevOps Engineer Team Lead · Pagani, Italy · 2023 – 2024
- Led team of 5 engineers in designing Internal Developer Portal (IDP) based on Spotify Backstage, improving developer efficiency by 25% through self-services
- Evangelized portal usage and adoption of best practices
DevOps Engineer · 2022 – 2023
- Engineered an ML-driven solution for automated Kubernetes microservice performance optimization, reducing engineering time required to fine-tune applications configuration from weeks to days
Cloud Engineer · 2021 – 2022
- Optimized Ericsson Licensing solution footprint by 25% deploying auto-scaling and fine-tuning resources configuration, leading to a throughput increase of 10%
Stack: Python, Go, Java, REST API, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Minio (S3), Kafka, Zookeper, NATS, TDD, DDD, Event Driven (EDA), Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker, Helm, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, CICD, Gatekeeper (OPA), Backstage
Cisco
ML Engineer · Vimercate, Italy · 2020 – 2021
- Designed and implemented ML-based solution for optical devices troubleshooting, improving defect detection by a 2x factor
Stack: Python, Tensorflow, Computer Vision, Pandas, Plotly, Data Visualization
Education
Master Degree in Computer Engineering
Politecnico di Milano · Milan, Italy · 2018 – 2020
Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering
Università degli Studi di Salerno · Fisciano, Italy · 2014 – 2018
Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure
GCP, AWS, Azure, Storage, Networking, CDN, HPC (GPU), Databases, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Observability
SRE & DevOps
Monitoring, Alerting, Incident Response, On-Call, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), GitOps, IaC, CI/CD, Go, Python