I am an independent consultant, helping companies to design and implement an effective cloud-native strategy.
I helped several companies transform from traditional infrastructure to public or private cloud implementation, using container and serverless approaches.
I focus on cloud-native implementations, scalability, continuous delivery practices, resiliency, performance, and observability.
I have helped several companies adopt DevOps and Cloud Native practices both on-premises and in the public cloud. By hiring me, you will be able to work directly with me for the entire project duration.
Who I am
I am an engineering leader with eighteen years of IT experience building products, designing cloud platforms, and leading teams. I have engaged in team management, technology innovation strategy and implementation, DevOps and cloud-native adoption, and infrastructure development.
I possess broad expertise in DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices, cloud technologies for large-scale enterprises (with specific focus on Amazon AWS cloud), computer networks, software and hardware architectures, cyber security, client/vendor relationship, auditing and compliance.
Thriving in an international environment, I have extensive experience leading a multinational distributed team. During the last ten years, I have been instrumental in enabling remote-based collaboration based on a remote-first approach.
You can find me on Linkedin and Twitter.
I live in Verona, Italy.
Expertise
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Engineering leadership
Career development and tutoring
Cloud-native architectures
Container orchestration
Serverless technology
Software development optimization
Continuous Delivery
DevOps practices
Platform Engineering
Observability
Monitoring
Logging & Tracing
Technical training
High availability
Computer networking
Core Technologies
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Containers
Docker
Kubernetes
Red Hat OpenShift
Rancher
Istio
Amazon AWS
Google Cloud Platform
Hashicorp Terraform
Hashicorp Vault
Elastic suite
GitHub
Gitlab
Prometheus
Grafana
Ansible
Technical Certifications
- CNCF: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) | From 2018
- CNCF: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) | From 2021
- Hashicorp: Certified Terraform Associate | From 2020
- Hashicorp: Certified Vault Associate | From 2020
Education
- 2009 - Ph.D. in Information Engineering, Padua University, Italy
- 2005 - Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Padua University, Italy
Impact
Independent Consultant & Strategic Advisor - DevOps and Cloud Native
2023 to present - Martino Fornasa Srl
Main contributions (expand)
- I help my clients in their digital transformation efforts, moving from traditional applications and infrastructure to cloud-native applications in private, hybrid, and public cloud settings.
- I help my client teams build a cloud-native mindset and skillset, providing project leadership, mentoring, and hands-on deep technical activity. The final goal is always to help develop and scale an autonomous team of engineers.
- I ensure the timely delivery of critical projects. I am frequently responsible for solving the technical issues architects and team leaders cannot solve.
Senior Engineering Manager - DevOps and Cloud-Native Lead (hybrid)
2018 to 2022 - Kiratech, Italy
Main contributions (expand)
- I have built up the consultancy team to sustain company growth by coordinating the hiring process and acting as a mentor to senior engineers willing to become line managers or architects, helping them build autonomous teams to support scaling.
- I spent time with current and prospective customers, mainly enterprises, explaining the advantages of a collaboration with us, outlying the advantages of DevOps and cloud-native adoption inside their organization, and helping to define a custom adoption plan tailored to their needs.
- I contributed to the definition of the company's technical proposition in the domains of DevOps, data center automation, cloud adoption and migration, cloud-native technologies, infrastructure management, and security.
- I ensured the timely delivery of critical projects. I was responsible for solving the technical issues that architects and team leaders could not solve.
- I have been instrumental in the setup of the Managed Service division, which provides data center and infrastructure management as a service to our customers, including 24/7 monitoring and support.
- I built and maintained project management practices and tools for customer project delivery. I made sure that best practices were followed.
- I built the training program for people in my team, and I collaborated on training activities for the entire technical team in the company.
- I was responsible for the company training offer, coordinating the qualification of teachers and the accreditation with third-party training programs (e.g., the Linux Foundation Training)
- I have been instrumental in the company's qualification and partnership with international technical organizations, like the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
- I regularly spoke in webinars and conferences to promote company activities in the enterprise sector and the DevOps community.
Head of DevOps (remote)
2014 to 2018 - Clevertech (Web and Mobile Solutions), New York, NY, USA
Main contributions (expand)
- I led the DevOps team, with full responsibilities for strategy and implementation of the software/hardware and networking infrastructure based on cloud technologies.
- I led a team in deploying a build and deployment pipeline that dramatically reduced the failures related to application deployment through automated code quality feedback, automated testing, automatic smoke tests, and configuration management.
- I designed a local environment for developers based on container technology (applications servers, database server, etc.) that allowed reducing the developer's setup time from 4-8 hours to 15 minutes.
- I designed and implemented the company IT infrastructure, including networking, telecommunications, cloud components, and software development support tools, scalable to accommodate rapid company growth (tripled in size in three years).
- I directed the implementation of a solid data security program to guarantee confidentiality, availability, and integrity to our corporate clients, based on infrastructure security, authentication and privilege security, strong identity management, and software application security.
- I led technology training sessions for the technical staff on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques.
Adjunct Professor
2014 to 2015 - University of Genoa, Italy
Main contributions (expand)
- I taught the "Computer Networks" course in the Computer Engineering Undergraduate Program.
Technical Director
2010 to 2014 - M3S, Genova, Italy
Main contributions (expand)
- I led a team in the redesign, implementation, and day-to-day operations of a computing infrastructure providing IT services for a large port (application servers, web servers, databases, email servers, DNS servers, anti-spam). The infrastructure comprised bare-metal servers based on VMware and Amazon EC2 instances
ICT Researcher
2005 to 2014 - Computer Platform Research Center - Padua University, Italy
Main contributions (expand)
- I designed and coded an open-source implementation of the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 8021.D-2004) standard, which has been accepted in the Open vSwitch open-source virtual switch, thus enabling RSTP operation on Linux-based virtualization environments.
- I developed an Internet access service monitoring method based on passive analysis of TCP traffic passing for a network node. I filed a patent related to IP-networks performance characterization.