DevOps Engineer / Backend Developer / Security / Open Source
Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
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📬 Contact
- Email: me followed by @ and the domain of this website - or use the contact form
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/giovannitoraldo
- Portfolio: see the Slides section or my GitHub profile
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🧑💻 Summary
Platform-focused DevOps Engineer with a strong software development background.
I design and improve cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation so teams can ship faster, reduce operational risk, and scale delivery with confidence.
I help companies standardize engineering practices through reusable tooling, strengthen developer experience, and turn platform work into measurable business impact.
I am currently considering only fully remote opportunities.
🚀 Top Skills
- Continuous Delivery
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Ansible
- AWS
- Python
- Java
🌐 Languages
- 🇬🇧 English (Professional Working)
- 🇮🇹 Italian (Native or Bilingual)
💼 Experience
🏢 Hyland
DevOps Engineer January 2022 - Present Remote
I am a member of the Ops Readiness team inside the Alfresco engineering, working on development and maintenance of:
- OSS Ansible playbook to deploy Alfresco Content Services on IaaS
- OSS Helm charts to deploy Alfresco Content Services on Kubernetes
- Terraform GitOps pipeline to manage the integration environments used by all the Alfresco engineering
- GitHub Actions and reusable CI best practices used in hundreds of repos across the organization and helping other teams with the migration from Travis
- Internal SCA and SAST pipelines to ensure Alfresco is shipped without known vulnerabilities
🏢 Engineering
Solutions Developer January 2020 - December 2021 Remote
Lead developer of the Cloudesire platform that powers the Engineering marketplace.
🏢 Cloudesire
Lead Developer & Co-Founder January 2016 - December 2019 Pisa, Italy
Design, development and management of a distributed cloud management platform to deliver SaaS, with integrated applications auto-deployment, monitoring and billing tools, using a plethora of open-source frameworks and libraries, such as: Spring, Hibernate, ActiveMQ, Hazelcast, jclouds, Chef, Jenkins.
Organizing the daily activities for each developer of the team, always keeping an eye on next features, tuning up the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline, watching logs and hunting bugs.
📚 Packt
Author and Technical Reviewer January 2012 - December 2017
- 2012: written OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing
- 2017: review of Git Essentials Second Edition by Ferdinando Santacroce
- 2016: review of Mastering Redmine Second Edition by Andriy Lesyuk
- 2015: review of Git Essentials by Ferdinando Santacroce
- 2014: review of Gitolite Essentials by Sitaram Chamarty
- 2013: review of Mastering Redmine by Andriy Lesyuk
🏢 Liberologico
Software Developer October 2012 - December 2015 Pisa Area, Italy
R&D projects on the ecommerce cloud platform that later will become Cloudesire.
🏢 Space New
Web Developer, Systems Administrator April 2012 - September 2012 Lucca, Italy
Pushing the entire development team on using Open Source tools like Drupal, Git, Redmine and VirtualBox to increase productivity and project overall quality and maintainability.
Revising existing web sites, introducing caching techniques and specific optimizations to decrease servers load on peak hours and decrease latency.
Maintaining production systems on the Linode platform, leveraging git deployments, Varnish and Ubuntu.
🏢 Libersoft
Systems Administrator, Web Developer February 2008 - March 2012
Installing and maintaining Debian/Ubuntu infrastructures for various web application hosting, firewall and cloud computing.
Developing web applications with Drupal and Symfony.
Teaching on basic IT and Linux courses.
🎓 Education
🏫 ITC Francesco Marchi
Economics, Information Technology 2000 - 2005 Final grade: 80/100