Hi, I'm Aldo D'Aquino! 👋

🧑‍💻 I'm a senior Infrastructure Engineer at @BendingSpoons.
🙌 I'm positive-minded by nature. I adapt to situations. I like new challenges. I learn fast.
💡 I'm extemely curious. I love experiment with new technologies, learn new things, and try new programming languages.
💬 I communicate a lot. I foster dialogue and give honest feedback. I train new hires and mentor some univeristy students.
🌎 I live in Tuscany, close to the sea. This is one of the benefits of fully-remote work, which is a hard requirement for my life balance.
🤹 I'm a public speaker and open-source developer.

Resume

🧑‍💻 Technical Experience

Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ Bending Spoons

October 2020 - Present

Projects

• Design and implement the monitoring stack, composed by Prometheus, Mimir, and Grafana. Lead the adoption and spread the obserbility culture in the company.
• Design and implement the Kubernetes clusters and connected facilities for a smooth migration and integration with existing systems.
• Design and implement a self-desk platform that let teams autonomously bootstrap required resource while automatically enforcing best practices and security checks.
• Review, redesign and refactor the Evernote cloud infrastructure. Repay technical debt. Optimize costs. Improve developer experience and security. Consolidate the infrastructure and make it more resilient, observable, and operable.

Other resposibilities

• Maintain and improve infrastructure building blocks, such as Terraform modules, CircleCI orbs, and Helm charts. Maintain platform tools such as monitoring, clusters, and other internal tooling.
• Assist teams in complex migrations and infrastructure refactorings. Discuss infrastructure choices and review architectural design documents.
• Train new hires. Provide feedback to teammates. Run performance reviews.
• Collect data on developers productivity, run user interviews. Pragmatically propose new assets, tooling, or technologies to improve their efficiency. Validate assumptions with PoCs.
• Propose, discuss, and enforce best practices for the cloud. Provide tooling to ease their adoption.

🧑‍🎓 Education

MSc in ICT Solution Architect (110/110 with honors)

2020 - Pisa University

Master Thesis: Design, prototyping, and validation of a Kubernetes Operator to orchestrate a proprietary IoT platform on Red Hat OpenShift.
Internship @ Extra Red.

Acquired knowledge

• ICT Infrastructures, Cloud and Green Computing
• Parallel and Distributed Systems
• ICT Risk Assessment
• Cryptography, Security Methods and Verification, Cloud Security
• Mobile and Cyber-physical Systems, IoT
• Peer to Peer Systems, Blockchains
• Artificial Intelligence, Smart Applications
• Information Retrieval
• Data Mining
• Database design
• Computability and Complexity, Numerical Computing, Statistics and Probability Theory
• Algorithm Engineering

Projects

• ArtGuide: AR, AI project. I lead user stories and product desing and implemented the core service and the deployment pipelines.
• BeepBeep: Web application to keep track of our fitness runs. We split a monolith in a microservices application.
• COBrA: An Ethereum blockchain DAPP.
• eWee: Ensuring Wellness with Energy Efficiency, a domotic IoT project.

Bachelor in Computer Science

Final Thesis: Docker Orchestrator for Web Hosting. The project is available on daquinoaldo/Pier.

🎙️ Public Speaking

• dianacodes: @dianaberna interviewed me in her YouTube channel where she mentor aspiring developers.
• OK Google, configuriamo il VPS: Online talk about my VPS configuration at the GDG DevParty Together 2020.
• Ma Docker cos'è?: I was host in a Pointer Podcast episode.
• npm-init: A basic node.js course. No slides, no previous knowledge need. Just live coding and Q&A.Streamed online during the coronavirus lockdown.
• PWA from scratch: Talk and workshop on Progressive Web App organized for the GDG Pisa at GATE Centre.
• Come diventare sviluppatori open source: Motivational talk on how to become open source developers at Linux Day Pisa 2019.
• PWA for dummies: Workshop about Progressive Web App @ GDG DevFest Pisa 2019.

📝 Latest posts on Medium

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