# About Me

I’m a software engineer working on cloud infrastructure.

Before all of that, I studied at the University of Calabria, where I earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, both with top marks and honours. It was a really fun time, and most of my friends are from those years, especially the ones who joined me for an Erasmus exchange in Aalborg, Denmark.

I started out as a consultant at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, an Italian company. My first team was so small and so off the radar that we could do pretty much whatever we wanted, so we did some crazy things in production and even built our own web framework that was better than Spring (if you knew how to use it, though we never wrote the docs). Over time I grew into a team leader, and then led a larger group as I moved into Big Data, Hadoop, and Apache Spark.

I eventually realized I was drifting too far into management, so I moved to Red Hat, where I could keep being an engineer. I joined as a senior engineer and later became principal. I got deep into Kubernetes and, together with a friend, created Apache Camel K, a platform for running Apache Camel integrations on Kubernetes and OpenShift. I’m a committer and PMC member on Apache Camel, and I also worked on Syndesis and the Fabric8 developer tools. Most of the posts here are from that period.

From there I moved to Redpanda to work on real infrastructure rather than the apps running on top of it, going from senior to staff engineer over four years on the Cloud platform. I focused mainly on the serverless offering, but also on BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud), where customers run Redpanda in their own accounts while we operate it for them. I also helped bring Redpanda Connect to the cloud as a managed service. Connect is a connector framework for moving and transforming data, so coming from Apache Camel it felt like familiar ground.

I’ve now left Redpanda and I’m joining a new startup. More to come.

You can find me on GitHub and LinkedIn. My full CV is on LinkedIn.