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.