Matteo De Ponti

via Matteotti 27/5 · 20068 Peschiera Borromeo, Milan · Italy · (+39) 351.91.80.120 · [email protected]

I am a Cloud SRE Engineer, my core business is about cloud-native infrastructures. I’m an expert Linux OS engineer, with good knowledge of containerization techniques and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Currently I'm architecting, deploying and managing cloud-native applications and high availability infrastructures on AWS. I'm a former software developer and I have a lot of expertise with web applications, APIs, systems integrations, OS managing and bash scripting on OS Linux. I follow and promote DevOps philosophy and I have expertise with tools like Git, Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Drone, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Pulumi. I ran several initiative useful to promote DevOps philosophy and SRE into companies I've worked with. I follow ITIL 4 best practices and Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban). I'm a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, AWS Solution Architect Associate Certified and ITIL 4 Foundation Certified. I have experience in managing people.

I'm the owner of the Udemy course 'Introduzione a Cloud & DevOps per la Digital Transformation'.

Technologies used for building this website: Kubernetes (K3S) with Helm on Oracle Cloud for the infrastructure tier, GitHub Actions for the CI, Docker & docker-compose for the containerization tier in dev environment, Gunicorn, Flask, Python, HTML, CSS and JavaScript for the application tier.

Professional experience

SRE Engineering Manager

Prima Assicurazioni

As the leader of a team of Site Reliability Engineers, I guide them (>10 people) in supporting the company's goals and coaching developers on infrastructure best practices. Our aim is to increase developer autonomy in managing infrastructure tasks and adhere to the 'you build it, you run it' approach using frameworks like Domain Driven Design and Team Topologies. I oversee team performance, prioritize their growth and well-being, and manage the DevOps Community of Practice, fostering knowledge-sharing among interested Prima employees. Skills: People Management, Delivery management, Strategy definition, Team Topologies, Domain Driven Design, Kanban, Shape Up

Oct 2022 - attuale

Site Reliability Engineer

Prima Assicurazioni

As a member of the Prima Assicurazioni Infrastructure Team, my role involves managing the infrastructure supporting the company's workloads and building platform tools to enhance developers' experiences. Additionally, I spearhead a teaching initiative aimed at sharing DevOps principles and methodologies within the company to upskill developers on critical Cloud Computing topics and promote the 'you build it, you run it' approach. In 2023, I served as the dedicated Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) responsible for supporting and maintaining the cloud infrastructure specifically for the Claims domain. Tech stack: AWS, K8S, Helm, Docker, Pulumi, Terraform, Cloudformation, Cloudflare, Datadog, ELK Stack, Harness Drone CI, GitHub & GitHub Actions

Mar 2022 - Sep 2023

Chief Technology Officer

Xidera srl (GPI Group)

I manage the technical teams of xidera, giving my contribution in the company's strategic decisions regarding technical areas. The goal is reduce the technical debt of xidera, internally governing a cultural transition towards the adoption of Agile and DevOps Methodologies and a technical transition with the adoption of the 12-factor paradigm for the development of applications, restructuring the legacy code and introducing tools and technologies that they favor the creation of cloud-native applications

Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

Network Automation Engineer

Fastweb SpA

I was part of the team involved in automation of the software that is implemented for platforms used by Fastweb for manage network services. I managed microservices applications with Docker containers, I took care of the creation of the Kubernetes resources necessary for the applications and of the deploy through Helm. I have also carried out E2E automatic tests using Robot Framework. I have applied DevOps using CI/CD pipelines on Gitlab, both for the versioning of the application code, and for the versioning of the Helm configurations (GitOps).

Feb 2021 - Aug 2021

Prenotami.cloud Tech Lead

Xidera srl (GPI Group)

I was in charge as tech lead of prenotami.cloud, a cloud SaaS solution resulting from a deep architectural revision of several legacy on-premise-designed softwares, made for guarantee horizontal scalability and high availability and high reliability in AWS Cloud. I've architected the system infrastructure on AWS, decoupling a monolithic web application in several services, in order to reach a SOA scalable solution. I've used chroot jails and Docker as containerization tools. I've studied and realized a CI pipeline using Bitbucket Pipelines and a CD system using Ansible as automation platform. I've used Locust.io as load & stress testing platform. I've configured and used several AWS services, both for building the infrastructure (ELB, EC2, RDS, Route53, API GW, Lambda, etc.) and operations and monitoring (CloudWatch). This project was managed with Agile methodology, with Scrum pattern and one-week or ten-days sprints.

Mar 2020 - Jan 2021

DevOps & Cloud Engineer – Tech Team Lead

Xidera srl (GPI Group)

I've managed the whole developers team of the company, both Web Applications and API developers and developers working on kiosk’s and embedded devices. I've managed and architected scalable and high availability Cloud solutions on AWS. I’ve introduced DevOps solutions and CI/CD with tools like Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket. I've managed company systems and internal software. I've been part of the team focused on continuous improvement and company’s workflow revisions. I took care of making all the estimates and analysis related to IT projects, managing them until they’re realized, often working directly on code. Relevant Projects: unattended kiosk’s payment solutions.

Nov 2018 - Jan 2021

Full Stack Software Engineer (Junior & Senior)

Xidera srl

I’ve analyzed and developed web applications and APIs, managed Linux OS, with a deep experience with unattended and embedded solutions. I worked also as IT Project Manager for all the projects I’ve been involved. Every project was managed with Agile Methodologies following ITIL best practices. Relevant Projects: Chatbots, Web Application focused on managing complex workflows of patients in healthcare facilities, Kiosk’s devices software reversioning.

Apr 2008 - Nov 2018

Education

Università degli Studi di Milano
Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Communications

Final Grade: 95/110

Oct 2004 - Feb 2008

ITIS E. Mattei - San Donato Milanese
Secondary School Diploma in Computer Science

Final Grade: 95/100

Sep 1999 - Jul 2004

Skills

Message brokers
  • Kafka
Cloud Providers
  • AWS
Containers, Orchestrators, Virtualization
  • Docker
  • Compose
  • Kubernetes
  • chroot jails
DBMS & DBCaches
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
DevOps & CI/CD
  • Git
  • Bitbucket
  • Pulumi
  • GitLab
  • Travis CI
  • Ansible
  • Helm
  • Github
  • Jenkins
  • Terraform
  • AWS CloudFormation
Frameworks, Appservers, Webservers
  • Flask
  • Dancer2
  • Gunicorn
  • Plack
  • Bootstrap
  • Nginx
  • Apache
Programming Languages
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Bash
  • PHP5
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Javascript
Monitoring & Observability
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • Elasticsearch
  • Logstash
  • Kibana
  • Datadog
Project Managing and Processes
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • ITIL
  • Team Topologies
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Shape Up
Operating Systems
  • Linux (Admin)
  • Windows (superuser)
Unit and Load Tests
  • pytest
  • Plack::Test
  • locust.io
  • RobotFramework
  • Selenium Webdriver

Certification and courses

  • CKAD - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - The Linux Foundation
  • AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification - Amazon Web Services
  • DMx102: Introduction to Arduino Programming - Institut Mines-Télécom
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification - Amazon Web Services
  • ITIL® 4 Foundation Certification - Axelos – Certified by PeopleCert
  • Microsoft DEV330x Creating Scalable, Robust, Interactive Code with Python - Microsoft
  • Amazon ECS & Fargate Master Class - Docker on AWS - Udemy
  • Apache Kafka Series - Udemy
  • Robot Framework Test Automation - Udemy
  • AWS CloudFormation Master Class - Udemy
  • Front-End Web Development with React - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Tech talks

  • Incontro DevOps Italia 2024 - Road to Domain Driven: vita spericolata di un Cloud Engineer
  • CloudConf 2024 - Road to Domain Driven: vita spericolata di un Cloud Engineer

Blog