Resume
Senior Platform Engineer / SRE with 15+ years building and operating production platforms, specializing in Kubernetes across multi-cloud environments for enterprise and SaaS workloads. Specialised in Kubernetes (EKS, K3s, multi-cluster), GitOps (ArgoCD), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Delivered production-grade platforms for Swiss enterprise customers including Allianz Technology, NTT, REWE, Flow Swiss, and LerNetz+ AG. Focused on reliability, scalability, cost-efficient platform design, and improving developer experience.
Fluent in German (native), Italian (native), and English. Founder of Floads GmbH — providing Kubernetes and infrastructure consulting to Swiss enterprises.
Work Experience
Founder & Senior Platform Engineer, Floads GmbH
2019 - present
Architected and operated 6+ production Kubernetes clusters (EKS, K3s) across multiple environments for Swiss enterprise customers. Established GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, enabling self-service deployments and improving release reliability.
Designed Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) across AWS, Azure, and on-prem, improving environment consistency and reducing operational overhead. Optimised cloud resource usage and cluster sizing, reducing infrastructure costs and improving workload efficiency. Implemented observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), reducing incident detection time and improving system visibility.
Senior Platform Engineer, Flow Swiss AG
2021 - 2025
Operated and optimised production Kubernetes clusters serving multi-tenant cloud environments across Switzerland and Europe. Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual setup time and improving consistency.
Built observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana) enabling proactive alerting and SLA-driven operations. Strengthened platform security through RBAC, network segmentation, and compliance-focused architecture.
Senior Platform Engineer, Pistor AG
2024 - 2025
Migrated legacy RDS databases to Aurora, improving read performance and reducing failover times. Led serverless migration on AWS, significantly reducing compute costs and eliminating unnecessary infrastructure management.
Managed infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) across development, staging, and production environments.
Platform Engineer, Professional Services, Kubermatic GmbH
2019 - 2022
Designed multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms for enterprise customers (Allianz, NTT, REWE, VKB) across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. Deployed and operated Kubermatic KKP, automating cluster lifecycle management with KubeOne.
Developed Kubernetes controllers for security policy enforcement and network management. Implemented Istio service mesh and Knative for production-grade platform capabilities.
Senior Platform Engineer, 1plusX AG
2019 - 2021
Containerised ML workloads on AWS (ECS/EKS), improving deployment consistency and scalability. Extended Terraform and Ansible automation across data platforms (Kafka, Elasticsearch, S3).
Optimised CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), reducing build times and increasing deployment reliability.
Senior Platform Engineer, watson
2017 - 2018
Built and deployed production infrastructure for watson.de using Ansible IaC, enabling successful launch under high traffic conditions. Introduced core DevOps concepts including automated deployments, monitoring, and rollback features.
Senior Linux Engineer, ricardo.ch AG
2013 - 2016
Joined the SRE team responsible for keeping the Linux-based production environment up and running. Led the effort to embrace configuration management, migrating from Puppet to Ansible.
Provisioned and managed on-premise Elasticsearch clusters (ELK) for data aggregation and analysis. Actively contributed to building Ricardo Shops infrastructure based on Hybris and backend technologies like Varnish, HAProxy, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Founding Partner, TTSS AG
2013 - 2019
Delivered SRE and infrastructure automation consulting for Swiss customers including MigrosBank, Moneyhouse, and Pro Helvetia. Provided guidance on high-availability infrastructure design and automated deployment strategies.
IT Manager, Goethe-Institut Rom
2009 - 2012
Responsible for IT infrastructure management across all Goethe-Institut locations in Italy. Implemented automated task execution systems and learned how government institutions organize IT infrastructure at scale.
Open Source projects
Flamelet
A DevOps tool for remote infrastructure management and provisioning. Automates infrastructure setup from scratch across any environment (on-prem, cloud, bare metal). Built on Ansible, supporting multi-tenant deployments with centralized configuration management. Provides reproducible, traceable infrastructure provisioning with version control integration and rollback capabilities.
mentors.debian.net
This platform allows new Debian package maintainers to get in contact with official Debian developers (sponsors) for their packages. The system allows upload of new created packages to a special repository where they can be reviewed from DDs. The service gained big success in the Debian GNU/Linux community and has been also mentioned on Linux Magazine. More infos are on https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsNet.
Debian
I have been a Debian Package Maintainer for several years and managed packages like libaudio-flac-header-perl, libaudio-flac-perl, libcvs-perl and mp3roaster.
Speaks and Talks
Swisscom TechTalk managed OpenShift
Swisscom Business Campus, 2019 Impact Hub Bern, 2019 Swisscom Business Campus, 2019
Provisioning via Docker and AppFlow
5th Ansible Zurich Meetup, 2017
Vagrant/Ansible workflow and Percona XtraDB Cluster (Galera) with HAProxy
WordPress Zurich Meetup #8, 2015
Education
Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Computer Science Department, Information Technology, B.Sc. IT
2003 - 2009
Skills
Kubernetes & GitOps
Kubernetes, EKS, K3s, multi-cluster, Helm, ArgoCD, KubeOne, KKP
Cloud Platforms
AWS, Azure, GCP
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible
Observability & SRE
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, SLO/SLA, alerting, incident response
CI/CD & Security
GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Istio, RBAC, sealed-secrets, cert-manager
Databases & Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora, Elasticsearch, Ceph
Linux & Virtualization
GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS), Docker, KVM, Proxmox