Michele Brissoni
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Veľký Lapáš, Nitra Region, Slovakia
Toptal member since July 21, 2022
Michele is an international tech advisor and fractional chief AI officer. He's a DevOps lead, an international XP speaker, and the creator of nWave.ai, the first deterministic, agentic AI-coding framework, praised by Dave Farley in his AI briefing series. From F1 engineering to Fortune 100s, Michele helps organizations become AI-native and achieve elite performance.
Portfolio
Experience
- XP - 20 years
- Java - 20 years
- Linux - 20 years
- Python - 20 years
- DevOps - 13 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 11 years
- JavaScript - 10 years
- Kubernetes - 4 years
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Test-driven Development (TDD), DevOps, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Agile Software Development, Software Development
The most amazing...
...thing I've invented is a unique agentic AI coding framework for those who won't go into production without knowing what is running on their servers.
Work Experience
Co-founder
nWave.ai
- Empowered elite software development teams at AMD, Nike, AWS, IBM, CISCO, Pfizer, NS, and many more.
- Released a new 78 AI-SW development antipattern and created the whitepaper on deterministic SDLC in agentic coding.
- Participated as guests on Dave Farley's AI Briefings episode 1, discussing how modern software development has changed and evolved.
Founder
BriX Consulting
- Supported numerous clients to become high-performing organizations, collecting more than 1,000 5-star feedback and reviews.
- Drove several full Agile/DevOps digital transformations at the organization level. The inventor of Behavioral OKRs (BOKaRy) and the SW Craftsmanship Dojo, the lifesaver for software organizations dealing with AI disruption.
- Created the Unicorns' Ecosystem, a behaviorally engineered model for software excellence that is now the core engine of the most modern software venture studio.
- Created n-Wave, the unique deterministic agentic-AI coding framework for highly regulated software development organizations.
Chief DevOps Lead | Executive Technical Advisor
IBM
- Advised IBM CIO Fletcher Previn and senior leadership on digital transformation strategy, cloud-native modernization, and cultural evolution.
- Received the 2019 award with the prestigious IBM coin for the OKR company transformation.
- Transformed IBM CIO into a modern product-centric organization, introducing the DORA model and the OKRs as the transformation drivers. I was the DevOps lead.
- Worked as a DevOps lead and coach. I moved more than 250 teams into the high-elite performance.
- Created the largest worldwide extreme programming and software craftsmanship community of practice based on a dojo continuous-learning model, where I trained more than 2,000 developers worldwide.
Founder and Senior DevOps Coach and Lead
Movalia S.r.l
- Built two intelligent transportation systems products based on a revolutionary event-driven microservices architecture, entirely built with TDD and BDDS on top of an automated AWS infrastructure as code.
- Developed one enhanced reality mobile application to catch the bus.
- Went to production and competed with the giants of this industry in less than six months.
Agile and XP Coach | Technical Leader
UniCredit S.p.A
- Transformed one of the biggest European banks to Agile, extreme programming, and DevOps.
- Refactored an old monolith application handling over 100 million mandates and reversals into a fully event-driven microservices architecture continuously delivered on AWS.
- Contributed to the first Italian bank to move a critical core asset to the cloud.
Experience
SW Craftsmasnhip Dojo®
https://swcraftsmanshipdojo.com/Fleet Management System
Refactoring the Bank's Core Asset into the Cloud
nWave.ai
https://nwave.aiEducation
Software Development in Computer Science
University of Trento - Trento, Italy
Master's Degree in Telecommunications and Robotic
University of Trento - Trento, Italy
Certifications
OKR Coach
Workboard
Coach
IBM
XP Coach
IBM
Certified Product Owner
Agile Alliance
Certified Scrum Master
Agile Alliance
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, GraphQL API
Tools
GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Confluence, Amazon EKS, GitLab, Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Logging, HashiCorp, Helm, RabbitMQ, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure App Service, Azure Application Insights, Azure Network Security Groups, Observability Tools, Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI, Dynatrace
Languages
Java, Python, JavaScript, Bash, SQL, Bash Script, Bicep, C#, Go
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell, .NET, Robot, Dojo, Spark
Paradigms
DevOps, XP, Test-driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test-driven Development (ATDD), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Microservices Architecture, Continuous Integration (CI), Azure DevOps, Event Storming, DevSecOps, Agile Software Development, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Agile, Extreme Programming, ITIL
Platforms
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Docker, Unix, Amazon EC2, Kubernetes, Azure Functions, MacOS, AWS IoT, Apache Kafka, Databricks, New Relic
Storage
MySQL, Azure SQL, Datadog, Azure Storage
Industry Expertise
Telecommunications
Other
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Agile Coaching, Domain-driven Design (DDD), Scrum Master, CI/CD Pipelines, Containerization, Cloud Computing, Architecture, Technical Leadership, Networking, IT Security, Cloud, Scripting, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Pulumi, GitOps, Snyk, GitHub Actions, Cursor AI, Distributed Tracing, Observability, Microsoft Azure, Monitoring, Cloud Security, Containers, AWS DevOps, Argo CD, JetBrains IDE, Software Development, Agile DevOps, Lean Product Manager, Agile Transformation, Coaching, Training, Leadership, Product Owner, Executive Coaching, Negotiation, Data Warehouse Design, Scrum Coaching, Software, IT Infrastructure, AI Infrastructure, Large Language Models (LLMs), Azure Databricks, OpenTelemetry, AWS Security Hub, Azure Data Factory (ADF), HIPAA
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