Giulio D'Ippolito
Verified Expert in Engineering
Networking Developer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since December 16, 2019
Giulio is a passionate and self-driven engineer with several years of experience in the field. He started his career as a system administrator but then gradually transitioned into a DevOps role—building and designing microservices that can scale. Giulio's specialization ranges from cloud technologies, automation, continuous integration, and Python coding.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 7 years
- Networking - 5 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 4 years
- Azure - 3 years
- Ansible - 3 years
- Microservices Architecture - 3 years
- Kubernetes - 2 years
- Terraform - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Buildkite, Kubernetes, PyTorch, Apache Kafka
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed, coded, and shipped to production was a performance-critical API able to reduce significantly the latency of the previous implementation.
Work Experience
Platform Engineer
Wayve Technologies
- Created and maintained the cloud infrastructure in Azure using Terraform. In particular the configuration of sIte-to-site VPN from the data center to the cloud.
- Dockerized images for running machine learning jobs at scale.
- Used Ansible to configure the machine and server for ML engineers.
Systems Engineer
Scape Technologies
- Designed, built, and maintained microservices written in Python to provide various functionalities to the platform.
- Improved automation and self-healing capabilities for a critical part of the production infrastructure.
- Migrated a critical API from Lambda to Docker to significantly improve performance and ability to scale.
- Created a pipeline to store customer metrics in a long term datastore.
- Configured a visualization dashboard to allow business people to get insights into customer metrics without making a request to the technical team.
DevOps Expert
Everis Consultancy
- Built an efficient and automated pipeline to build and deploy a project formed by various components (multiple front ends, back ends, and database migrations).
- Created an infrastructure using Ansible to automate configuration and installation of all the various components required to run the project (e.g., code repository, CI, code quality analysis tool, database and application servers).
- Established a development environment based on Vagrant and Docker to help developers to have a pain free experience without manual interventions.
- Managed the VPN configuration to synchronize source control repositories across three different locations.
System Administrator
BrightTalk
- Improved the performance of various database queries by creating metrics that highlights the most executed and slow queries on the platform.
- Started the cloud journey with different teams by redesigning and migrating applications from on-premises to the AWS Cloud.
- Redesigned the deployment system to improve speed and reliability moving from a pull-based system based on Puppet to a push-one based on Ansible.
- Automated the creation of the cloud infrastructure using Packer and Ansible.
- Introduced new tools to visualize logs (ELK stack) and store metrics (Grafana and Prometheus).
Experience
Creation of a Monitoring Solution for Database Querying
Education
Master's Degree in IT Engineering
Università degli Studi di Roma Tre - Rome, Italy
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Università degli Studi di Roma Tre - Roma, Italy
Certifications
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
AWS
Certificate of Expertise in Ansible Automation
Red Hat
RHCE
Red Hat
Skills
Libraries/APIs
PyTorch
Tools
GitLab CI/CD, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Jenkins, VPN, GitLab, Grafana, Vagrant, SonarQube, Puppet, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Packer
Paradigms
DevOps, Agile Software Development, Lambda Architecture, Microservices Architecture, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD)
Platforms
Azure, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Docker, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Red Hat Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Buildkite, Apache Kafka
Storage
Redis, MySQL
Languages
Groovy, PHP, Python, Bash
Other
Networking, Machine Learning, Akamai
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