Luca Cipriani
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Toptal member since February 18, 2016
Luca is a DevOps manager and engineer. He's also an Amazon AWS expert and system architect for high traffic and scalable web applications. He's an expert at getting the most out of REST API and Linux systems. Currently, Luca is working as a manager of a team of five developers at Arduino.
Portfolio
Experience
- Ubuntu - 12 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 8 years
- Python - 7 years
- DevOps - 5 years
- Docker - 4 years
- Go - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Node.js, Redis, Go, GitHub, Git, Ubuntu
The most amazing...
...thing I've done was to design the architecture of Cloud9 (https://c9.io) and of the new Arduino Create project
Work Experience
CIO | DevOps
Arduino
- Managed and was responsible for the web architecture and the IT of Arduino.
- Performed project management—coordinated different teams in different countries.
- Dealt with the architecture design, management, monitoring, and optimization of AWS infrastructure.
- Promoted DevOps culture across all the companies of the group.
- Mentored developers and enabling collaboration with different product teams.
- Acted as the product manager of the Arduino Create SaaS.
DevOps Engineer
Relink Labs (via Toptal)
- Performed general assessment of AWS architecture, fixes, and improvements.
- Created a setup of DC/OS and created a pipeline to deploy to it.
- Investigated the monitoring DC/OS using Datadog then implemented the solution.
- Made security improvements about a DC/OS installation.
Senior System (Operations) Engineer
Cloud9 (https://c9.io)
- Worked on the architecture design, management monitoring, and optimization of AWS infrastructure.
- Designed the highly available architecture over different AWS regions.
- Performed the advanced VPC setup and security configurations.
- Migrated Amazon AWS to the Google Compute Engine.
- Implemented automatic deployment.
- Helped with networking troubleshooting.
Senior System Administrator
PeopleBrowsr
- Designed and implemented architectures to serve high load websites.
- Managed, implemented, and designed a scalable cloud architecture on our servers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, KVM, Fabric, and Ansible.
- Troubleshot performance and network issues.
- Maintained the Twitter Firehose high load network.
System Administrator | Developer
Redomino
- Installed, configured, managed, and monitored the physical and virtual Servers (80).
- Implemented the advanced projecting and configuration of Zope/Plone architecture.
- Developed the software for the system administration.
- Taught system administration for GNU/Linux server and Zope/Plone environment.
- Wrote a series of 9 articles about system administration with "Ubuntu Server Edition" published by Linux Pro magazine (Italian edition by Sprea editor). A special edition of the magazine with all the articles was published in December 2010.
Experience
Arduino Create
https://blog.arduino.cc/2015/05/05/sneak-peak-arduino-create/Featured in the AWS Official Blog
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/arduino-web-editor-and-cloud-platform-powered-by-aws/Education
Incomplete Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
Università degli studi di Torino - Turin, Italy
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, Fabric
Tools
PHP-FPM, NGINX, GitHub, SaltStack, Git, Google Compute Engine (GCE)
Paradigms
DevOps, REST, Agile Software Development
Platforms
Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ubuntu, Linux, X (formerly Twitter), DC/OS
Languages
Python, PHP, Go
Storage
Docker Cloud, Redis, RethinkDB, Memcached, MySQL
Frameworks
Plone, Django
Other
HAProxy, IBM SoftLayer, RHEL
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