Michele Brissoni
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Veľký Lapáš, Slovakia
Toptal member since July 21, 2022
Michele is a pioneer of Agile, XP, TDD, and DevOps. He started the movement in early 2000 when he collaborated with Ferrari F1. Since then, Michele has pushed himself to be the best software craftsman and to be able to coach others to achieve a better team 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
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Linux, JetBrains, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Test-driven Development (TDD), Agile Coaching, DevOps
The most amazing...
...thing I've learned is the way of teaching extreme programming and DevOps with neuroscience and behavioral psychology.
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
BriX Consulting Ltd
- Supported numerous clients to become high-performing teams and organizations, collecting more than one hundred 5-star feedback and reviews.
- Drove a DevOps transformation at the team and organization level. One of the few EU DevOps experts that used OKR, DORA, flow framework, team topology, and better value sooner safer happier (#BVSSH) in combination with coaching and dojos.
- Created an XP and SW craftsmanship dojo that wires the necessary unicorn behaviors like TDD, ATDD, BDD, DDD, CI/CD, and IaC (Terraform to CDK and AWS to Azure), and DDD product discovery. Less than 2 quarters to become an elite performer.
Senior DevOps Lead and Coach
IBM
- Worked as a DevOps lead and coach. I moved more than 250 teams into the high-elite performance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Received the 2019 award with the prestigious IBM coin for the OKR company transformation.
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
DevOps Dojo
Fleet Management System
Refactoring the Bank's Core Asset into the Cloud
Education
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
Tools
GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Confluence, HashiCorp, Helm, JetBrains, Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI
Languages
Java, Python, JavaScript, Bash, Go
Paradigms
DevOps, XP, Test-driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test-driven Development (ATDD), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Microservices Architecture, Continuous Integration (CI), Event Storming, Agile Software Development, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Agile, Extreme Programming
Platforms
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Unix, Amazon EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, MacOS, Azure, AWS IoT
Storage
MySQL
Frameworks
Robot, Dojo
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, Cloud Security, Containers, Software Development, Agile DevOps, Lean Product Manager, Agile Transformation, Coaching, Training, Leadership, Product Owner, Executive Coaching, Negotiation, Data Warehouse Design, Scrum Coaching
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