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# Hi, I'm [Aldo D'Aquino!](https://ald.ooo) 👋



🧑‍💻 I'm a senior Infrastructure Engineer at [@BendingSpoons](https://github.com/BendingSpoons).\

🙌 I'm positive-minded by nature. I adapt to situations. I like new challenges. I learn fast.\

💡 I'm extemely curious. I love experiment with new technologies, learn new things, and try new programming languages.\

💬 I communicate a lot. I foster dialogue and give honest feedback. I train new hires and mentor some univeristy students.\

🌎 I live in Tuscany, close to the sea. This is one of the benefits of fully-remote work, which is a hard requirement for my life balance.\

🤹 I'm a public speaker and open-source developer.



## Resume



### 🧑‍💻 Technical Experience



#### Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ [Bending Spoons](https://bendingspoons.com)



_October 2020 - Present_



**Projects**



- Design and implement the monitoring stack, composed by Prometheus, Mimir, and Grafana. Lead the adoption and spread the obserbility culture in the company.

- Design and implement the Kubernetes clusters and connected facilities for a smooth migration and integration with existing systems.

- Design and implement a self-desk platform that let teams autonomously bootstrap required resource while automatically enforcing best practices and security checks.

- Review, redesign and refactor the Evernote cloud infrastructure. Repay technical debt. Optimize costs. Improve developer experience and security. Consolidate the infrastructure and make it more resilient, observable, and operable.



**Other resposibilities**



- Maintain and improve infrastructure building blocks, such as Terraform modules, CircleCI orbs, and Helm charts. Maintain platform tools such as monitoring, clusters, and other internal tooling.

- Assist teams in complex migrations and infrastructure refactorings. Discuss infrastructure choices and review architectural design documents.

- Train new hires. Provide feedback to teammates. Run performance reviews.

- Collect data on developers productivity, run user interviews. Pragmatically propose new assets, tooling, or technologies to improve their efficiency. Validate assumptions with PoCs.

- Propose, discuss, and enforce best practices for the cloud. Provide tooling to ease their adoption.



### 🧑‍🎓 Education



### MSc in [ICT Solution Architect](https://didattica.di.unipi.it/laurea-magistrale-in-informatica/curricula/curriculum-ict-solutions-architect) (110/110 with honors)



_2020 - Pisa University_



**[Master Thesis](https://etd.adm.unipi.it/theses/available/etd-07012020-122949/):** Design, prototyping, and validation of a Kubernetes Operator to orchestrate a proprietary IoT platform on Red Hat OpenShift.\

**Internship @ [Extra Red](https://extrared.it).**



**Acquired knowledge**



- ICT Infrastructures, Cloud and Green Computing

- Parallel and Distributed Systems

- ICT Risk Assessment

- Cryptography, Security Methods and Verification, Cloud Security

- Mobile and Cyber-physical Systems, IoT

- Peer to Peer Systems, Blockchains

- Artificial Intelligence, Smart Applications

- Information Retrieval

- Data Mining

- Database design

- Computability and Complexity, Numerical Computing, Statistics and Probability Theory

- Algorithm Engineering



**Projects**



- [ArtGuide](https://github.com/SmartAppUnipi/ArtGuide): AR, AI project. I lead user stories and product desing and implemented the [core service](https://github.com/SmartAppUnipi/ArtGuide/tree/master/ir) and the deployment pipelines.

- [BeepBeep](https://github.com/ytbeepbeep): Web application to keep track of our fitness runs. We split a monolith in a microservices application.

- [COBrA](https://github.com/daquinoaldo/COBrA): An Ethereum blockchain DAPP.

- [eWee](https://github.com/daquinoaldo/eWee): Ensuring Wellness with Energy Efficiency, a domotic IoT project.



### Bachelor in Computer Science



**Final Thesis:** Docker Orchestrator for Web Hosting. The project is available on [daquinoaldo/Pier](https://github.com/daquinoaldo/Pier).



## 🎙️ Public Speaking



- **[dianacodes](https://youtu.be/eiHQ-VEFAA4):** [@dianaberna](https://github.com/dianaberna) interviewed me in her YouTube channel where she mentor aspiring developers.

- **[OK Google, configuriamo il VPS](https://youtu.be/LyAzDwg5b-Q?t=5940):** Online talk about [my VPS configuration](https://medium.com/@daquinoaldo/my-server-setup-reverse-proxy-and-free-ssl-thanks-to-traefik-and-docker-4e7fa161e30f) at the [GDG DevParty Together 2020](https://www.gdgdevparty.it/schedule/2020-05-02?sessionId=12).

- **[Ma Docker cos'è?](https://pointerpodcast.it/p/pointer13-ma-docker-cos%C3%A8/):** I was host in a Pointer Podcast episode.

- **[npm-init](https://github.com/daquinoaldo/nodejs-codelab):** A basic node.js course. No slides, no previous knowledge need. Just live coding and Q&A.Streamed online during the coronavirus lockdown.

- **[PWA from scratch](https://github.com/daquinoaldo/pwa-workshop)**: Talk and workshop on Progressive Web App organized for the [GDG Pisa](https://gdgpisa.it/others/2019/11/06/pwa-from-scratch.html) at [GATE Centre](https://www.gatecentre.eu).

- **[Come diventare sviluppatori open source](http://linuxday2019.gulp.linux.it/seminari#:~:text=Come%20diventare%20sviluppatori%20open%20source):** Motivational talk on how to become open source developers at [Linux Day Pisa 2019](http://linuxday2019.gulp.linux.it/profili#Daquino).

- **[PWA for dummies](https://github.com/daquinoaldo/pwa4dummies):** Workshop about Progressive Web App @ [GDG DevFest Pisa 2019](https://2019.devfest.gdgpisa.it/schedule/2019-04-13?sessionId=208).



## 📝 Latest posts on [Medium](https://medium.com/@daquinoaldo)





Traefik + Docker + OAuth: a free reverse proxy with TSL and Google OAuth2




Advantages of the solution 🕵️‍♂️



A clean and tidy server, with nothing installed on but Docker...


February 6, 2021





JAMstack with Stackbit, Forestry, Jekyll and Netlify




TL; DR

Stackbit is fine if you want a modern and static blog, in less than 1 hour, without web...


April 26, 2020





My server setup: reverse-proxy and free SSL thanks to Traefik and Docker




My server setup: reverse-proxy and free SSL on Docker thanks to Traefik

I show you my VPS setup...


March 26, 2020



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