CARLO CASSANELLI
Cloud & Systems Engineer

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Experience

Senior System Engineer

ti&m (Zurich)

  • Working in the Platform team on OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux systems and Cloud Platforms
  • Working within the Platform Team and as a consultant for our finance sector customer, I made significant contributions:
    • Contributed to the setup, development and maintenance of the IT infrastructure, guaranteeing availability of internal and customers applications.
    • Built and Administered OpenShift clusters following GitOps best practices, reducing applications downtime and improving automation.
    • Designed and implemented Helm Charts for OpenShift cluster configuration, integrated with ArgoCD and GitOps principles, ensuring seamless and automated application deployment and management while maintaining version control and consistency.
    • Autonomously engineered a robust and secure Kafka cluster tailored for a finance client, enabling seamless configuration and deployment via Ansible. Delivered comprehensive documentation and internal guidelines, while implementing ACME automation to drastically reduce manual certificate management.
    • Designed and implemented a detailed concept for Ansible Automation Platform, following the best practices on permissions and release management, facilitating the company's automation and deployment processes.
    • Migrated Red Hat Quay from a VM-based installation to an OpenShift deployment, automating the setup via Ansible and redefining the RBAC concept.
09/2020 - Now
Frontend Developer

Capgemini (Remote)

  • Working remotely for Illimity bank as a Frontend Developer. Technologies and tools: React, TypeScript, Redux-Saga, Fluent UI, Azure DevOps, VS Code, React Developer Tools, Redux DevTools, Git, Conventional Commits.
07/2020 - 09/2020
Cloud DevOps Engineer

Digital Garage - Switzerland Academy (Milan)

  • Development of "TicketNow", a platform to connect people who want to sell tickets for concerts. Music preferences are taken from Spotify APIs and events data from TicketMaster. 3 Sprints (1 week each) following Agile SCRUM in a team of 5 people. Technologies: React, Spring Boot, MySQL, Docker, GitLab CI/CD.
  • Deployment of a Web Application in Google Cloud Platform in a secure and scalable manner. Technologies and Tools: Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud SQL, MongoDB, Load Balancer, Stackdriver, Airlock WAF. This project was made in collaboration with ti&m, an innovative Swiss IT-service provider based in Zurich.
  • Individual study program with the Linux Academy platform and other online resources to pass three certifications in this order: Google Cloud Associate Engineer, LPIC-1 (Exam 101 and Exam 102), AWS Cloud Practitioner (Online Proctored).
10/2019 - 03/2020
Web Developer

Softeam SpA (Lecco)

  • Development of a Full Stack Web Application with Spring Boot, JPA (Back End) and Angular (Front End)
  • C# and JavaScript Web Development
03/2019 - 09/2019
Web Developer

MT Consulting Group SRLs (Lecco)

  • Websites development and maintenance
  • Development of a web application for managing clients, tasks and employees
07/2018 - 09/2018
University Internship

Università degli Studi di Milano

Development of an application for the intelligent management of home appliances based on chatbot technology.

  • Analysis of the state of the art
  • Conversation and flow design
  • Design and development of the application
04/2018 - 07/2018

Education

Università degli studi di Milano

Bachelor Degree

Computer Science for Digital Communication

99/110

2015 - 2018
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Erasmus +

Informatics Engineering
09/2016 - 02/2017
Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore 'A. Badoni'

Technical Certificate

Specialization in Informatics

2009 - 2014

Skills

OpenShift Kubernetes Docker Podman
Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) Advanced Cluster Security (ACS)
Google Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services
Linux
Ansible Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat Quay
Apache Kafka
Firewall Web Application Firewall
Git GitLab
PRTG Grafana Prometheus

Certifications

Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator Badge
Certified Kubernetes Administrator Badge
LPIC-1 Certification Badge
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Badge
Google Cloud Associate Certification Badge
AWS Cloud Practitioner Badge
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Certified Associate
Confluent Fundamentals - Apache Kafka Badge

Qwiklabs Skills Badges

Google Cloud Setup and configure cloud environments
Google Cloud Deploy to Kubernetes
Google Cloud Build and secure networks
Google Cloud Deploy and manage cloud environments
Google Cloud Foundational infrastructure

Language Skills

Language Level Certificates
Italian Mother Tongue
English B2 FIRST, TOEIC
Spanish B2
German A2 TELC

Courses

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Events

Conferences
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GDG DevParty Together
02-03/05/2020
AWSome Day Online Conference
05/03/2020
Codemotion 2018
29/11/2018
Codemotion 2015
20/11/2015
Codemotion 2014
28/11/2014
Workshops / Webinars
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Portfolio

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Interests

  • Table Tennis

    I'm currently playing with TTC Zurich Affoltern in team championship and individual tournaments.

  • Football

    I like playing football with friends (for fun!). We use Fubles, an application for organizing matches.

  • Cycling

    I love taking my bike, go to the mountains and discover new trails!

  • Craft Beer

    Just taste a good craft beer. There are a lot of styles, but IPA is my favourite.

  • Tv Series

    Who doesn't love Netflix? One of my favourites series are Lost, Black Mirror, Narcos, Gomorra, Suburra.

  • Travel

    I really like travelling, discover new amazing places, understand different cultures and meet new friends! Find my on FindPenguins