Carlo Cassanelli
Carlo Cassanelli

CarloCassanelli

DevOps Engineer

Zurich, Switzerland

I build and run container platforms — OpenShift, Kubernetes and the Linux systems underneath them — with everything automated through Ansible, Helm and GitOps.

Experience

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09/2020 — Present

Senior System Engineer

ti&m · Zurich

Working in the Platform team on OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux systems and cloud platforms, and as a consultant for a finance-sector customer.

  • Contributed to the setup, development and maintenance of the IT infrastructure, guaranteeing availability of internal and customer applications.
  • Built and administered OpenShift clusters following GitOps best practices, reducing application 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 while maintaining version control and consistency.
  • Autonomously engineered a robust and secure Kafka cluster for a finance client, enabling configuration and deployment via Ansible. Delivered comprehensive documentation and internal guidelines, and implemented ACME automation to drastically reduce manual certificate management.
  • Designed and implemented a detailed concept for Ansible Automation Platform, following 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.
07/2020 — 09/2020

Frontend Developer

Capgemini · Remote
  • Worked remotely for illimity bank as a frontend developer. Technologies and tools: React, TypeScript, Redux-Saga, Fluent UI, Azure DevOps, React Developer Tools, Redux DevTools, Git, Conventional Commits.
10/2019 — 03/2020

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Digital Garage — Switzerland Academy · Milan
  • Development of "TicketNow", a platform connecting people who want to sell concert tickets. Music preferences from the Spotify API, event data from TicketMaster. Three one-week sprints following Agile Scrum in a team of five. Technologies: React, Spring Boot, MySQL, Docker, GitLab CI/CD.
  • Deployment of a web application on 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. Made in collaboration with ti&m, a Swiss IT service provider based in Zurich.
  • Individual study program with the Linux Academy platform and other online resources, passing three certifications: Google Cloud Associate Engineer, LPIC-1 (exams 101 and 102) and AWS Cloud Practitioner.
03/2019 — 09/2019

Web Developer

Softeam SpA · Lecco
  • Development of a full-stack web application with Spring Boot and JPA on the backend and Angular on the frontend.
  • C# and JavaScript web development.
07/2018 — 09/2018

Web Developer

MT Consulting Group SRLs · Lecco
  • Website development and maintenance.
  • Development of a web application for managing clients, tasks and employees.
04/2018 — 07/2018

University Internship

Università degli Studi di Milano · Milan

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.

Education

2015 — 2018

Università degli Studi di Milano

Bachelor Degree

Computer Science for Digital Communication

Final grade 99/110

09/2016 — 02/2017

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Erasmus+

Informatics Engineering

2009 — 2014

Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore 'A. Badoni'

Technical Certificate

Specialization in Informatics

Skills

Containers & Orchestration

  • OpenShift
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Podman
  • Advanced Cluster Management
  • Advanced Cluster Security
  • Red Hat Quay

Cloud

  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Amazon Web Services

Systems & Automation

  • Linux
  • Ansible
  • Ansible Automation Platform

Data & Messaging

  • Apache Kafka

Networking & Security

  • Firewall
  • Web Application Firewall

Source & Delivery

  • Git
  • GitLab
  • ArgoCD
  • Helm

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • PRTG

Languages

LanguageLevelCertificates
ItalianMother tongue—
EnglishB2FIRST, TOEIC
SpanishB2—
GermanA2TELC

Certifications

Google Cloud skill badges

Courses

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Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Configuring a Production Cluster (DO280)01/2026

Configuring an OpenShift cluster for production use: authentication with identity providers, role-based access control, securing workloads with security context constraints, network policies and ingress, resource quotas and limits, persistent storage, and the cluster monitoring stack.

Red Hat Training
Red Hat OpenShift Administration I: Operating a Production Cluster (DO180)01/2026

Operating applications on an OpenShift cluster: deploying and managing workloads from the web console and the command line, working with pods, deployments, services and routes, exposing and scaling applications, connecting them to storage, and troubleshooting the running cluster.

Red Hat Training
Introduction to Ansible11/2020

Server automation is a challenge facing many growing enterprises. Ansible is one solution that scales to a large enterprise, which makes it attractive. The course covers the features that let Ansible address the server-automation challenge, the underlying technology and how to use it.

A Cloud Guru

Certificate

Cloud Architecture with Google Cloud Specialization10/2020

A six-course accelerated professional certificate exploring and deploying solution elements — including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and application services — on Google Cloud Platform, turning prior technical skills into practical skills for the cloud architect role.

Coursera

Certificate

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition)03/2020

A digital, self-paced course giving an overall understanding of the AWS Cloud independent of specific technical roles: a detailed overview of cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing and support.

AWS Training and Certification
LPIC-1: System Administrator Exam 102 (v5 Objectives)02/2020

Shells and shell scripting, interfaces and desktops, administrative tasks, essential system services, networking fundamentals, security.

Linux Academy
LPIC-1: System Administrator Exam 101 (v5 Objectives)01/2020

System architecture, Linux installation and package management, GNU and Unix commands, devices, Linux filesystems, filesystem hierarchy standard.

Linux Academy

Certificate

Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer12/2019

Set up a cloud solution environment. Plan and configure a cloud solution. Deploy and implement a cloud solution. Ensure successful operation of a cloud solution. Configure access and security.

Linux Academy

Certificate

Web Developer Bootcamp2018 — 2019

Online bootcamp on web development: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap 4, Node.js, npm, Express, REST, MongoDB, Passport.js.

Udemy

Certificate

HTML, CSS, JavaScript01/2017

40-hour course on HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery.

Jedi Junior Empresa, Barcelona

Certificate

UX / UI Design03/2017

A 40-hour course on design process basics, introduction to HCI, app analysis, idea generation, product definition statements, user flows, UX best practices, wireframes, UI best practices, microinteractions and paper prototyping.

Fastweb Digital Academy, Milan

Certificate

Events

Conferences

Workshops & webinars

Webpack03/2019

Webpack introduction, installing and running webpack, imports/exports and webpack modules, configuration, CSS and Sass loaders, cache busting and plugins, splitting dev and production, HTML/file/clean loaders, multiple entry points and vendor bundles, extracting CSS and minifying HTML, CSS and JS.

Colt Steele

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MongoDB: Back to Basics02/2019

Introduction to MongoDB. A first MongoDB application with Atlas. Schema design basics. Indexing and aggregation. Scalability through replication and sharding.

mongodb.com

More info

React + Redux24/01/2019

An introduction to the React library for developing modern single-page applications.

eNetworks.it
Break the test: the coding workshop13/12/2018

Test automation workshop: how to make code stronger. Code analysis and test automation. Introduction to TypeScript.

Facile.it — JEMP

Portfolio

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Coronavirus Informazioni Italia03/2020

An information centre for COVID-19 in Italy.

  • Frontend: JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap
  • Deployment: Netlify

GitHub repo

Web App Deployment on GCP11/2019

Deployment of a web application on Google Cloud Platform in a secure and scalable manner.

  • Cloud: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Cloud SQL, Stackdriver
  • Firewall: Airlock WAF
  • Backend: Spring Boot
  • Frontend: JavaScript

Presentation

TicketNow10/2019

A platform connecting people who want to sell concert tickets. Music preferences come from the Spotify API and event data from TicketMaster. Three one-week sprints following Agile Scrum in a team of five.

  • Backend: Spring Boot
  • Frontend: React, React Bootstrap
  • Database: MySQL
  • Deployment: GitLab CI/CD on DigitalOcean

MEAN Blog02/2019

A blog web application built on the MEAN stack.

  • Backend: Node.js, Express, Mongoose, Passport, JWT
  • Frontend: Angular 7, Bootstrap 4
  • Database: MongoDB Atlas

GitHub repo

Risultati Fitet02/2019

Web application for visualizing FITET (Federazione Italiana Tennis Tavolo) scores and results.

  • Backend: Node.js, Express, Cheerio (web scraping)
  • Frontend: Angular 7, Bootstrap 4

Tic Tac Toe02/2019

A simple Tic Tac Toe game, made for fun.

  • Frontend: Angular 7
  • Deployment: GitHub Pages

GitHub repocassanellicarlo.github.io/tris

Digital Agency Manager07–09/2018

Web application for managing clients, tasks and employees.

  • Backend: Java
  • Database: MySQL
  • Frontend: Angular 6, Bootstrap 4

Project details

Easy 4.0 Chatbot05–07/2018

Application for the intelligent management of home appliances, based on chatbot technology.

  • Backend: PHP
  • Database: MySQL
  • Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Apache Cordova
  • CI platform: Dialogflow

Project details

GeoPost01–02/2018

An Android-native and cross-platform application for a geolocation-based social network.

  • Native app: Android
  • Cross-platform app: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Apache Cordova

Project details

La Forchetta03–05/2017

A web application for searching and booking restaurants.

  • Backend: PHP
  • Database: MySQL
  • Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery

Project details

Interests