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Lorenzo Girardi - Curriculum Vitae

Lorenzo Girardi

Platform Architect

 

 

 

Personal Profile

#semi-serious

Always been passionate about technology, 
towards late 90's I was a regular on irc's exploit crew/clan channels
I learned that I had to learn a lot more than just throwing an exploit.
In the early 2000s, I lived on packetstormsecurity and the like.

Ignoring any advice from my family about continuing a profession
"physical" of architecture (I was/am a surveyor), I enrolled at the University of Insubria with an IT address.
Once again what was delivered (thanks to Italian universities) was
very far from the needs of the world of work.

I started gaining experience in an Italian e-commerce company (eprice srl),
here I learned how everything I studied was 90% ineffective.
I divided myself between user support (helpdesk), internal server room, and production servers ...
The helpdesk part made me understand that machines were better than humans (I don't know if you can define a skill)

Looking for new motivations, but also a remuneration able of making me survive, I took advantage of the body rental to see different realities and with very varied orders of magnitude.

I then come to the most exciting experience that hasn't finished yet, in 2011 I land to bravofly.
The company is in strong growth going from a startup to something more.
In front of me, I had very different technologies used in another way from the "usual"
Here I begin to deal first of all with the windows infrastructure that manages the .net applications

I take advantage of the ability to interact with the Linux layers to continue
the exploration of the open-source world that I have always followed.

After a few years, I manage to have my dimension and the ability to impact the changes, from there to a few years I acquired the necessary confidence to manage a technical team as a team leader

As I grew older, I noticed that I was able to be happy seeing my teams deliver results
I, therefore, accepted a managerial position following +12 people

During these 3 years, everyone remained alive, no one was mistreated, and apparently, they are also happy with the work done together.

Lately, I've felt the need to focus on the architectural part of the infrastructure, moving from manager to architect, to lead the infrastructure overall, datacenter on-prem, cloud, and third-party solutions
amalgamating product and technology in a common direction, reducing business "follies",
create flows and processes that can lead to innovation in compliance with pci/gdpr , good sense...
chanting for "keep it simple" and "If it isn't there, it can't break" and other buzzwords 


AREAS OF EXPERIENCE

Site reliability engineer

Datacenter management

People management

Business projects

Virtualization technology

Networking

Cloud

Operating systems

High Traffic infrastructures Monitoring

Observability

Kubernetes

PCI DSS

Automation

Architecture

Infrastructure as a code

 

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Java – tomcat – jboss –springboot – javamelody – jmx

.Net – iis – sql server – cluster WSFC – alwaysON – iis ARR – cluster NLB

Apache – mod balancer – mod proxy balancer – mod jk – mod cluster

Nginx – vts module – ingress – traefik – kong - haproxy

Vmware esxi 6.7/7 – veeam backup / replication

Rhev – ovirt

AWS – s3 - vpc – peering – loadbalancer – cloudformation – opsworks – api gateway - transit gateway

Azure – powershell cli – database as service

Puppet – jenkins – pipeline – rundeck – spacewalk - ansible – terraform – packer - spinnaker

Monitoring – nagios handlers – cacti – grafana – collectd – telegraf - statsd - influxdb – carbon – graphite – prometheus – cortex - loki

Ldap – active directory – bind – domain trust – domain hierarchy - adfs – oauth - saml

Openvpn – strongswan – openswan – site to site – road warriors – traffic shaping – traffic inspection

K8s – kubernetes – docker – flanneld – etcd – service mash – apigw – containerd – kubespray – hpa - autoscaling

Google cloud platform

 

 

Work Experience

 

Platform architect – BravoNEXT sa

Nov 2022 - present

SRE Team Manager – BravoNEXT sa

Jan 2019 - present

Duties:

  • Shape infrastructure environment
  • Drive teams to strive for success
  • Design new technology to improve the business
  • Technology abstraction to make easy the usage
  • Planning building with KPI and milestone roadmap
  • Infrastructure as a code
  • Sponsoring “keep it simple”
  • “If it isn't there, it can't break”
  • Sponsoring observability to create SLI SLO SLA
  • Create awareness of the products
  • Design for failure
  • Roles mindset oriented based on MS Active directory, adfs , openldap, oauth
  • Linux machines orchestration
  • Windows server orchestration
  • Virtualization infrastructure based on rhev/ovirt and vmware
  • Kubernetes infrastructure management on-prem / hybrid /cloud
  • Network management ipsec open source strongswan , openswan and cisco and fortinet
  • PCI DSS management and improvements
  • Extensive knowledge of kubernetes and microservices
  • Analysis and advantages of hybrid cloud
  • Infrastructure as a code with the most useful tool based on company strategy / teams / engagements

 

SRE Team Leader – BravoNEXT sa

May 2016 – 2018

 

System administrator – BravoNEXT sa

Jan 2012 – mid 2016

 

System administrator at Luxury Goods International LGI sa

contractor Temera sa 2011-2012

contractor IT Time sa 2010-2011

Manage and responsible of end users tools , vpn cisco, active directory structure , lotus domino server and a first level contact for as400 

  • Managing Mail Server Domino
  • Management of mobile service on Blackberry
  • Configuration and management VPN Cisco
  • Active Directory management GPO
  • AS400 jda , jd Edwards

 

System administrator at Eprice srl

2008-2010

System administrator CED Gallarate and business farm Milano 

  • Management remote data center on Colt (Milano) iNET (Settimo Milanese)
  • Configuration windows and linux server based on vmware esx4 and esxi 4.1
  • Deploy and configuration windows server 2000, 2003, 2008 standard enterprise for business solution
  • Deploy and configuration linux server for advanced internal solution (samba server, hw monitoring, performance monitoring, web employee portal , vpn server )
  • Iscsi and fiber storage configuration and management
  • Configuration and management of workstations working on Windows Xp e Windows 7.
  • Server backup management tape DELL
  • Network develop for company and other 30+ corner site
 
 
 
 

Education

Universita' degli studi dell'Insubria facolta' di informatica Information technology

2003-2008

Pier Luigi Nervi I.T.Geometri

1997- 2002