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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