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Hi, I'm Umberto

I build production-ready ML platforms and resilient cloud infrastructure. I specialise in taking ideas from notebooks to reliable products. From opinionated MLOps frameworks and distributed runtimes, to hybrid multi-cloud architectures and developer tooling, I focus on delivering systems that people actually love to ship with.

Highlighted Projects

Opinionated tooling, hands-on infrastructure, and products that turn experiments into outcomes.

ChatGPT CLI terminal interface showing prompt, config, and logs commands

ChatGPT CLI

A modern, extensible command-line interface for ChatGPT with subcommand support, configuration management, and comprehensive logging.

  • Go
  • OpenAI
  • CLI
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Professors Reviews

Anonymous teacher and course review platform built for DIMES students, combining a modern React frontend with a FastAPI backend and PostgreSQL.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • Machine Learning
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DevOpsFix

LLM-powered CI/CD pipeline analyzer that validates pipelines and recommends fixes across multiple platforms.

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • React
  • LLM APIs
Easy MLOps architecture diagram showing CLI, Master API, Worker, and MLOpsPipeline

Easy MLOps

An end-to-end MLOps framework that automates experimentation, deployment, and observability through a unified CLI and Python API.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • MLflow
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Homelab Platform

A Raspberry Pi powered lab with Kubernetes, observability stack, and GitOps delivery for experimentation and edge workloads.

  • K3s
  • Grafana
  • Traefik
  • Raspberry Pi
QuestMasterAI showing story generation pipeline and interactive Streamlit adventure game

QuestMasterAI

CLI-first AI assistant that generates contextual quests and tasks using OpenAI, packaged for repeatable deployments.

  • Python
  • OpenAI
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
AWS MLOps Frontend

AWS MLOps

Reusable Terraform + SageMaker setup that trains, evaluates, registers, and deploys regression models on serverless infrastructure.

  • AWS
  • SageMaker
  • Terraform
  • Streamlit
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Purchase Manager

Multi-cloud expense tracking platform deployed on GCP with serverless components and automated governance.

  • GCP
  • Cloud Run
  • Cloud SQL
  • Terraform
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Analysis of airline flights

Big data lab that orchestrates Spark, Hadoop, and Hive locally to surface actionable insights from aviation datasets.

  • PySpark
  • Hadoop
  • Hive
  • Streamlit
Automation Lab showing Terraform modules for AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes

Automation Lab

Hands-on Terraform lab that teaches reusable infrastructure patterns across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes.

  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
SongFinder Android app showing song search, details with Genius API, and architecture

SongFinder

Android app that unlocks Genius API metadata with offline-friendly search history and rich song insights.

  • Kotlin
  • Android
  • Genius API
  • SQLite

Work Experience

Professional history.

November 2025 – Present

System Engineer · Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Built and delivery AWS’s first European Sovereign Cloud (EUSC), enabling EU customers to run secure, compliant, and fully locally hosted workloads, meeting strict EU regulatory and data-residency requirements.
  • Owned operations and lifecycle management of AWS IREO and AWS DNS infrastructure and all services dependent on it, including Amazon Route 53, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and compliance-driven isolation for sovereign workloads.
  • Partnered with multiple AWS service teams to own, deploy, and optimize core cloud services, improving service reliability, scalability, and operational readiness across the sovereign cloud environment.
January 2025 – October 2025

Cloud Engineer · NTT Data Italia

  • Engineered and developed a Jenkins pipeline that allows the deployment of new versions of a dataflow pipeline on Google Cloud for a client operating in the food industry.
  • Developed a highly reliable network infrastructure using Terraform, Google Partner Interconnect, VPC peering, and VPN tunnel to manage digital payments for a client operating in the food industry.
  • Implemented a hybrid on-premise/cloud AWS infrastructure using Terraform, integrating over 10 AWS services (S3, DMS, Aurora, ACM, SQS, VPC, ECR, EKS, etc.) for a digital marketing and online communication customer. Author of the Terraform EC2, SQS, and Glue modules of the infrastructure.
  • Implemented a full-stack web app to visualize and quantify internal Azure subscription costs. Deploy with Azure DevOps on Azure Web App.
  • Designed and implemented a Quarkus-based microservice leveraging FinOps best practices and the Vertex AI SDK to optimize multi-cloud infrastructure costs based on user-provided scenarios, enhancing cost efficiency and resource allocation.
  • Developed a high-performance microservice using Quarkus and Crossplane to act as an agent for managing Istio policies in remote Kubernetes clusters, enabling dynamic policy enforcement, reducing manual intervention, and improving system scalability.
  • Developed a Python script leveraging FinOps best practices and the Vertex AI SDK to generate the lowest-cost multi-cloud infrastructure based on user-provided scenarios, optimizing resource allocation and cost efficiency.
July 2024 – December 2024

Software Engineer · Vision One S.r.l

  • Developed integration tests using xUnit and Testcontainer, achieving 90% test coverage.
  • Integrated unit testing into OneWeb software, leading to 80% test coverage.
  • Designed a project activity scheduling algorithm using ASP.NET Core and Blazor MVVM, achieving a scheduling time of less than 1 second.
March 2024 – July 2024

Software Engineer · Caliò Informatica S.r.l

  • Enhanced visualization tools using .NET and Angular, improving management efficiency by 70%.
  • Developed a medical office web platform, accelerating patient data entry by 80%.
  • Optimized REST API calls to OpenAI, reducing costs by 80% and improving performance by 60%.

Skills

Programming Languages

C# Java Python Bash C TypeScript JavaScript

Cloud & DevOps

CI/CD GitOps MLOps Docker Kubernetes Terraform Crossplane Istio GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions Git Azure AWS GCP A/B Testing Canary Deployment Blue/Green Deployment

Linux & System Administration

SSH OpenSSL User Management File Permissions Bash Scripting System Monitoring Log Analysis Package Management K8s Cluster Setup K3s

Network

TCP UDP ISO/OSI DNS DHCP IPv4 Routing HTTP HTTPS MTU Firewall NAT

Frontend

Angular React Blazor HTML CSS GoJS jQuery Bootstrap Angular Material Syncfusion

Backend and Databases

.NET .NET Core ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Core Spring Boot Quarkus Django Streamlit xUnit bUnit JUnit SQL Server MongoDB PostgreSQL Redis MySQL

AI & Data

OpenAI MLOps Spark Hadoop TensorFlow Scikit-learn

Soft Skills

Flexibility Proactivity Collaboration Communication Positive Environment Charisma Teamwork

Languages

Italian (Native) English (Fluent)

Extra Activities

Community support and extra activities.

  • Contributed to GitHub Actions Marketplace.
  • Maintainer, administrator, and manager of Unical3Telegram, an open-source GitHub platform used by 2000+ DIMES students for exam preparation and resource sharing starred by over 50 users.

Hackathon

  • Participated and won in the AWS Jam for NTT Data, solving real-world cloud challenges focused on security, automation, and cost optimization, enhancing hands-on experience with AWS services and best practices in cloud architecture.
  • Participated to MlSysOps Hackathon organized from Università Della Calabria

Volunteering

Volunteering activities.

  • Among the few Italian students selected to be mentees for LeadTheFuture, a leading mentorship non-profit organization for students in STEM, with acceptance rate below 20%. LeadTheFuture empowers top-performing students to achieve their goals and contribute to their communities by giving them one-on-one guidance from high-impact mentors coming from the world's leading STEM innovation hubs such as Silicon Valley and CERN.

Education

Strong theoretical foundation that complements hands-on engineering work.

Jul 2021 – Jul 2024

BSc Computer Engineering · Università della Calabria

  • Graduated with 109/110, ranking in the top third of the cohort.
  • Among the top 1/3 of students to graduate in the first available session.
  • Relevant Courses: Web and Mobile Application Development (30L/30), Software Engineering (27/30), Databases (29/30), Information Systems (27/30), Computer Networks (27/30)
  • Specialised in web & mobile development, software engineering, databases, and computer networks.

Certifications

Continuously investing in community-recognised credentials across cloud, Kubernetes, and automation.

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) View badge →
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) View badge →
Terraform Associate (003) View badge →
Google Associate Cloud Engineer View badge →
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate View badge →
Google Cloud Digital Leader View badge →
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) View badge →
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner View badge →
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Let's Build Something

Available for collaborations, advisory roles, and teams that need a pragmatic engineer to turn ML projects into resilient products.