Analyzing U.S. Air Flights with Apache Spark and Hadoop

For my university course in Big Data and Cloud Computing, I developed a hands-on project to process and analyze U.S. domestic flight data using a big data pipeline built on Apache Spark, Hadoop and Hive. 📂 Project Repository on GitHub ✈️ Project Overview The dataset comes from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and includes over 20 years of flight records across domestic U.S. routes. It contains rich details such as: ...

June 9, 2025 · 2 min · Umberto Domenico Ciccia

End-to-End MLOps on AWS with CI/CD, GitOps, and Kubernetes

A complete walkthrough of building a production-grade MLOps pipeline using AWS Glue, SageMaker, Terraform, and Kubernetes — with automated CI/CD and GitOps for infrastructure and frontend deployment.

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · Umberto Domenico Ciccia

My Open Source Contribution

Contributing to the Open Source Giants: Jenkins & Kubernetes This past week marked a milestone in my journey as a software engineer: I submitted my very first pull requests to two of the most influential open source projects in the DevOps ecosystem — Jenkins and Kubernetes. Anyone who knows me understands that tech is more than just a passion — it’s a full-blown obsession. I live and breathe code, constantly learning, breaking things, and rebuilding better. As someone deeply interested in Cloud Engineering and DevOps, contributing to these foundational tools has always been on my personal roadmap. ...

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · Umberto Domenico Ciccia

Gcp Ace Notes

Admin Sdk gcloud cli client libraries sdk linguaggi programmazione bq bigquery gsutil cloud storage Resource hierarchy Projects: contains all resources, lowest level of org Organization: top level hierarchy, contains all folder, all projects need a cloud identity or a google woekspace account Folders: logic group of projects Google Cloud Console’s Resource Manager: console for manage folder, projects and org Projects metadata Project name: name of the project can be edited Project id ...

April 26, 2025 · 10 min · Umberto Domenico Ciccia

How I Passed the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) Exam

Introduction Passing the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) certification was a major milestone in my cloud journey. In this post, I’ll walk through the resources I used, how I structured my study plan, and key tips that helped me succeed — especially if you’re balancing this with work or studies like I was. Why ACE? The ACE certification is a great entry point for understanding Google Cloud Platform (GCP) fundamentals. It’s hands-on, focused on real-world tasks like deploying apps, managing projects, configuring networks, and handling IAM policies — all of which are essential for any cloud engineer. ...

April 24, 2025 · 3 min · Umberto Domenico Ciccia