Umberto Domenico Ciccia's CV

Experience

Dublin, Ireland Nov 2025 – present

Unblocked a strategic customer launch by delivering DNSSEC support for Route 53 in AWS European Sovereign Cloud 3 weeks ahead of schedule, allowing the customer to migrate without modifying their existing infrastructure.
Maintained reliability of Route 53 services in sovereign regions, achieving 99.999% availability through incident response and RCA-driven improvements.
Supported infrastructure deployment for AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling compliant in-region operations.

Cosenza, Italy Jan 2025 – Oct 2025

Built CI/CD pipelines on GCP to deploy Dataflow pipelines processing 10k+ daily records, improving data availability and release reliability.
Designed multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS + on-prem) using Terraform and Kubernetes, improving deployment consistency and reducing failure rates by 70%.
Developed microservices (Quarkus, Crossplane) to automate infrastructure policy management and optimize cloud resource allocation.

Recanati, Italy July 2024 – Dec 2024

Developed scheduling system in .NET/Blazor, improving task allocation efficiency by 80%.
Refactored legacy codebase, reducing unused code by 60% and improving maintainability.
Introduced automated testing (xUnit), increasing test coverage to 80%.

Cosenza, Italy Mar 2024 – July 2024

Developed workflow-building capabilities for AIDA, an OpenAI-powered automation platform, enabling non-technical users to create AI workflows through a visual drag-and-drop interface inspired by n8n.
Optimized OpenAI API consumption through request redesign and prompt engineering strategies, reducing operational costs by 80% while improving response performance by 60%.

Built end-to-end ML pipeline (Terraform, SageMaker) for training, evaluation, and real-time inference.
Automated model promotion and deployment using Lambda and performance thresholds.

Designed and implemented an educational DBMS from scratch to explore core database internals, including query execution, storage management, and data structure design.

Designed and deployed a 3-node K3s cluster with CI/CD, ingress (Traefik), and observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana).
Implemented secure networking (DNS, SSH, static IPs) and production-style workload deployment.

Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Google Associate Cloud Engineer, Terraform Associate

Languages: Python, C#, Java, Bash, TypeScript, C, GO

Cloud & DevOps: AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD

Frontend: React, Angular, Blazor

Backend: .NET, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Django

Databases: PostgreSQL, SQLServer, MongoDB, Redis

M.Sc.

B.Sc.

Won the AWS Jam for NTT Data.
Participated in the MLSysOps Hackathon, designing Kubernetes-based policies for reliable ML deployments with Prometheus/Grafana observability, autoscaling, and automated rollouts.
Lead The Future Mentee, a highly selective STEM mentorship program with an acceptance rate below 20%.
Maintainer of Unical<3Telegram, GitHub platform used by 2000+ DIMES students for exam preparation and resource sharing unicallovetelegram.github.io/IndiceArgomentiOrale.