Umberto Domenico Ciccia's CV
- Phone: ['+39 331 886 5017', '+353 85 726 7399']
- Email: umbertociccia@icloud.com
- GitHub: umbertocicciaa
- LinkedIn: umberto-domenico-ciccia
Experience
Amazon Web Services (AWS), System Dev Engineer
Dublin, Ireland Nov 2025 – present
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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.
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Maintained reliability of Route 53 services in sovereign regions, achieving 99.999% availability through incident response and RCA-driven improvements.
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Supported infrastructure deployment for AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling compliant in-region operations.
NTT Data Italia S.p.A., Cloud Engineer
Cosenza, Italy Jan 2025 – Oct 2025
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Built CI/CD pipelines on GCP to deploy Dataflow pipelines processing 10k+ daily records, improving data availability and release reliability.
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Designed multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS + on-prem) using Terraform and Kubernetes, improving deployment consistency and reducing failure rates by 70%.
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Developed microservices (Quarkus, Crossplane) to automate infrastructure policy management and optimize cloud resource allocation.
Vision One S.r.l., Software Engineer
Recanati, Italy July 2024 – Dec 2024
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Developed scheduling system in .NET/Blazor, improving task allocation efficiency by 80%.
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Refactored legacy codebase, reducing unused code by 60% and improving maintainability.
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Introduced automated testing (xUnit), increasing test coverage to 80%.
Caliò Informatica S.r.l., Software Engineer
Cosenza, Italy Mar 2024 – July 2024
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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.
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Optimized OpenAI API consumption through request redesign and prompt engineering strategies, reducing operational costs by 80% while improving response performance by 60%.
Projects
AWS MlOps
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Built end-to-end ML pipeline (Terraform, SageMaker) for training, evaluation, and real-time inference.
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Automated model promotion and deployment using Lambda and performance thresholds.
Italian Db
- Designed and implemented an educational DBMS from scratch to explore core database internals, including query execution, storage management, and data structure design.
Raspberry Pi 4 Kubernetes Cluster
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Designed and deployed a 3-node K3s cluster with CI/CD, ingress (Traefik), and observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana).
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Implemented secure networking (DNS, SSH, static IPs) and production-style workload deployment.
Skills
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
Education
Università della Calabria, Cyber Security Engineering
M.Sc.
Università della Calabria, Computer Engineering
B.Sc.
Extra
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Won the AWS Jam for NTT Data.
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Participated in the MLSysOps Hackathon, designing Kubernetes-based policies for reliable ML deployments with Prometheus/Grafana observability, autoscaling, and automated rollouts.
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Lead The Future Mentee, a highly selective STEM mentorship program with an acceptance rate below 20%.
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Maintainer of Unical<3Telegram, GitHub platform used by 2000+ DIMES students for exam preparation and resource sharing unicallovetelegram.github.io/IndiceArgomentiOrale.