About Me
Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 15+ years of experience, from on-prem datacenter to cloud-native. I work on infrastructure, cloud (AWS, Kubernetes), networking, automation (Terraform, CI/CD), observability and security.
My Story
My passion for IT started young, taking apart and reassembling computers to understand how they work. That curiosity turned into a career in IT.
Over the years I moved from traditional sysadmin and on-prem networking to modern cloud-native: from a London startup to large companies, building and running infrastructure, automation and security on increasingly complex systems.
Today I focus on cloud and hybrid infrastructure, containers and Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code and DevOps — with a hands-on, end-to-end approach to problem solving.
Information
- Name:
- Davide Stallone
- Born:
- November 25, 1981
- Residence:
- Varese, Italy
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Languages:
- Italian, English
Professional Experience
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
DigitalRiot SA, Chiasso (CH)
Senior cross-functional role integrating system, cloud, networking, DevOps/DevSecOps, SRE and cyber security. Stack: AWS (EKS multi-account), CloudFlare, Kubernetes, Helm, Rancher, Terraform, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jenkins, GitOps.
Senior Network & System Engineer for DevSecOps
Paradox Engineering SA, Novazzano (CH)
Technical lead of a small team on enterprise on-premise Kubernetes platforms. RKE/RKE2, Velero, Kasten K10, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Prometheus, Grafana.
Senior Network & System Engineer
AREA SpA, Vizzola Ticino (VA), Italy
Design, deployment and troubleshooting of systems and infrastructures for network services. Multi-server enterprise architectures for international clients.
ICT System Administrator
Althea, Gallarate (VA), Italy
Data networks and server systems in healthcare. Healthcare/imaging standards: RIS, PACS, HL7, DICOM.
ICT System Administrator
Gandalf Service S.A.S., Cologno Monzese (MI), Italy
Installation, configuration and maintenance of the entire ICT stack (servers, clients, network, security, backup, virtualization) for business clients.
Founder & Director
Pandora Softwares Ltd, London (UK)
Software development company founded and personally managed in the UK. Mobile (iOS, Android), web (HTML5, PHP, MySQL), software security analysis.
ICT Consultant
Personal & Freelance Activities
Personal and freelance activities run in parallel with main jobs since teenage years. Sysadmin, networking, security, software development for small clients.
Technical Skills
Cloud
- AWS (EKS, IAM/IRSA, RDS, ALB, Route53, Lambda)
- CloudFlare
- Azure
- Google Cloud
Container & orchestration
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Rancher
- Docker
- containerd
- Podman
- OpenShift
IaC & Automation
- Terraform (HCL)
- Ansible
- Kickstart
- GitOps
CI/CD
- Jenkins
- GitHub
- GitLab CI
Observability
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- YACE
- Zabbix
- Graylog
- ELK
On-prem networking
- L2/L3 switching (VLAN, STP, LACP)
- Routing (OSPF, BGP)
- Enterprise firewalls (PaloAlto, SonicWall, Cisco)
- IPsec VPN (OpenVPN, WireGuard)
- Wireless 802.1X/RADIUS
- DMZ design
Security
- HashiCorp Vault
- WAF (AWS/CloudFlare)
- Hardening
- SAST
- Penetration testing (black/white-box)
Virtualization & Storage
- VMware
- Proxmox
- Hyper-V
- KVM
- Citrix
- NAS/DAS/SAN
- Ceph
Databases
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
- MongoDB
- Redis
Languages
- Go
- Bash
- HCL
- YAML
- Python
- PHP
- JavaScript
- SQL
AI & LLM
- Agentic workflows
- Self-hosted LLM (Ollama)
- RAG
- AI integration into processes