Andrea Florio
Network Team Tech Lead And Architect at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolAndrea Florio is a network architect and hands-on tech lead with 17 years of experience designing and operating large-scale LAN, DC and global WAN/SD-WAN infrastructures across enterprise and cloud environments. Currently leading network architecture and assurance at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, he owns on-prem and Azure cloud networking, drives global standardization after mergers, and led a global Fortinet ADVPN-SDWAN rollout. A VXLAN-EVPN, Netconf/YANG and automation specialist with CCIE R&S certification, Andrea blends deep protocol expertise (BGP, ARP/ND filtering work in open-source Suzieq) with practical deliverables like centralized firewall management and AAA/monitoring standards. He has significant customer-facing and pre/post-sales experience from AT&T and Systal, including private/hybrid cloud and Kubernetes transformations, and contributed Pihole support to the widely used external-dns project. Known for pairing strategic architecture with code-level contributions, he often converts one-off solutions into scalable, automated platforms. Based in Brno, he brings a continuous-improvement mindset and a rare mix of operational escalation ownership and open-source tinkering.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
informatica, Informatica, Diploma di Maturità Scientifica, matematica, chimica, fisica, informatica, Informatica, Diploma di Maturità Scientifica, matematica, chimica, fisica at Università degli Studi di Bari
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
python10
network-analysis10
networking10
go10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
external-dns10
apidoc9
api9
bgp9
network-monitoring8
cli7
iframe6
opensearch-dashboards6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
netenglabs/suzieq
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
Using network observability to operate and design healthier networks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 27 PRs, 51 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the `suzieq` project by enhancing its network observability capabilities. They added features for filtering and querying BGP and ARP/ND data. This involved modifying command-line interface (CLI) commands, adding arguments to filter outputs based on specific criteria. Furthermore, they addressed bug fixes by adding missing commas and descriptions in existing code.
pythonnetwork-automationdata-centeroperateinfrastructure
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the integration of the Pihole DNS provider within the external-dns project. Their work involved adding the necessary code to support the Pihole API, including listing, creating, and deleting DNS records. This involved implementing the piholeClient, configuring API calls, and integrating with the external-dns framework. The user's commits show the addition of the necessary configuration options within the project's configuration files and the integration of the Pihole provider's functionality.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
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