Antonio Messina
Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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SeniorAntonio Messina is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Zurich with 14 years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud and HPC infrastructures, currently at Google. He combines a strong IT and mathematical background with hands-on expertise in automation, cloud architecture, and SRE practices, having built and managed multi-petabyte storage and thousands of cores at the University of Zurich. Antonio contributed to open-source projects like elasticluster, integrating Ansible, Jenkins and Slurm to automate cluster provisioning, and has a history of developing Python frameworks for batch and grid computing. His career spans roles from system administration and HPC support to cloud architect and technical solutions engineering, giving him deep operational empathy and troubleshooting chops. Known for automating repetitive work and templating complex deployments, he often surfaces elegant, reproducible solutions to thorny infrastructure problems. Antonio’s profile reflects a blend of academic-scale systems experience and production SRE at hyperscale, with a penchant for turning manual workflows into reliable, automated pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Italian, English, French, German
Github Skills (12)
configuration-management10
infrastructure-as-code10
ansible-galaxy10
automation10
automations10
python10
aac10
ansible10
slurm9
jenkins-ci9
jenkins9
cloud-computing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elasticluster/elasticluster
Mar 2013 - May 2017
Create clusters of VMs on the cloud and configure them with Ansible.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Python Developer
DevOps Engineer & Python DeveloperContributions:616 commits, 12 pushes, 16 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Antonio contributed to the configuration and setup of various systems within the elasticluster project, including Jenkins and Slurm. Their work involved the creation of configuration files, specifically templated configurations in XML and Jinja2 formats, and the integration of these configurations with Ansible. Additionally, the user implemented automation through the deployment of infrastructure components, as well as the development of tools, and configuration of deployment environments by adding support for additional features.
gcppythonclustersconfigureslurm
uzh/openstack-tutorial
May 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:85 commits, 57 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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