Armando Ferrara
Associate Director - Cloud DevOps Engineer
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolArmando Ferrara is an Associate Director and Cloud DevOps engineer with 9 years of experience designing resilient, data-intensive systems for global payments and IoT platforms. Based in Zurich, he specializes in cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes at scale, NoSQL optimization, and automation to make reliability non-negotiable. At UBS he led cluster design, performance tuning (including Cosmos DB sharding), service mesh adoption with Istio/mTLS, and cross-regional deployment strategies that improved scalability and availability. Previously he boosted IoT product reliability and customer satisfaction through event-driven architectures, CQRS, and observability tooling at dormakaba. Known as a free-thinking engineer, he blends hands-on troubleshooting of critical production incidents with mentorship and inner-source contributions recognized by leadership. He pairs academic grounding in computer science with a pragmatic focus on security, cost efficiency, and measurable operational impact.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di SalernoDiploma of advance studies, Data science, Diploma of advance studies, Data science at ETH ZurichHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Liceo Classico Giordano Bruno, Maddaloni
Italian, English
Github Skills (57)
spring-cloud-config10
spring-security-oauth29
spring-boot-actuator9
maven9
spring-cloud-gateway8
activemq8
spring-boot8
blockchain8
ethereum8
cqrs7
saga-pattern7
distributed-tracing7
event-driven-architecture7
kafka7
zipkin7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Armando1514/Tickets-Platform-With-Microservices-Architecture
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:92 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 18 days
Armando1514/Discovering-Small-Target-Sets-in-Social-Networks
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 8 months
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