Cristiano Colangelo
Cloud Engineer at turbalance
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolCristiano Colangelo is a Cloud Engineer with 10 years of experience building and optimizing cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on AI infrastructure and distributed workload orchestration at turbalance. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Cluster API, Terraform, ArgoCD, and multi-cloud deployments across Azure and GCP, and has driven cost and performance gains through GPU spot optimization and P2P image distribution. His master's work and early roles centered on carbon-aware scheduling and emissions-aware workload placement, reflecting a long-standing commitment to sustainable cloud computing. Cristiano pairs systems-level engineering with practical automation—authoring custom controllers in Go, CUE-driven manifest templating, and GitOps pipelines—to deliver resilient production platforms. Based in Lugano, Switzerland, he also mentors junior engineers and blends technical delivery with teaching experience, a hint of his interest in education and hands-on tinkering beyond core infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Berner Fachhochschule BFHMaster of Science Software and Data Engineering, Master of Science Software and Data Engineering at USI Università della Svizzera italianaFederal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training Information Technology, Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training Information Technology at Scuola Arti e Mestieri di Trevano
English, Italian, French, German
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
operator10
middleware10
continuous-delivery10
api10
sdk10
helm10
pipeline10
virtualization10
riotjs10
golang10
vagrant10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
cd10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
criscola/kubernetes-dbaas
Nov 2020 - May 2022
A unique Kubernetes Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Operator for declarative, self-service database provisioning in DBMS solutions.
Contributions:10 releases, 256 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
dbmsrdbmsdeclarative-configdatabase-as-a-serviceoperator
criscola/cloudflare-ddns
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
A Dynamic DNS for Cloudflare that allows your zones to be constantly up-to-date with your constantly changing public IP.
Contributions:2 releases, 18 commits, 13 pushes in 10 months
cloudflarecloudflare-apiddnsddns-clientddns-updater
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