Danilo Poccia
AI Solutions Director at Nearform
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDanilo Poccia is Chief Evangelist (EMEA) at AWS with 13 years of experience helping developers adopt cloud-native and serverless architectures across compute, storage, analytics, IoT and AI/ML. Based in London, he blends strategic advocacy with hands-on engineering—demonstrated by his open-source LambdAuth sample that showcases serverless authentication using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and Cognito. He champions the mantra "Write less code, be Serverless," focusing on practical patterns that reduce operational overhead while enabling scalable, cost-efficient solutions. Comfortable in DevOps and back-end roles, he writes deployment scripts, configures cloud services, and iterates on both backend and frontend components to deliver end-to-end demos. Known for clear opinions and developer-first communication, he translates complex cloud technologies into actionable guidance for teams across EMEA.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italian, English
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
aws-lambda10
amazon-dynamodb10
dynamodb10
aws10
serverless10
amazon-cognito9
bash9
cicd8
nodejs8
api-design7
apim7
aws-s37
amazon-s37
api7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
danilop/LambdAuth
May 2015 - Dec 2016
A sample authentication service implemented with a server-less architecture, using AWS Lambda to host and execute the code and Amazon DynamoDB as persistent storage. This provides a cost-efficient solution that is scalable and highly available and can be used with Amazon Cognito for Developer Authenticated Identities.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 42 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Danilo primarily focused on setting up and configuring the infrastructure for the serverless authentication service. They implemented deployment scripts, configured AWS services like DynamoDB, Cognito, and Lambda functions. The user also made backend code changes, including creating and updating Lambda functions with Javascript and modifying HTML/Javascript for the front-end user interface.
amazon-cognitoamazon-dynamodbauthenticationaws-lambdalambda
danilop/serverless-chat
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
A serverless web chat built using AWS Lambda, AWS IoT (for WebSockets) and Amazon DynamoDB
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
amazon-dynamodbaws-iotaws-lambdalambdaserverless
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