Summary
Francesco Negri is a Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for high-traffic web platforms, currently driving reliability and platform work in Wikimedia Foundation’s Cloud Services team. He has led DevOps and platform initiatives at companies like Credimi, Rail Europe and the BBC, specializing in AWS, Kubernetes/ECS, Terraform and PostgreSQL while championing Infrastructure as Code and strong documentation. Francesco combines hands-on incident and performance debugging—tuning PostgreSQL and optimizing Kubernetes clusters—with systems thinking informed by Team Topologies and runbook-driven on-call practices. He’s known for introducing pragmatic automation (PR environments, CI migrations) and for reorganizing multi-account AWS estates to improve cost and operability. Based in Milan, he prefers getting things right over just getting them done and brings a long track record of translating engineering standards into repeatable team processes.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico M. G. Agnesi
Bachelor of Science (BS), Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Telecommunications Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
Italian, English, Portuguese, French, Spanish