Summary
Giacomo Lanciano is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, cost-efficient cloud platforms and improving developer experience across research labs and startups. He combines academic rigor—a Ph.D. in Data Science & Cloud Engineering—with hands-on delivery, having led cloud architecture, zero-downtime deployments and major data-ingestion overhauls at AI-focused SaaS and research organizations. As the first cloud specialist at Aptus.AI he drove an AppSync migration that cut costs by 60% and scaled pipelines 3x while minimizing user impact. His background includes running OpenStack and Kubernetes infrastructure for a top research institution, contributing to open-source OpenStack projects, and applying LLMs to DevOps during a Nokia Bell Labs internship. Comfortable straddling product, security and ops, he also has practical experience implementing SSO, VAPT mitigations and ISO 27001 controls. Based in Italy, he pairs deep distributed-systems knowledge with a knack for turning research prototypes into production-grade services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Science & Cloud Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Science & Cloud Engineering at Scuola Normale Superiore
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Engineering in Computer Science - Excellence Track, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Engineering in Computer Science - Excellence Track at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English