Summary
Giuseppe Paternò is an independent Principal Architect with over 25 years’ experience designing resilient, secure infrastructure for telecoms, finance and critical industries, specialising in Ceph, ZFS and large-scale open-source platforms. He operates fractionally or project-based, translating complex requirements into high-performance bare-metal, private-cloud and hybrid architectures across Kubernetes, OpenStack and cloud providers. Known for aligning engineering with operational reality, he has delivered converged 5G/cloud platforms, industrial cloud-security frameworks and HA infrastructures serving hundreds of thousands of users. Clients have included BT, Red Hat, Canonical, eBay and Telecom Italia, where he combined deep technical delivery with strategic advisory work. A long-time open-source advocate and community organiser, he’s engaged with OpenInfra, OpenUK and the FreeBSD Foundation, and brings practical, production-hardened perspectives rather than theoretical designs. Outside tech he’s a qualified pilot and polyglot, a detail that reflects his global, disciplined and adaptable approach to complex systems.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Foreign Languages and Literatures General, Foreign Languages and Literatures General at Istituto Leopardi
Computer Science, Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin