Summary
Jacopo Nardiello is a seasoned infrastructure engineer and founder with 12 years of experience turning low-level cloud-native technology into production products and teams. He bootstrapped SIGHUP in 2016, building one of Europe’s most popular independent Kubernetes distributions and scaling it to enterprise customers before exiting in 2024. Now ING’s Global Infrastructure Transformation Lead, he shapes cloud- and AI-enabled architectures while drawing on a decade of hands-on automation, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and container tooling. A long-time CNCF Ambassador and Linux Foundation Europe advisory board member, he combines community stewardship with commercial leadership. Colleagues describe him as someone who “tames and teaches machines,” reflecting a pragmatic approach to making complex distributed systems usable and repeatable.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Bachelor degree Automation Engineering, Bachelor degree Automation Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
Extra-EU Exchange student Automation Engineering, Extra-EU Exchange student Automation Engineering at Tomsk Polytechnic University
Italian, English, Russian