Marco Balestri
Cloud Strategy & Cybersecurity Governance Lead
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Balestri is a cloud-focused software engineer and security leader with 8 years of experience building scalable, production-grade platforms across startups and enterprises. Currently leading cloud strategy and cybersecurity governance for a global mobility platform, he blends hands-on engineering with risk-aware release practices and compliance expertise (NIST, GDPR, NIS2, CRA, IEC62443). He has driven CI/CD adoption, cross-cloud deployments, predictive monitoring and secure operational tooling, consistently turning architecture decisions into measurable business outcomes. His background includes backend leadership on a cloud-native cybersecurity product and contributions to the Knowage open-source analytics server, where he implemented R and Python integrations and front-end enhancements. A pragmatic problem-solver and communicator, Marco often authors the documentation and technical artifacts that win contracts and resolve customer compliance challenges. Based in Turin, he pairs data-science training with practical devops and security chops to deliver reliable, cost-effective cloud solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Liceo ScientificoMS, Software Engineering & Data Science, MS, Software Engineering & Data Science at Politecnico di Torino
English, Italian
Github Skills (10)
javas10
back-end-development10
angularjs10
java10
r10
api-design9
restful-api9
webservice9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KnowageLabs/Knowage-Server
Oct 2019 - May 2022
Knowage is the professional open source suite for modern business analytics over traditional sources and big data systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1095 commits, 731 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Marco contributed to the development of the Knowage server by implementing and integrating code related to R integration within the system, involving the use of the R engine, handling data frames, and supporting driver propagation. The user introduced the use of a code editor for python scripts and expanded support for catalog functions in the chart widget. Their work involved modifications to Java code for back-end services and also included changes to front-end Angular code for UI enhancements and data processing.
professionalanalysesdata-miningbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
marcob1995/Knowage-Documentation
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Documentation for Knowage Server
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
knowageserver
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