Marco De Bortoli is a Technology Director with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing scalable infrastructure, developer platforms, and automation for major tech organisations. He has led engineering and principal roles at companies like Skyscanner, Just Eat and Codility, driving migrations to microservices, Kubernetes adoption, and measurable cost and deployment-time reductions. A strong advocate of BDD/TDD and “you build it you run it” culture, he blends pragmatic engineering standards with automation across CI/CD, IaC and observability. Marco is an active open-source contributor and the developer lead for Phansible, improving consistent PHP dev environments and even adding community-focused features. Known for turning legacy systems into scalable, testable platforms, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a knack for simplifying complex operational problems.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Zend Server, Zend Server at Atrak Learning Centre
Diploma di Maturità (Italian equivalent for 'Advanced Diploma - Level 3 / 3.5A') Electrical engineering specialised in automation and process control, Diploma di Maturità (Italian equivalent for 'Advanced Diploma - Level 3 / 3.5A') Electrical engineering specialised in automation and process control at I.T.I.S. Luigi Galvani Milan Italy
Zend Platform, Zend Platform at On site training given by Zend Technologies Ltd.
SUN Java SL-275, SUN Java SL-275 at SUN Microsystem Learning Centre
Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 and ASP 3.0, Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 and ASP 3.0 at Microsoft Learning Centre
Phansible - generate Vagrant + Ansible dev environments for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:115 commits, 76 PRs, 133 pushes in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on ensuring the correct default values within the Ansible roles, aligning them with the corresponding role configurations for PHP, RabbitMQ, and Redis, which likely improves the overall consistency of the generated environments. They also worked on integrating the front-end by adding a script to aid local development and fixing tests by adapting the code to work with updated dependencies. The user also implemented changes to support the project by adding a pride corner to show support for the LGBTQI+ community.
Contributions:3 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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Marco De Bortoli - Technology Director at Build Circle