Matteo Avellina
Senior Software Engineer at Sysdig
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolMatteo Avellina is a Senior Software Engineer based in Milan with nine years of experience building backend systems and cloud-native software. He progressed from software developer to team lead and senior backend roles at iGenius, Glickon, and now Sysdig, blending hands-on coding with mentoring and system design. His academic background in Computer Engineering and Sound & Music Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, 110L/110) signals strong signal-processing and algorithmic foundations that inform pragmatic engineering decisions. Matteo maintains a public developer presence (mech-pig on GitHub and mechpig.me), reflecting a steady personal commitment to programming and sharing work. Colleagues value him for translating complex product requirements into reliable, scalable services while keeping an eye on developer experience. He brings a mix of technical depth, leadership gained in small teams, and an engineer’s curiosity about elegant solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale, Ingegneria informatica, 102/110, Laurea triennale, Ingegneria informatica, 102/110 at Politecnico di Milano
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Github Skills (22)
helm10
zammad10
sysdig10
charts9
kubernetes8
expressions7
vagrantfile6
google-cloud-platform6
jenkins5
skopeo5
buildah5
nixos-configuration5
vagrant4
storage4
podman4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mech-pig/tic-tac-toe
Feb 2022 - May 2023
Tic-tac-toe as a service
Contributions:17 reviews, 101 PRs, 97 pushes in 1 year 3 months
toetacas-a-servicenodejstic
mech-pig/nix-config
May 2020 - Mar 2023
Personal collection of Nix/NixOS expressions
Contributions:106 commits, 118 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 years 9 months
nixnixosnixos-configurationexpressions
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