Summary
Mauro Rappa is a seasoned AWS/Kubernetes DevOps practitioner and platform engineer with 25 years of deep Linux and production infrastructure experience, currently consulting on cloud and container practices. He has a strong track record in low-latency systems for finance and trading venues, having tuned everything from NICs and NUMA to JVMs and custom kernels, and was part of STAC working groups on cloud latency. Mauro blends hands-on hardware knowledge (Napatech, Solarflare, NVMe) with cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, CI/CD) and has led platform migrations and build pipelines across BBC, Yapily, BNP Paribas and others. He publishes technical analysis on performance and CPU topology, reflecting a focus on measurable gains rather than dogma. Based in Lombardy, Italy, he pairs entrepreneurial experience as a founder with consulting roles that solve high-stakes performance problems end-to-end.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Telecommunication, specialization in Networking, Bachelor of Telecommunication, specialization in Networking at Politecnico di Milano