Riccardo Carlesso
Developer Advocate
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRiccardo Carlesso is a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud with 15 years of experience helping customers adopt SRE, reliability, DevOps, and application modernization practices. Based in Zurich, he pairs hands-on engineering perspective from his time as a Strategic Customer Engineer with advocacy work that spans community organizing—co-founding Rubycon.it and leading GDG Cloud Zurich events. A Ruby on Rails and Google Cloud enthusiast, Riccardo translates complex operational challenges into practical cloud-native solutions and developer-friendly guidance. He brings a pragmatic blend of consulting and developer relations, grounded in a master’s from the University of Bologna and long experience working directly with enterprise customers. Outside work he’s notably active in the software community and balances technical life with eclectic personal interests—from triathlons to music and red wine—making him an approachable bridge between engineers and cloud strategy.
15 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Master's degree at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
English, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, German
Github Skills (200)
exporter10
serverless10
k8s10
client-library10
dotenv10
html10
bazel10
llm10
terraform10
ruby10
istio10
activerecord10
kustomize10
pulumi10
gemini10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
palladius/gce-recipes
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:116 pushes in 1 year 5 months
palladius/pasta
Sep 2010 - Feb 2023
This amazing project (in its simplicity) aims to teach all non-italians that Spaghetti Bolognese doesnt exist!!!
Contributions:148 commits, 5 PRs, 141 pushes in 12 years 6 months
spaghettiteachaimsamazing
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