Riccardo Stori
Principal Cloud Architect at Vodafone
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRiccardo Stori is a Principal Cloud Architect with nine years of experience leading telco-grade cloud transformations and Kubernetes-based platforms across 23 markets. He architected a €750M multi-year cloud programme at Vodafone that cut projected OPEX by over €100M and accelerated 5G-SA launches in Europe and Africa. A recognized industry leader, he co-authored GSMA NG.139, leads the Linux Foundation Anuket RA2 workstream, spoke at KubeCon 2023 and serves on the KubeCon 2025 programme committee. He champions GitOps, Bare-Metal CaaS and CNF lifecycle automation—reducing platform upgrade windows from days to roughly 2.5 hours and improving deployment automation by over 70%. Known for translating C-suite strategy into 1,000+ page enterprise blueprints and steering vendor roadmaps, he resolves complex integration challenges across operators and vendors. Based in Reading, he blends deep telecoms and cloud-native expertise with pragmatic standards work that shapes global 5G cloud deployments.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Università degli Studi di PadovaMaster's Thesis: Smart Charging for Plug-in Electric Vehicles, Master's Thesis: Smart Charging for Plug-in Electric Vehicles at Imperial College London
English, German, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (43)
kubernetes10
sdn-network10
sdn10
photography10
infrastructure10
openstack10
nfv10
edge-computing10
chronological9
ip-address9
django9
machine-learning9
python-scripts9
ai9
golang9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
anuket-project/RA2
Jan 2024 - Jan 2026
About: Reference Architecture for Kubernetes based cloud infrastructure readthedocs submodule
Contributions:54 reviews, 60 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years
cloud-infrastructurekubernetesread-the-docs
rgstori/immich-album-suggester
Aug 2025 - Aug 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes in 4 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.