Summary
Rolando Brondolin is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native data systems, currently focused on HeatWave MySQL Control Plane on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. His background blends rigorous academic research—a PhD and postdoctoral work at Politecnico di Milano—with hands-on engineering roles in high-performance backends and streaming systems. He has practical experience in performance optimization, scalable Java-based services, and distributed storage/search stacks from roles at Bottega52 and Sysdig. Based in Lugano, Switzerland, he brings both research-led problem solving and production-grade delivery to complex data infrastructure problems. An uncommon strength is his trajectory from teaching and academic research into enterprise cloud engineering, enabling him to translate advanced concepts into robust, operational systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma di Ragioneria, 96/100, Diploma di Ragioneria, 96/100 at ITCS Gadda Rosselli
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information technology at Politecnico di Milano
Italian, English