Salvatore Cuzzilla
Principal System Engineer at Avaloq
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSalvatore Cuzzilla is a Principal System Engineer based in Zurich with over a decade of experience designing and operating complex telecom and FinTech infrastructure. He currently shapes network and infrastructure strategy for a financial-grade SaaS/PaaS platform at Avaloq, focusing on secure connectivity, SD-WAN, Network-as-a-Service and Infrastructure as Code. His background at Swisscom spans network telemetry, SD-WAN integration and cloud automation where he built asynchronous gRPC collectors, Kafka/Druid pipelines and contributed C/C++ enhancements to the widely used pmacct monitoring project. Salvatore blends low-level protocol and systems programming (C/C++, Python) with pragmatic automation (Terraform, IaC) to deliver observable, testable networks. He is an active open-source contributor who leverages community tools daily to produce production-ready telemetry and forwarding features not obvious from job titles alone. Known for turning operational complexity into automated, auditable systems, he thrives at the intersection of networking, security and platform engineering.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering of Computing Systems, Engineering of Computing Systems at Politecnico di MilanomaturitĂ scientifica, maturitĂ scientifica at Liceo Scientifico
English, Italian, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (8)
c1710
json10
avro10
data-serialization10
c1110
serialization10
bgp7
mpls6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pmacct/pmacct
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
pmacct is a small set of multi-purpose passive network monitoring tools [NetFlow IPFIX sFlow libpcap BGP BMP RPKI IGP Streaming Telemetry].
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 23 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Salvatore primarily contributed to adding and refactoring code related to the Avro data serialization format within the pmacct project. Their work involved creating and integrating new functions for handling Avro schemas, processing labels, and integrating these features. Furthermore, the user focused on adding forwarding status functionality and integrating with JSON formats.
bmpservicenowyangflink-sqldata-stream
scuzzilla/CCIE-RS
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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