Summary
Simone Lombardi is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Rome with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure, specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, networking and automation. He has progressed from Linux system administration through DevOps and SRE roles to senior platform engineering at Kraken, bringing deep operational expertise across CI/CD, container orchestration and observability stacks. His background spans major media and security firms where he implemented resilient platforms using tools like Ansible, CloudFormation, Docker/Fargate and Elasticsearch/Metricbeat. Known for pragmatic automation and troubleshooting, Simone often bridges infrastructure and development teams to reduce toil and improve deployment velocity. He pairs classical systems knowledge (Debian/Gentoo/CoreOS, DNS, MySQL/Percona) with modern platform practices, making him effective at migrating legacy workloads to cloud-native architectures.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Salerno
Liceo Classico Marco Galdi
Italian, English