Stefano Stella
Head Of DevOps at Arringo
Malta
Summary
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Top SchoolStefano Stella is a Head of DevOps based in Malta with over a decade of hands-on experience building and optimizing cloud-native platforms and developer workflows. He scaled a core platform team from 2 to ~90 engineers while driving ISO 27001 and NIS2-aligned practices, cutting cloud spend by 50% and implementing resilient disaster recovery and observability strategies. A pragmatic engineer at heart, Stefano has repeatedly reduced infrastructure footprint and costs—halving Kubernetes cluster size, shrinking Docker images by 70%, and rebuilding AWS environments via IaC to cut costs by up to 70%. He contributes to open-source projects addressing real-world backend edge cases—improving Google Photos sync reliability and deepening Zabbix integration in Nagstamon—reflecting his attention to robustness across filesystems and APIs. Comfortable bridging technical and business stakeholders, he combines budgeting and policy stewardship with daily engineering decisions to deliver secure, highly available services. His background spans everything from low-level system administration and PCB work to modern CI/CD, making him unusually fluent across both legacy infrastructure and cloud-era automation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
ITIS A. Volta (Frosinone) Informatica
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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418reached
2answers
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Github Skills (19)
monitoring10
python10
zabbix10
nagios10
zabbix-api10
backup10
filesystem9
file-operations9
fileio9
logging8
qt8
debugging7
debug7
ansible6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HenriWahl/Nagstamon
Oct 2016 - Jun 2021
Nagios status monitor for your desktop.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 13 PRs, 84 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily focused on enhancing the Zabbix server integration within the Nagstamon project. Their contributions include adding features to retrieve item details, service names, and trigger information from the Zabbix API. They also optimized existing code, fixed bugs related to application retrieval and web scenario handling, and improved code maintainability by incorporating pep8 standards. Additionally, the user added features to filter trigger severity and added a display option.
checkmkmonitorpythonprometheuszabbix
gilesknap/gphotos-sync
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Google Photos and Albums backup with Google Photos Library API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 21 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily focused on improving the `gphotos-sync` repository's functionality and robustness. They implemented code changes to address issues related to date handling, file system checks (symlink support, case sensitivity), and added logging. Their contributions included modifying core utility functions, such as `minimum_date`, integrating new checks and configurations to improve performance and address edge cases within the album synchronization process. The user also added checks related to file names and paths, addressing potential problems arising from differing file systems.
pythongooglebackupgoogle-photospython3
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