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I am an independent DevOps and cloud-native consultant focused on helping small and mid-sized teams design and implement cost-efficient, observable, and easy-to-operate infrastructure. I specialize in infrastructure as code, automation, and guiding projects from assessment through implementation and handover. I tailor each solution to business goals, team size, and technical context, and I have worked with both early-stage and scaling startups. My work typically involves defining practical improvement roadmaps, mentoring development teams, designing and building monitoring/observability platforms, driving infrastructure automation, resolving instability in Kubernetes environments, and planning cloud migrations. I’m passionate about helping teams become autonomous by developing cloud-native mindsets and capabilities.…I am an independent DevOps and cloud-native consultant focused on helping small and mid-sized teams design and implement cost-efficient, observable, and easy-to-operate infrastructure. I specialize in infrastructure as code, automation, and guiding projects from assessment through implementation and handover. I tailor each solution to business goals, team size, and technical context, and I have worked with both early-stage and scaling startups. My work typically involves defining practical improvement roadmaps, mentoring development teams, designing and building monitoring/observability platforms, driving infrastructure automation, resolving instability in Kubernetes environments, and planning cloud migrations. I’m passionate about helping teams become autonomous by developing cloud-native mindsets and capabilities.

Martino Fornasa

DevOps Developer, Cloud Developer, Project Manager

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I am an independent DevOps and cloud-native consultant focused on helping small and mid-sized teams design and implement cost-efficient, observable, and easy-to-operate infrastructure. I specialize in infrastructure as code, automation, and guiding projects from assessment through implementation and handover. I tailor each solution to business goals, team size, and technical context, and I have worked with both early-stage and scaling startups. My work typically involves defining practical improvement roadmaps, mentoring development teams, designing and building monitoring/observability platforms, driving infrastructure automation, resolving instability in Kubernetes environments, and planning cloud migrations. I’m passionate about helping teams become autonomous by developing cloud-native mindsets and capabilities.…I am an independent DevOps and cloud-native consultant focused on helping small and mid-sized teams design and implement cost-efficient, observable, and easy-to-operate infrastructure. I specialize in infrastructure as code, automation, and guiding projects from assessment through implementation and handover. I tailor each solution to business goals, team size, and technical context, and I have worked with both early-stage and scaling startups. My work typically involves defining practical improvement roadmaps, mentoring development teams, designing and building monitoring/observability platforms, driving infrastructure automation, resolving instability in Kubernetes environments, and planning cloud migrations. I’m passionate about helping teams become autonomous by developing cloud-native mindsets and capabilities.

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I am an independent DevOps and cloud-native consultant focused on helping small and mid-sized teams design and implement cost-efficient, observable, and easy-to-operate infrastructure. I specialize in infrastructure as code, automation, and guiding projects from assessment through implementation and handover. I tailor each solution to business goals, team size, and technical context, and I have worked with both early-stage and scaling startups. My work typically involves defining practical improvement roadmaps, mentoring development teams, designing and building monitoring/observability platforms, driving infrastructure automation, resolving instability in Kubernetes environments, and planning cloud migrations. I’m passionate about helping teams become autonomous by developing cloud-native mindsets and capabilities.

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Work Experience

Independent Consultant - Strategic Advisor at IMPACT

January 1, 2023 - Present

Independent consultant and strategic advisor helping clients accelerate digital transformation by moving from traditional applications and infrastructure to cloud-native architectures across private, bare metal, hybrid and public cloud settings. I mentor teams, provide hands-on technical leadership, and strive to build autonomous, high-performing engineering cultures. I am frequently responsible for solving issues beyond architects' and team leads' scope to ensure timely delivery of critical projects.

Creator at Eventitech

January 1, 2023 - Present

I create and maintain Eventitech, a curated list of tech conferences, community events and CFPs in Italy, helping practitioners find opportunities to learn and connect.

Organizer at UseCaseConf

January 1, 2024 - Present

I organize UseCaseConf, a conference that shares real-world experiences of how complex organizations transform and manage their IT, focusing on principles, journeys, and practices rather than specific technologies.

Senior Engineering Manager - DevOps and Cloud-Native Lead (hybrid) at Kiratech

January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2022

Built and led the consultancy team, coordinating hiring and mentoring senior engineers. Defined the company’s technical proposition in DevOps, data center automation, cloud adoption and migration, cloud-native technologies, infrastructure management, and security. Ensured timely delivery of critical projects and solved challenging issues beyond architects’ scope. Instrumental in establishing a Managed Service division providing data center and infrastructure management, 24/7 monitoring and support. Created training programs for the technical team and contributed to broader staff development.

Head of DevOps (remote) at Clevertech

January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2018

Led the DevOps team with responsibility for strategy and implementation of cloud-based software/hardware and networking infrastructure. Built a build and deployment pipeline that dramatically reduced deployment failures through automated code quality feedback, testing, smoke tests, and configuration management. Designed a container-based local development environment, reducing developer setup time. Implemented scalable IT infrastructure and a solid data security program. Led technical training on CI/CD practices.

Adjunct Professor at University of Genoa

January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015

Taught the Computer Networks course in the Computer Engineering Undergraduate Program.

Technical Director at M3S

January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2014

Led a team in redesign, implementation and day-to-day operations of a computing infrastructure providing IT services for a large port. The infrastructure comprised bare-metal servers based on VMware and Amazon EC2 instances.

ICT Researcher at Computer Platform Research Center – Padua University

January 1, 2005 - January 1, 2014

Designed and coded an open-source Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D-2004) implementation, contributing to the Open vSwitch project. Developed a passive TCP traffic-based Internet access service monitoring method and filed a patent related to IP-network performance characterization.

Senior Engineering Manager - DevOps and Cloud-Native Lead at Kiratech

January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2022

Led the consultancy team; engaged with enterprise customers to promote DevOps and cloud-native adoption; defined technical propositions; established Managed Service division; built training programs; ensured timely project delivery.

Head of DevOps at Clevertech

January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2018

Led the DevOps team, defined strategy for infrastructure and deployment, built automated pipelines, designed developer environments, and implemented a security program.