Software Engineer & Advisor

I’m a freelance engineer focused on cloud infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Since 2007, I’ve worked across systems engineering, backend development and production operations, combining hands-on work with technical leadership.

Consulting & training

Talks & conversations

  • Modern Kubernetes on AWS with EKS. Moving from Nodes to Workloads AWS Las Palmas User Group · Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  • Continuous Delivery in practice: XP, Terraform & ECS Fargate AWS Las Palmas User Group · Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  • DevOps per tutti: Costruiamo una pipeline di delivery continua su Azure Agile Lean Tuscany · Pisa, Italy · Workshop

Talks · Videos

Selected experience

  • eBay

    E-commerce microservices, data pipelines and production infrastructure, from bare metal to cloud.

  • Adevinta

    subito.it · mobile.de · automobile.it

    OpenStack-to-AWS migration and AWS / EKS operations: on-call, observability and incident response.

  • TUI Musement

    Quality engineering and cloud migration, with continuous delivery and end-to-end testing.

  • Tannico

    Campari Group · 2024

    Legacy Magento migration to AWS ECS / Fargate, with Terraform and load testing.

  • BrandOn Group

    Technical due diligence and legacy operations, alongside Kotlin / Node.js services and AWS infrastructure.

  • Assist Digital

    inspearit

    Technical training, coaching and advisory across banking, insurance, telecoms, energy, automotive and the public sector.

  • Apogeo

    Gruppo Feltrinelli

    Technical writing and Agile training.

  • QRP International

    DevOps training and consulting; articles on reliability and software delivery.

Co-founder of Hexia Systems, a hosting and email business with 500+ customers. Responsible for its software, infrastructure and technical strategy through acquisition.

Writing & teaching

DevOps by Fabio Mora, Apogeo. Book cover.
I wrote DevOps (Apogeo, 2019), bringing together the technical and organisational sides of software delivery. I’ve also spent more than ten years teaching and mentoring engineers, through courses, workshops and work with teams.

Tools & practices

Cloud & reliability

Infrastructure as code, observability and diagnosing what happens in production.

  • Linux
  • AWS / Google Cloud
  • OpenStack
  • Kubernetes / EKS
  • ECS / Fargate
  • Terraform
  • Prometheus / Grafana
  • Datadog / OpenTelemetry
  • SLOs / Incident response

Architecture & delivery

Service boundaries, integration choices and repeatable delivery pipelines.

  • Distributed systems
  • Microservices / APIs
  • High availability
  • Capacity planning
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions / GitLab CI

Backend & quality

Application code, databases and tests that make changes easier to trust.

  • Java / Kotlin
  • Python
  • PHP / Node.js
  • Spring Boot
  • SQL / NoSQL
  • Redis / RabbitMQ
  • TDD / Refactoring
  • Integration / E2E tests

Methods & facilitation

Facilitation and engineering practices, adapted to the team and its constraints.

  • Agile / XP
  • DevOps / SRE
  • Lean / TPS
  • Scrum
  • Trunk-based development
  • LEGO Serious Play

AI & data

Pricing models, machine learning and data pipelines. Cluster deployments with Spark and Astronomer; language models with Amazon Bedrock.

  • Pricing models
  • Spark / Hadoop
  • Astronomer clusters
  • R
  • TensorFlow / PyTorch
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • LLMs / Local vision models
  • EXIF / Geodata

Audio & embedded

Low-level work connecting software, signals and physical devices.

  • C / Firmware
  • DSP
  • Real-time audio
  • GNU Radio / SDR

Credentials & training

Curiosity & community

I got started with GaLUG, later co-founded Italian Agile Movement and organised XPUG Milano. I also collaborated with the Liberi Oltre association. Open source and local communities have been a way to learn, share and meet people throughout my career.

I’ve trained professionally in modern guitar, singing and cooking; my other interests include electronics and biomedical technology.

Aerial view of Galliate, its fields and roads, with an aircraft wing above the town.