Davide Casella Email & Phone Number

Milan, It

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Milan Area, Italy

Personally responsible for the bank's software lifecycle: source code versioning, continuous integration, artifact versioning and deployment, change tracing via issue management, and more.Introduction of Ansible as the deployment tool, handling most of the reimplementation of every outsourced deployment script as Ansible playbooks, and leading the critical choices involved in the whole process.Design and implementation of a Release Management framework written in Python and integrated with Atlassian Jira and Bamboo that automates the generation and sending of emails using Jinja2 templates, the configuration of multiple Bamboo deploy pipelines and their scheduling by generating a DAG of manually configured deploy steps (with dependencies and enabling rules) based on the status of Jira issues and converting it into a SP-graph.Minimization of manual tasks by automating most of the bureaucratic activities and repeating tasks like verifying the consistency of Production deployment staging directories.Extensive experience with Git, from the development of Git hooks embedded in Atlassian Bitbucket integrating static analysis, workflow control and issue tracking checks, to the analysis and resolution of developers' requests, to the automation of release tasks.Migration of entire software stacks requiring temporary parallel environments, build commands and deploy tasks.Frequent interaction with Change Management, Quality Assurance, executive officers and other teams for release planning, project management, and technical support.Development of complex Bash scripts for build e development purposes, e.g. adding background jobs that handle errors or timeouts.Development of interactive CLI tools to facilitate and speed up tasks that require human verification and/or approval tools.

Milan Area, Italy

Creation of Docker images with docker:dind for GitLab CI/CD pipelines which are being used for building Puppet modules and deploying Puppet configuration in different Puppetserver environments.Experience with the Rust programming language (Linux daemons) and RPM and DEB packaging with and without Cargo subcommands.Virtual machine provisioning with Terraform and familiarity with Linux LVM tools for filesystem partitioning.High availability with Keepalived and Rancher 1.x and 2.x load balancing.Familiarity with backup software like Bacula and SEP Sesam.

Part of the team responsible for following up on any clients' (small/medium businesses) request, be it support (L2-L4), change or a full-on project (new implementation or massive migration). Development of internal tools (Golang, Shell, Python), automation scripts (Shell, Powershell, Python) and dashboards (ReactJS, Golang).Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet, integrated with GitLab CI/CD pipelines to deliver updates and fixes.System administration (RHEL mostly), experience with widespread server software. Some examples are DNS servers with BIND9, Syslog servers with Rsyslog, webservers with NGINX and Apache, reverse proxies with NGINX.Familiarity with virtualization technologies, from VMware hypervisors and virtual machines to Docker containers and orchestration.System integration, working with hypervisors, SAN/NAS/vSANs, firewalls (virtual or physical), managed switches.

Università Degli Studi Di Milano-Bicocca

Implementation of the persistent phylogeny polynomial-time algorithm described in a paper published by Paola Bonizzoni, Gianluca Della Vedova, and Gabriella Trucco.Experience with the C++ programming language and Boost libraries, Boost Graph being the most used during the realization of the project.Familiarity with the Linux command line, GNU tools and Shell scripting in general, build tools, compilers and debuggers.Translation of graph theory and biology concepts like phylogenies and character evolution into algorithms and data structures.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

L-31 Distinctive courses: - Introduction to Bioinformatics - Embedded systems - Software security and testing Bachelor's thesis: Recurrent.

Elettronico-Informatico

Five-year Electronics course with specialization in Information Technology. Thesis: Design and development of a roleplay combat system.