Giuliano Drago

As Infrastructure Engineer my responsibility is to ensure robust delivery of technical services to the clients. Working in a DevOps team, the daily business is about maintaining and monitoring all network, security and server systems to meet the company's current and future requirements, identify performance issues pro-actively and fix them as soon as possible, automating tasks and configurations using Chef and different scripting languages.

Working as pre-sales support key account and channel manager for the Italian partner Omicron Consulting (www.omicronconsulting.it). Initial set up and updates of the demo infrastructure for the partner, preparation of technical documentation and marketing documentation, organization of marketing activities (press releases, events and webinars), support to the end customer, consultancy at customer site and configuration of the product on customer's premises (Windows and Linux environments).

As a Cloud Operations Engineer I work as a DevOp: taking care of automating repetitive tasks using Chef, monitoring with several tools (in particular app.Telemetry, a proprietary tool developed by Fabasoft), and continuously improving the performances of our Cloud locations (AT/DE/CH) is my daily job.

I take care of installation and management of SonicWALL devices, manage mail server with antivirus and antispam, Web server management, DNS management (BIND), MySQL and MS SQL DB management, Radius server, Xen virtualization, cloud computing. The operating systems used are Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu Server, Windows 2003 and 2008. I projected and created the monitoring infrastructure for the systems managed by the company using open software (Icinga and Nagios).

Working site: Telecom Italia - TIM SPA (Padova). The systems operate the mobile service of TIM. I Worked with proprietary application running on TRU64 and HPUX servers. Experiences with Oracle cluster databases.

Systems technician and assigned to backing quality at Clinilab s.r.l. (www.clinilab.it) of Conselve (PD). Administrator of 20 Windows Desktops, 5 Windows Servers and a couple of Linux boxes (antispam/antivirus frontend).

(Branch: Mass communication) at University of Padua. Thesis in Theories and Techniques of Radio/TV communication - “Tomorrow’s TV: how interactivity, digital and Internet will change television” (Prof. Bruno Voglino) – Mark 101/110.