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Alberto Pimpo
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Alberto Pimpo
DevOps Engineer with a passion for automation, cloud technologies, and continuous improvement. When I’m not optimizing systems, you can find me reading books or indulging in my love for capybaras.

Experience

DevOps Engineer (Computing Fellow) — CERN

Geneva, Switzerland | Jan 2023 – Present

  • Administered and maintained large-scale OKD (OpenShift) clusters (PaaS, webEOS, app-catalogue, Drupal, Wordpress) serving thousands of users.
  • Resolved 200+ support tickets with 100% “Very satisfied” rating.
  • Upgraded and deployed core services: HAProxy, Fluentd/Fluent Bit, Prometheus, OpenSearch, Restic, Velero, Apache HTTPD.
  • Maintained Jenkins CI/CD on Kubernetes, ensuring reliability and availability.
  • Supervised 2 summer students, guiding them from design to deployment.
  • Improved internal tooling in Python and Bash.
  • Contributed to open source projects (Fluent Bit, Jenkins, ContainerSSH).
  • Delivered technical lectures at CERN School of Computing and Openlab.

DevOps Engineer (Technical Student) — CERN

Geneva, Switzerland | Apr 2022 – Dec 2022

  • Designed and implemented a database benchmarking tool for CERN’s SCADA use case.
  • Contributed to upstream TimescaleDB Helm chart for Kubernetes.
  • Analyzed benchmark results to provide database performance insights.

System Administrator — Azienda Trasporti Messina S.p.A.

Messina, Italy | Sep 2020 – Mar 2022

  • Migrated company services to Microsoft Azure.
  • Managed Windows machines and VMs via Intune.
  • Deployed Microsoft 365 (tenant creation, mail migration, Intune policies).
  • Supervised 3 interns while overseeing technical projects.

Software Engineer Intern — SmartME.IO

Messina, Italy | Feb 2019 – Jul 2020

  • Developed software for Linux SBCs in Python, C, and Bash.
  • Managed Linux systems with an OpenStack-based configuration management plugin.