Davide Chirichella

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Education

  • Master's Degree in Computer Engineering; GPA: 29.5/30, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2025 – Present
  • Erasmus+ Exchange, Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug 2026 – Feb 2027
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering; Grade: 107/110, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2022 – 2025
    • Thesis: Performance Analysis and Monitoring in Cloud-Edge Environments for IoT
  • High School Diploma, Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei, Potenza, Italy, 2017 – 2022

Technical Skills

  • Infrastructure: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Istio, Crossplane
  • Observability & Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, MySQL, MongoDB, Git
  • Programming: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, CUDA, MPI, OpenMP

Work Experience

  • Junior DevOps Engineer, HoDiritto (Startup), Hybrid, Feb 2026 – Present
    • Built and managed a Docker Swarm microservices infrastructure for an early-stage startup's MVP, including CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, monitoring, and security.
    • Tech Stack: Docker, Terraform, MongoDB
  • Academic Tutor (System Administration), Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Feb 2026 – Present
    • Support Bachelor's students in Linux system administration, shell scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
    • Tech Stack: Linux, Bash, VirtualBox, Ansible, Vagrant
  • Student Intern, Mobile Middleware Research Group, Hybrid, Feb 2025 – Jul 2025
    • Designed an edge-cloud infrastructure for IoT orchestration and deployed its monitoring stack.
    • Developed a Kubernetes Operator to automate IoT device provisioning; configured Istio to integrate edge Docker microservices into the primary Kubernetes cluster.
    • Tech Stack: Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Crossplane, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
  • Software Engineer (Part-time), Project Quality Systems S.R.L., Remote, 2023 – 2026
    • Developed and scaled a corporate management platform (React.js, Node.js, MySQL); maintained and optimized legacy internal C# applications.

Selected Projects

  • KRATOS: Application-Aware GPU Scheduling for Kubernetes, 2026 – Present
    • Developing a Go-based framework for application-aware GPU scheduling and workload profiling on Kubernetes.

Languages

  • Italian: Native
  • English: B2 Upper Intermediate (Cambridge English First, FCE, June 2022)