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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.
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Experience

DevOps Engineer — CERN

Geneva, Switzerland | Jan 2023 – Present

  • Operated and evolved mission-critical OpenShift Kubernetes clusters hosting 10,000+ web applications with a user base of 300,000+, ensuring high availability and operational stability.
  • Acted as primary maintainer of the CERN Grafana Operator, running 200+ production Grafana instances used by service teams and content editors across the organization.
  • Led observability and reliability initiatives, improving visibility into cluster health, storage performance, and application behavior through standardized dashboards and alerting.
  • Designed and maintained internal automation tooling in Python and Bash, reducing manual operational tasks and accelerating incident response.
  • Participated in production incident response and troubleshooting, investigating root causes and implementing long-term corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
  • Supported and enabled internal service teams operating Drupal, WordPress, and custom PHP applications, integrating authentication, backups, and third-party services.
  • Supervised and mentored summer students, guiding projects from technical design to production deployment in Kubernetes environments.
  • Contributed to upstream open-source projects and cloud-native tooling, including Helm charts and Kubernetes ecosystem components.

DevOps Engineer Intern — CERN

Geneva, Switzerland | Apr 2022 – Dec 2022

  • Designed and implemented a database benchmarking tool to evaluate performance characteristics for CERN control-system workloads.
  • Contributed to the upstream TimescaleDB Helm chart, improving Kubernetes deployment and configuration practices.

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

Messina, Italy | Sep 2020 – Mar 2022

  • Migrated to Microsoft Azure most of the company services.
  • Deployment of Microsoft 365 (creation of tenant, migration of mail contents, implementation of Intune policies).
  • Designed and developed small management softwares with MERN stack.

Software Engineer Intern — SmartME.IO

Messina, Italy | Feb 2019 – Jul 2020

  • Contributed to PlatformIO, platform for embedded development written in python.
  • Developed a Visual Studio Code extension named Briki extension with relative vscode theme and published on vscode marketplace.
  • Designed and developed various IoT project using both raspberry pi and Arduino.