Paolo Bussacchini

Platform / Infrastructure Software Engineer · Brescia, Italy

[email protected] | LinkedIn | GitHub

Platform engineer with 4+ years building and operating cloud-native systems. Production experience with self-managed k3s and AWS EKS, Helm packaging, GitOps (Argo CD), and GitHub Actions. Contributed to a multi-tenant enterprise PaaS with strong on-prem deployment needs, and to financial-grade services at a capital markets firm. Focused on reliable delivery, observability, and developer experience. Deepening Go and infrastructure-as-code.

Experience

Software Developer (Platform) · SmeUP

Mar 2024 - Present · Erbusco, Italy

  • Operate production Kubernetes for a multi-tenant PaaS: self-managed k3s (on-prem / customer-shaped) and AWS EKS - packaging, rollouts, and day-2 operations across environments.
  • Co-authored the platform’s official Helm chart to standardize enterprise installs (defaults, config boundaries, lifecycle) and reduce deployment drift.
  • Ship via Argo CD GitOps and GitHub Actions, keeping cloud and on-prem environments consistent and reviewable from Git.
  • Designed platform auth with OIDC / Keycloak (Google Workspace); balanced on-prem customer reality vs. speculative multi-tenant complexity.
  • Integrated SFTPGo into Helm charts (StatefulSet, storage, networking); debug production connectivity across app, container, Kubernetes, and firewall layers.
  • Built platform services (auth, routing, batch)

Java · TypeScript · Docker · Kubernetes · k3s · EKS · Helm · Argo CD · GitHub Actions · AWS ECR · Keycloak/OIDC · OpenTelemetry · Jaeger · PostgreSQL · MongoDB

Java Developer · Perigea @ GateLab / Banca IMI

Apr 2022 - Mar 2024 · Milan, Italy

  • Spring Boot microservices for trading/investment-desk apps at Banca IMI (Euronext), under strict latency, reliability, and change-control expectations.
  • Real-time bond/derivatives metrics (Java + PL/SQL) and Java-C++ bridges via Protocol Buffers; strong test coverage and reviews; Jenkins CI.

Java · Spring Boot · Protocol Buffers · Jenkins · Oracle DB · React

Projects

sre-lab - Terraform · Kubernetes · Go · Argo CD (in progress)

Personal platform lab: IaC foundations, Go service with health/metrics, GitOps sync onto lightweight Kubernetes - practicing the laptop->cluster delivery loop.

First write-up: Starting an SRE lab · All posts

Blog

Notes from labs and learning.

Browse all posts ->

Technical skills

Area Skills
Platform / K8s Kubernetes · k3s · EKS · Helm · Argo CD / GitOps · Docker · CRDs · Ingress · RBAC
CI/CD & Cloud GitHub Actions · Jenkins · AWS (EKS, ECR) · Terraform (learning via labs)
Observability OpenTelemetry · Jaeger · metrics/logging mindset · Prometheus (learning)
Languages Java (proficient) · TypeScript · SQL · Go (actively learning) · Bash
Security / IdP OIDC · Keycloak · secrets/config hygiene · enterprise on-prem constraints
Backend / Data Spring Boot · REST · gRPC · Protobuf · RabbitMQ · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Oracle

Education

B.Sc. Statistics (110/110 cum laude) · University of Milano-Bicocca
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020 · Milan

Probability, Computer Science, Statistical Models, Databases.