About Me
Hey there! I’m Simone.
I am Italian, but I am currently living in Amsterdam, NL.
I have always been curious about how things work and interact with each other.
In 2010, I’ve launched the now defunct freeBNC.net. At its prime it was one of the largest free IRC bouncer services. That was great fun! :) I found CVE-2013-2130 in the meantime.
Since 2015 I’ve been working with all sort of infrastructure: virtualization, cloud, data analytics pipelines, CI/CD, and declarative infrastructure to name a few.
I open-source whatever I can, mostly on my GitHub but I have some things on my GitLab account as well
Kubernetes is the orchestration platform I use on a daily basis. While its extensibility is remarkable, I think we’re not done yet. Maybe Serverless will take over!
What I do
- I use Kubernetes a lot
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (certificate)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (certificate)
- I have led the organisation of ServerlessDays Amsterdam 2019, the first ServerlessDays conference in The Netherlands.
- coala maintainer
- Thoughtful about IT Security
- Tinkering with new tech is my go-to hobby
- A casual flat white is my coffee of choice
Talk to me
- Mail me at w@simone.sh
- I use Signal, ask me for my phone number
- I use Matrix, ask me for my Matrix ID
Buzzwords
Over the years, I’ve played with a lot of different technologies.
Some things have sticked with me, though:
- Python 3, Postgres, Redis, for building things
- AWS, GCP, Scaleway, for running things
- Kubernetes, Istio, Knative, for scheduling things
- GitLab, Sentry, Datadog, to develop and have an overview of things
- Terraform, [Ansible], GCP DeploymentManager, AWS CF, to automate things
- KVM, ESXi, HyperV, to virtualize things
My public keys
SSH
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GPG
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