Alessandro Surace

• Led the technical evaluation of the next-generation DevSecOps platform • Scaled governed GitHub Copilot adoption to over 90% of developers • Led the multi-team, governed introduction of MCP for GitHub Copilot • Leading the AI harness workstream; advisor on AI gateway, logging and agent setup • Defining security best practices for the enterprise AI rollout • Architectural reviews under the data governance framework • CI/CD agent platform: DR-ready, caching, supply-chain hardening

• Built the next-generation Azure DevSecOps platform to production • Introduced GitHub Copilot company-wide with governance sign-off and SSO, supported by trainings and workshops • Led GenAI initiatives: chatbot and OpenAI PoCs, LLM-based task summarization, a custom GPT assistant • Defined security best practices for AI adoption • Made the CI/CD agent platform DR-ready • Led the selection of the enterprise API platform • Defined the open-source contribution framework • DevOps culture and GenAI ambassador

In addition to the Lead DevOps Engineer role: • Team enabler • Translated the product technology strategy into the team scope • Drove automation, quality and security

• Service migration to Kubernetes – Designed and implemented Terraform code to deploy the new K8s infrastructure on AWS – Ensured QA and functional testing during the migration – General overview and migration process tracking – Improved documentation and knowledge sharing • Brought a corporate mindset into the team – Team members coaching – Broke down silos between infra and service teams

Participated in developing and writing the Cloud+ certifications with CompTIA as a Subject Matter Expert in Cloud Technologies.

• Zero Infrastructure Initiative: – AWS migration: architecture, engineering, operations, performance and cost optimization • Microservices transformation: – Architecture and implementation with ECS and Kubernetes • High Automation Design and Implementation: – CI/CD pipelines with GoCD, Jenkins and GitLab – Serverless utilities with Lambda – Developed automation tooling in Python – IaC with Terraform • Consulting role toward R&D teams: – Cloud Architecture review and Onboarding • Main driver of the internal

Placed at HP by Ags. • System Engineering Task Force for Eni, Snam and Italgas – Built and maintained HA environments with Red Hat Cluster, SUSE Heartbeat and Corosync – Automation and Performance Analysis Systems: Linux, HP-UX, Sun and AIX; second- and third-level support

System integration projects in the following areas: Grid computing (Platform LSF, EnginFrame and Open MPI) Clustering (Veritas Cluster, LifeKeeper and SteelEye) Virtualization

Consultant in Technical Project Team

Senior System Engineer in: CartaSi - SI Holding Lombardia Informatica Advanced Global Solution

Sun, Linux and AIX System Administration. Project technical support. HA monitoring system project, development and implementation.

Teach Algebra and Geometry

Senior System Engineer in: EMC Site Manager EMC Implementation Specialist Senior Unix Engineer ­ Vodafone Sun Admins TEAM

Manage all South EMEA Sun Solaris System; provide Capacity Plan Information and participate in new project implementations.

SAN/TAN/NAS Implementation

SIA and Unix System Support Technical Leader. Consultant in: Omnitel-Vodafone Fastweb/Ebiscom

Thesis title: "Development of procedures for the calibration of enzymatic immunosensor for the clinical diagnosis" Developed in Byk Gulden Italy Polytechnic of Milan University

Mini Thesis title: "ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTER WITH μP Z80."