Professional Experience
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
A Solutions Architect at AWS acts as a trusted technical advisor to customers, bridging the gap between complex business challenges and cloud-based solutions. The role involves working closely with customers to understand their goals, designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures on AWS, and guiding them through cloud adoption and migration strategies. Beyond technical design, Solutions Architects advocate for best practices across security, reliability, and performance, while staying at the forefront of emerging technologies to help customers innovate faster. It is a role that blends deep technical expertise with strong communication skills — translating business needs into architectural blueprints and empowering teams to build with confidence on the cloud.
Senior Solutions Architect · Vienna, Austria · July 2022 – Present
Designing and implementing cloud-based solutions for customers across different segments and industries. Focused on Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) and DevOps, leading numerous projects involving the deployment of machine learning models in production. Published multiple technical blog posts on the AWS Machine Learning Blog. Public speaker at AWS Summit Zurich 2024 and AWS Cloud Day Zurich 2023.
Developed public workshops used by AWS field teams worldwide:
- Amazon SageMaker Immersion Day — entry-level hands-on workshop covering end-to-end ML on SageMaker (GitHub repository)
- Amazon SageMaker MLOps: from idea to production in six steps — advanced workshop on SageMaker Pipelines, Feature Store, Model Registry, MLflow, and Model Monitor (GitHub repository)
Solutions Architect · Vienna, Austria · 2020 – July 2022
Onboarded as Solutions Architect, helping customers adopt AWS services and design cloud architectures.
Cybersecurity Industry
Software Engineer & Architect · Vienna, Austria · October 2017 – 2020
Designed and implemented a service-oriented architecture for a cloud-based IT security monitoring product, leading the transformation of a large monolith into a modular, scalable system. Worked closely with enterprise customers to define business processes and translate their requirements into technical solutions. Owned the design and documentation of REST APIs, including data formats and versioning strategy. Identified and resolved critical performance bottlenecks to meet strict SLAs, and mentored junior developers across the team.
Development Team Leader · Vienna, Austria · January 2017 – October 2017
Led a development team responsible for delivering working software to department standards. Managed hiring by interviewing candidate developers, and facilitated close collaboration between the team and stakeholders to ensure alignment on requirements and priorities.
Software Developer · Vienna, Austria · March 2016 – December 2016
Joined as a software developer, implementing new features according to stakeholder specifications in a test-driven development environment with peer review practices.
Trinity College Dublin
Postdoctoral Researcher · Dublin, Ireland · September 2015 – March 2016
Contributed to the WiSHFUL EU Horizon 2020 project, developing the frontend and backend to enable remote access to the Trinity College Dublin wireless testbed. Designed and implemented a web-based resource management and monitoring system with automated resource assignment.
Teaching Assistant · Dublin, Ireland · September 2012 – May 2015
Taught Java programming to Computer Science students and demonstrated Fundamentals of Electrotechnics — covering basic filtering, modulation, and hands-on use of oscilloscopes.
Research Assistant · Dublin, Ireland · March 2010 – December 2010
Worked on Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms, developing a split-architecture for carrier-sensing based MAC protocols. Collected and analysed experimental data to evaluate MAC protocol performance in multi-hop wireless networks.
O2 Ireland & Trinity College Dublin
Data Analyst (university-enterprise collaboration) · Dublin, Ireland · September 2013 – September 2014
Collected and maintained large datasets of anonymized call detail records for O2 mobile cellular networks across Ireland. Analysed spatio-temporal dynamics in cellular traffic demand, gaining insight into traffic patterns that informed network planning research.
Education
- Ph.D. in Electronic & Electrical Engineering · Trinity College Dublin · 2011 – 2016
- Thesis: “On the Effects of Resource Sharing on Mobile Network Deployment Decisions”
B.Sc and M.Sc in Telecommunications Engineering · University of Bologna · 2008 – 2011
Awards
- 🏆 Member of the winning team at the IEEE DySPAN 5G Spectrum Challenge 2015
Certifications
- AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty (2021)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (2021)
- AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate (2020)
- AWS Developer – Associate (2020)
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate (2020)