About me
Hello, I’m Vincenzo Scalzi and this is my personal corner of the Web!
I love the Web and the gems that it contains, the inspiration and the technology. I am very passionate about technology and like to share this through my notes, at meetups and with my co-workers!
Technology has reached a point where it could serve us better by giving us space to grow. I fully embrace this by using my time online to learn new facts, notably from Hacker News, contribute new knowledge or find new ways to reduce my impact. High performance does correlate with minimalism, sustainability and smaller costs of operation and maintenance!
At work, I help deliver best-in-class solutions either myself or with the help of fantastic people that I only encourage to do better with better tooling. I like spreading shiny new ideas and tools around and seeing them accelerating us and saving precious time or mental load.
I highly value the people around me and their time and strive to make myself replaceable or useless. My work is truly complete when my customers are delighted by the work and when they achieve full autonomy and technical know-how.
Finally, I also like to enjoy my time: playing the ukulele, organizing my travels, eating out, walking around aimlessly, playing timeless video-games, reading, learning. You know, the usual stuff.
Get in touch!
Find my through LinkedIn and send me a message! I will not put my email address on this website for obvious scraping reasons! If you’ve got business, wish to learn stuff with me or just for a chat, go ahead. I’m open to discussion, even about those things people are usually shy about.
About my work
And if you’re here to learn about my journey, here you go:
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Cloud Architect at SOPHiA Genetics
I turbocharged the team that accelerates tech teams; DevOps. By introducing missing practices and a different way of working. Commit conventions, release automation, foundational Cloud layers automation, simplifying infrastructure and CI/CD, etc. It’s not just tech and that’s what is refreshing about it! -
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer at Gekko Part of Accenture
Serverless architectures on AWS, DevOps philosophy and Web engineering. My development background was what sold it for my customers, for whom I delivered optimizations in their critical energy systems, linear TV advertising platform, insurance and real estate IT services and so on. This company taught me the value of the Cloud and how to create sustainable and performant services. And documentation, and how to effectively introduce new ideas to customers and conduct them to fruition and beyond. -
Fullstack Developer at Moonda
A now defunct web agency based using an ancient PHP Content Management System called eZPublish to develop dealership website generators for John Deere, Yale and other customers. I migrated that product from OVHCloud to AWS, maintained it, added Cloudflare and developed new components in PHP and Angular. The rest was about introducing better practices around CI/CD, using GitLab to its fullest, tooling and infrastructure.
Have a nice visit and a nice day!