Carlo Alberto C. Ferraris M.Eng

Mercari, Inc. — Tokyo, Japan

Architect of the Mercari backend systems and for the evolution of Mercari's engineering organization. Working with hundreds engineers across tens of teams.

• Main responsibilities: definition of organizational and infrastructural strategies; creation of architectural and implementation guidelines; domain design; service design; oversight over shared foundational services; design reviews, code reviews, and production readiness checks; infrastructure and operational cost efficiency improvements; troubleshooting.
• Designed or codesigned hundreds of services and data pipelines; saved millions of USD/year via targeted optimization efforts across the whole backend scope (applications, databases, pipelines, network, egress and CDN, on-prem and cloud infrastructure); helped scale the organization from tens to hundreds of engineers via training, guidelines, and mentoring.
• Primary technologies: Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Golang, Protobuf, gRPC, CircleCI.

Rakuten, Inc. — Tokyo, Japan

Technical lead of the Rakuten Cloud Foundry PaaS team (8 members in 3 regions).

• Main responsibilities: designed and led the implementation and delivery of the Linux container-based hybrid-cloud Cloud Foundry PaaS; defined the team values, processes and trained new team members; technical evangelism and user onboarding.
• Major accomplishments: rolled out the platform and assisted the migration of ~500 applications from a different legacy platform; delivered the platform for 2+ years with no SLA breaches; lead growth through user acquisition to ~1k applications; significantly improved operator experience and workload.
• Technologies used: Cloud Foundry, Bosh, Concourse, Docker, vSphere, Openstack, Microsoft Azure, Apache Kafka, NATS, Consul, ELK, Secor, Riemann, InfluxDB, Grafana, nginx, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux; internal components implemented in Golang and Ruby; supported application teams working in Java, PHP, Node.

Blue Reply — Turin, Italy

ICT architect at Fiat/Chrysler group

• EAI/SOA architect for the Fiat/Chrysler global convergence projects. Proposal, analysis and agile development of a family of automated monitoring/alerting tools for the Fiat ESB infrastructure.
• IT architecture and go-live support of a Siemens Simatic IT MES solution for the new Fiat plants of Kragujevac (Serbia), Grugliasco (Italy), Melfi (Italy) and Pernambuco (Brazil). Drafting and implementation of common policies and guidelines regarding ALM, CI and integration patterns for Fiat applications. War room activities: debugging support and performance troubleshooting.
• Technologies used: Websphere MQ, Spazio MFT/s, Java, Simatic IT MES, .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, vSphere

Strayorange — Turin, Italy

Freelance creative group I co-founded in 2007. In two years time we grown from working for small local businesses to international clients.

• Cross-media projects development (graphics, photography, corporate identity, Internet presence).
• Technologies used: PHP, HTML/CSS, Javascript, C++, Wordpress, Vuforia, PhoneGap, iOS, Android, Arduino, Matlab

Open-source projects

Open-source contributor and community experience.

• Contributed patches to open-source projects such as Mozilla Firefox, the LLVM compiler framework, Golang, Redis, Riemann, Bitcoin Core and various Wordpress plugins.
• Developed and maintained ImageTweak, a XUL add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Downloaded 2M+ times and localized in 20+ languages.

Minteos — Turin, Italy

Feasibility study and prototyping of a low-cost wireless mesh wildfire alarm system based on the recognition of the infrasonic sound spectrum of wildfires.