Andrea Politi
IT professional with 25 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and security across fintech, blockchain, e-gaming, and enterprise environments. Specialize in building cloud-native platforms on AWS and Kubernetes, optimizing costs while maintaining performance and reliability, and establishing security and compliance frameworks. Experienced leading DevOps and cross-functional teams, managing infrastructure budgets, and bridging technical decisions with business objectives. Build greenfield platforms for startups and optimize existing architectures for scale and cost-efficiency using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, and SRE practices.
Experience
VP of DevOps
SingularityDAO Labs
Remote
Led DevOps and infrastructure for a Web3/DeFi company, managing multi-account AWS environments, EKS clusters, RDS databases, CI/CD pipelines, and a full observability stack. Partnered with the CTO on security policies and drove 90% GitOps adoption across FE/BE, Data scientist, Quants and Traders teams within 3 months. Led DevOps initiatives:
- Access management: enforced MFA, least-privilege IAM/IRSA policies, and migrated EKS auth to the access entries API
- Network segmentation: designed VPC architecture with private subnets, VPN, and Istio Ambient mode for transparent mTLS
- Vulnerability management: integrated OWASP ZAP into CI pipelines, established container scanning and patch processes
- Observability: reduced MTTD by 40% through proactive monitoring, structured alerting, and SLO-driven dashboards
- Infrastructure as Code: owned the Terraform estate, writing reusable modules and establishing change management practices
- Cost optimisation: achieved 76% cloud spend reduction through rightsizing, scheduling, and FinOps practices (no SavingPlans, RI or spot instances) Migrated core infrastructure from ECS/Fargate to Kubernetes. Architected low-latency trading platforms with Kafka and Snowflake/RDS, deployed GPU node groups, and led multi-cloud migrations to reduce latency for global traders. Tuned CI pipelines, cutting deployment times by >35%.
Infrastructure Consultant
Globacap
Remote
Head of Infrastructure
Globacap
London & Remote
Designed and built greenfield IT platforms for an FCA-regulated fintech, ensuring high standards for security, reliability, and scalability. Managed DevOps and Security teams, and drove significant infrastructure improvements, including full encryption and zero downtime deployments. Managed vendor relationships and negotiated key contracts. Consistently delivered high-performing, resilient infrastructure, meeting 99.99% uptime SLAs for PaaS clients.
Consultant
GingerApp SL
Las Palmas
Built and maintained cloud infrastructures for new clients, provided L3 network support, and migrated servers to containerized solutions. Ensured robust performance and stability of cloud infrastructures.
Network and Infrastructure Manager
Kentech SL
Las Palmas
Guided teams on DevOps best practices, managed on-site and remote IT infrastructure, and enhanced security/reliability, including automating CI/CD and redesigning microservices for container compatibility. Achieved significant improvements in system uptime and operational efficiency.
Application Support Engineer
STA Travel
London
Provided L3 support for online business/e-commerce platforms, performed proactive monitoring, and managed ITIL-compliant changes. Contributed to cloud migration and automated production releases. Maintained high availability and performance for critical online platforms.
Senior System Administrator
IGT
Gibraltar
Administered global system operations across multiple datacenters, focusing on proactive monitoring, live deployments, and troubleshooting.
Senior System Administrator
SSE Labs Ltd / Onzo Ltd
London
Managed IT infrastructure across 80+ platforms, ensuring business continuity, network/security improvements, and efficient deployments.
Infrastructure Engineer
Thesi Tecnologie srl / Ministry of Defense
Italy
Responsible for production service maintenance, architectural design, network infrastructure build, Linux/Unix operations, and backup/DR policies.
Education
Universita` La Sapienza, Roma
BS Degree
Skills
CERTIFICATIONS
ISC2 CISSP
Amazon AWS Solutions Architect
Cisco CCNA
CCNP Switches
CORE COMPETENCIES
Leadership & Team Management
VP of DevOps, Head of Infrastructure, Network Manager, leading engineering teams (DevOps & Security), mentorship, accountability, stakeholder management, conflict resolution
Project & Program Management
Large-scale project ownership, on-time/on-budget delivery, ITIL Change & Release Management, SLA/SLO-driven service levels
Cybersecurity & Compliance
ISO 27001, incident response, threat assessment, vulnerability management, infra-container security, encryption, OS hardening, SOC2 Type I audit preparation
Strategic & Advisory
Technical strategy alignment, IT policy/procedure definition, due diligence, vendor management & negotiation
Architecture & Greenfield Design
Cloud-native greenfield platforms, microservices architecture, N-tier design, MLOps / AI Infrastructure Support, architecture redesign, SRE practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Cost Optimization
Achieved 76% cloud cost reduction, ecosystem efficiency, resource allocation, FinOps practices