Andrea Politi

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Administered global system operations across multiple datacenters, focusing on proactive monitoring, live deployments, and troubleshooting.

Managed IT infrastructure across 80+ platforms, ensuring business continuity, network/security improvements, and efficient deployments.

Responsible for production service maintenance, architectural design, network infrastructure build, Linux/Unix operations, and backup/DR policies.