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I am passionate about learning and solving hard networking & information technology problems. I am a senior consultant engineer at Cisco, designing, implementing, and maintaining customer networks based on their business requirements. I work mainly on data center, cloud, and network automation solutions.
In 2019, I got CCIE certification (#62461). I worked for the Italian Ministry of Education as an information technology teacher and Cisco Instructor. In 2015, I received a Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino, Milan, Bari in information technology engineering. The research topic has been congestion control algorithms for low-delay communication. I've published over 10 research papers in esteemed international conferences and journals.
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Professional Experience
2017–Current — Technical Leader @ Cisco. Delivery design for customer network infrastructure, focus on Data Center, Cloud, and Network Automation projects.
2023 — Proctor @ Cisco Live Amsterdam for 2 Labs: LABDCN-2020 (ACI Extension to AWS), LABDCN-2064 (ACI Multisite Implementation and Migration)
2020 — Speaker @ Cisco Live Barcelona: "Let's Play with Istio: Service meshes for high-scale container environments" (Lab PDF, GitHub repo)
2019 — CCIE certification (#62461) — Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Enterprise Infrastructure
Complete list of certifications on Credly
Education
2015 — Ph.D. from Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato. Research on reducing internet end-to-end latency through congestion control algorithms and protocols for low-delay communication.
2011 — Master's degree in Telecommunication Engineering at Politecnico di Bari
Awards & Recognition
2014 — Google Faculty Research Award for "Congestion control for WebRTC" — Real-time congestion control algorithm for video conferencing (PI: S. Mascolo)
2014 — IETF Standardization effort: Contribution to RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques (rmcat) WG with draft "A Google Congestion Control Algorithm for Real-Time Communication"
Complete list of publications on Google Scholar
Areas of Expertise
- Platforms: Cisco Nexus 9000, Catalyst 9000, ASR 9000, IOS-XE, IOS-XR
- Data Center Networking: Cisco ACI, VXLAN EVPN
- WAN & Edge: MPLS backbone (LDP), L2VPN EVPN, routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, IS-IS)
- Transport Layer & Congestion Control: TCP, QUIC, WebRTC GCC, AQM
- Network Automation: Python, Ansible, REST APIs
- Observability: Splunk
- Research & Performance: Empirical testbeds, traffic measurement, queueing theory, control systems
Get in Touch
Feel free to reach out via LinkedIn, explore my work on GitHub, or review my publications on Google Scholar.