Marco Micera
Saved $24k/year in cloud costs 💸
Senior DevOps Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Hi!
I'm a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong SRE practices, specializing in infrastructure and automation.
I help organizations build reliable, scalable systems and reduce cloud costs.
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Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Apr 2024 - Jun 2025
Ada is an AI-driven digital health company offering symptom assessment and care navigation tools to millions, including major US healthcare firms.
• Built a one-click Azure infrastructure bootstrap for a major enterprise client, enhancing DRP readiness to meet 99.9% uptime requirements
• Managed FinOps operations using DoIT and native GCP, Azure, and AWS cost tools to monitor spend, analyze trends, and detect anomalies
• Led Helm chart standardization and migration efforts via Jenkins migration pipelines, tracking progress with Honeycomb dashboards
• Cut MongoDB production costs by 56% ($22.8k/year) by optimizing database storage and reclaiming unused space with zero downtime
• Saved 7 weeks/year by automating company-wide Helm changes via centralized base charts, cutting deployment time from months to <1 hour
• Ensured GDPR compliance with Terraform-managed GCS archives using TTL rules and audit-proof access controls for deleted medical data
DevOps Engineer
May 2022 - Mar 2024
• Developed internal tools to enhance disaster recovery, including exporting PostgreSQL backups to external GCS buckets
• Handled on-call incidents for cloud and Kubernetes with PagerDuty, kubectl, Honeycomb tracing, and E2E testing
• Enabled regulatory compliance in Canada by mentoring the local infra team on secure CI/CD pipelines and access governance
• Improved infrastructure robustness with Terraform, including prevention of accidental destruction and smooth replacement of resources
• Cut Terraform provisioning time by 89% (18 → 2 mins) for 134 customer-specific IaC folders through selective provisioning, saving $1.8k/year
• Reduced MongoDB IAM-related support tickets by 60% by integrating IAM with Terraform, enabling self-service access via approval workflows
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Infrastructure Eng.
Endocode (now Hoverture Europe)
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
Endocode was a cloud consultancy and an official Google Cloud Platform (GCP) partner, delivering solutions primarily on GCP and other platforms.
• Consolidated multi-provider (GCP, AWS, & Azure) Terraform code for a global health company
• Developed an ad-hoc license detector in Java for the EU-funded project Fasten, integrated into their pipeline (Kafka on Kubernetes on-premise)
• Cut Kubernetes costs 35% by profiling deployments with Goldilocks, right-sizing resources, and reducing nodes by 40%
• Cut Docker build times 79% (from 104 to 22 seconds) by optimizing Maven multi-stage builds, caching artifacts, and enabling BuildKit
• Enabled a team of 3 developers to work concurrently and accelerate delivery by parallelizing the pipeline with selective task execution
Research Assistant
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
• Built a flow-based cluster scheduler aware of network resources; helped extend its Scala-based simulator and refine the solver's cost model
• The simulator featured in the 2021 ASPLOS paper "Switches for HIRE: Resource Scheduling for Data Center In-Network Computing"
Personal projects Projects
Education
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering
Polytechnic University of Turin
Mar 2017 - Mar 2020
Thesis at the Technical University of Darmstadt, titled "Data center resource management for in-network processing"