Antonino Abbate

ninoabbate@gmail.com +39 335 74 95 476

IT Operations - Monitoring - Security - Networking - DevOps - Blockchain

Qualifications summary

• All rounder when it comes to IT Operations & Security, able to fill in different positions.
• 100% Infrastructures Uptime makes me a happy engineer.
• I love using and contributing to Open Source software.

Technical Skills

• Networking and Security devices: Cisco Juniper Fortinet Palo Alto A10 Arista Networks HP Darktrace
• Operating Systems: Linux Windows Server MacOS
• Monitoring & Graphing: Nagios Cacti Graphite Icinga2 check_mk ELK Prometheus Grafana
• Vitualization, Containers: vmware ESXi Docker Kubernetes
• Public Clouds: AWS Azure GCP Digital Ocean OVH Linode
• Security: Ossec Snort metasploit nessus Alienvault Various EDR/MDR/NDR/XDR Kali Linux
• Web servers: Apache Nginx IIS
• Databases: MySQL mariadb SQLite PostgreSQL MSSQL
• Programming and Scripting Languages: PHP python BASH Powershell

Education

Degree	Major	Institution	Graduation Year
Bachelor of Information Technology	Computer Science	Università di Messina (IT)	2005

Professional Experience

• CTO, THE I, Thiene, Vicenza, Italy (Jul. 2017 – Current) The company is specilized in the following areas and activities:
  • Infrastructure engineering
  • Systems integration
  • Monitoring
  • Data centers migration
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Deployments (infrastructures, services, applications, platforms)
  • Information Security
  • Project & Service Management
  • Cost Analysis, Cost Saving and Re-engineering
  • Projects done for our clients: Architectural Security Assessments, VAPT, Implementation of Monitoring infrastructures, Implementation of CI/CD and DAST pipelines, Developing cloud infrastructures with Terraform, Moving infrastructures to public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), Build testing infrastructures
• DevOps Engineer - Independent Contractor, AudienceView, 100% Remote (Jul. 2019 – Dec. 2022)
  • Migrated infrastructures from multiple AWS accounts to Azure
  • Migrated servers to AWS ECS stacks
  • Reimplemented infrastructures with Terraform
  • Daily duties which include: Mantain secure the infrastructures, Monitor the availability of all services, Develop and implement new solutions, Mitigate and resolve issues on all infrastructures.
  • Worked using Agile methodologies following the SCRUM approach.
  • Maintan the infrastructures PCI-DSS complaint.
  • Technologies got to work on (they are a lot more): AWS Azure Linux Rapid7 InsightDR AlienVault Datadog Docker JIRA with Agile git
  • External services: Pagerduty Sendgrid GitHub Bitbucket Jira DockerHub
• Operations Engineer - Independent Contractor, Vendini, 100% Remote (Mar. 2015 – Jun. 2019)
  • Engineered and implemented the Transaction/Encryption Monitoring Infrastructure.
  • Engineered and implemented the Application used to take the backup of all network devices configuration, it also notifies when a configuration change happens.
  • Engineered and implemented the Logs monitoring infrastructure.
  • Engineered and implemented the IDS infrastructure.
  • Daily duties which include: Mantain secure the infrastructures, Monitor the availability of all services, Develop and implement new solutions, Mitigate and resolve issues on all infrastructures.
  • Worked using Agile methodologies following the SCRUM approach.
  • Maintan the infrastructures PCI-DSS complaint.
  • Technologies got to work on (they are a lot more): AWS Linux Palo Alto A10 ELK Ossec Snort Docker Windows Server IIS JIRA with Agile git
  • External services: Queue-it Twilio Pagerduty Pingdom Sendgrid GitHub Bitbucket Jira DockerHub
• Security Engineer, Telecom Italia, Rome, Italy (Dec. 2013 – Feb. 2015)
  • Resposible for IT Security and Compliance of TI Sparkle NET Operations production infrastructures
  • Security activities like: Risk Assesments, Internal Audits, Gap Analysis, Remediation Plans, Patch Management, Identity and access management, Hardening
  • I helped the customer during the external security audit and I have been successful to make pass them the audit
  • Technologies got to work on: Linux HP-UX Solaris Windows Server Cisco Secure ACS RSA ACE server HP OVO Remedy
• Network Engineer, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Rome, Italy (Oct. 2013 – Nov. 2013)
  • Configured all routers for Telecom Italia Sparkle's customer DSV Saima Avandero
  • Technologies got to work on: Cisco Nagios Cacti Cisco Works
• Network & Security Engineer, Mibact, Rome, Italy (Jul. 2013 – Aug. 2013)
  • Networking, monitoring the security of Mibact infrastructures
  • Technologies got to work on: Fortinet Cisco McAfee ePO FortiAnalyzer Intermapper
• Network Security & Systems Engineer, Bank of Italy, Rome, Italy (Jan. 2007 – Jun. 2013)
  • Monitoring the security of Bank of Italy internet facing infrastructures
  • Developing security of Email and Proxy services
  • Technologies got to work on: Juniper Cisco Windows Server Trend Micro IMSS Trend Micro IWSS HP OVO OpenSTM
• Network Engineer, Wind, Rome, Italy (Jul. 2006 – Dec. 2006)
  • Configuring networking devices and managing DCN networks
  • Technologies got to work on: Juniper Cisco
• Network Engineer, Italy Prime Minister Council, Rome, Italy (Jan. 2006 – Jun. 2006)
  • Configuring networking devices and managing networks
  • Technologies got to work on: Cisco HP Avaya Cabletron

Other Personal Projects

• Open Source contributions
  • Opsweekly https://github.com/etsy/opsweekly
  • Prometheus SNMP-exporter https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter
  • Prometheus SNMP exporter configuration generator in a docker container https://github.com/ninoabbate/docker-secg
  • A dockerized version of Opsweekly by Etsy https://github.com/ninoabbate/docker-opsweekly
  • A dockerized version of Morgue by Etsy https://github.com/ninoabbate/docker-morgue