About Francesco
Hi! I'm Francesco, a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, distributed, and event-driven architectures.
Throughout my career—which includes nearly a decade working directly at Red Hat (as a Senior Solution Architect and Technical Account Manager) and over 10 years at Ericsson—I have helped dozens of enterprise companies modernize their IT infrastructure and resolve complex issues on mission-critical systems.
In addition to my consulting work, I am a certified Red Hat instructor. This means my approach goes beyond simply "fixing the problem"; my goal is to transfer knowledge and industry best practices to your team, making them fully autonomous.
How I can support your project (especially for short to medium-term engagements):
Assessment & Health Checks: Architectural audits on your Kubernetes/OpenShift environments and legacy Java applications to identify bottlenecks and provide actionable optimization strategies.
Advanced Troubleshooting: Targeted, high-level technical interventions on Linux infrastructures, containers, and Java applications (Quarkus, Spring Boot) to unblock your teams.
Design & Integration: Designing robust microservices architectures and event-driven systems (using Apache Kafka and AMQ Streams).
Shadowing & Mentoring: Hands-on, side-by-side support for your development or system engineering teams to accelerate the adoption of cloud-native technologies and DevOps methodologies.
Whether you are dealing with a stalled project, an underperforming infrastructure, or simply need expert guidance to design a new architecture from scratch, let's connect. I'd be happy to have a chat to see if my expertise is the right fit for your current needs.
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Rome (up to 50km)
Experience
- FreelanceEnterprise Architect & Cloud-Native ConsultantJanuary 2024 - Today (2 years and 7 months)Delivering consulting and architectural services focused on cloud-native and container-based solutions.• • Designed and implemented microservices architectures on OpenShift/Kubernetes.• • Supported clients in modernization and automation of Enterprise applications ( GitOps / Ansible / Terraform)• • Delivered performance tuning, troubleshooting and architecture reviews.• • Implemented event-driven systems using Kafka and AMQ Streams and cloud-native Java frameworks (Quarkus/SpringBoot).• • Enabled engineering teams through targeted workshops, training and hands-on sessions on OpenShift, Kubernetes and cloud-native development practices.
- Red HatSenior Technical Account ManagerJanuary 2020 - January 2023 (3 years)Trusted advisor for strategic enterprise customers, providing high-level architectural and operational support.• • Managed critical production incidents and escalations.• • Provided proactive architecture guidance for OpenShift and middleware platforms.• • Defined technical roadmaps and adoption strategies.• • Delivered hands-on workshops and solution enablement sessions.• • Coordinated with Red Hat engineering and support teams.• • Key Technologies: OpenShift, Ansible, JBoss EAP, AMQ, Kafka, Camel, 3scale, Service Mesh, Docker.
- Red HatSenior Solution ArchitectJanuary 2014 - January 2020 (6 years)Led the design and delivery of enterprise-scale cloud-native solutions.• • Designed scalable architectures based on OpenShift and container platforms.• • Supported customers in digital transformation initiatives.• • Delivered end-to-end solutions across middleware, integration and automation.• • Ensured security, scalability and high availability.• • Acted as technical lead in complex pre-sales and delivery engagements.
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Education
- Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Advanced Cluster Security Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Advanced Cluster Management Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Automation and Integration Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator Red Hat Certified Enterprise Application Developer Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management Red Hat Certified Specialist in Cloud-native Integration RH Certified Specialist in Containers RH Certified Engineer (RHEL/Ansible) RH Certified Specialist in Messaging Administration RH Certified Specialist in EAP Administration Red Hat Certified OpenShift Application DeveloperRed Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Advanced Cluster Security Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Advanced Cluster Management Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Automation and Integration Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator Red Hat Certified Enterprise Application Developer Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management Red Hat Certified Specialist in Cloud-native Integration RH Certified Specialist in Containers RH Certified Engineer (RHEL/Ansible) RH Certified Specialist in Messaging Administration RH Certified Specialist in EAP Administration Red Hat Certified OpenShift Application Developer