Mathia Pagani

Background

About Mathia Pagani

Trilingual DevOps Engineer | Cloud-Native & GitOps Specialist What people often tell me? “You’re crazy.” And they’re not wrong. Before I was automating high-performance Cloud-Native infrastructures, I was leading complex digital projects for theaters, museums, and publishing houses. That was in Italy, before 2018. That first life taught me rhythm, attention to detail, and a deeply human approach to technology. Today, I work as a DevOps consultant. I contribute to a large-scale transformation program, helping migrate over applications to a Kubernetes-based architecture, driven by GitLab CI/CD workflows and GitOps practices. Previously, I was a research engineer at CNRS, where I designed and operated infrastructure solutions for the scientific community—blending automation, performance, and cybersecurity with a strong sense of purpose and clarity of vision. I started as a research engineer on a national-scale project linking several HPC centers, and soon took the lead in scaling GitOps practices across the board. Promoted to research engineer in just over a year. Key Achievements Infrastructure Engineering High-availability Kubernetes clusters on bare metal (Ansible + k8s) or VMs (Terraform + k3s) Scalable microservices architecture with VIP, Keepalived & HAProxy GitOps & Automation Git-driven workflows using ArgoCD, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD Operational control over cloud-native apps and microservices Cybersecurity & IAM Centralized access via Keycloak (SSO, OIDC, SAML), fine-grained IAM policies Secrets and access control with Vault, RBAC, LDAP Scalability & Observability Monitoring & alerting with Prometheus and Grafana Containerization of complex services with Docker, reducing ops costs and deployment times 🧠 Core Skills Security & IAM: Keycloak, Vault, OIDC, SAML, LDAP CI/CD & GitOps: GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Terraform Infrastructure as Code: Ansible, Kubernetes, k3s, Helm Languages: Bash, YAML/JSON, PHP, Python, C++ Networking & Infra: HAProxy, Nginx, DNS, Let’s Encrypt Observability: Prometheus, Grafana Education 42 Lyon – Information Systems Architecture (EQF Level 7 – Master’s equivalent) Favorite quote: “The mind is like a parachute. It only works if it’s open.”