David Morpurgo

(YAHT) Yet Another Hippie Techie

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Experience

Lufthansa Systems GmbH

Berlin, Germany

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - TCoE

Oct ’23 - present

The Technology Centre of Excellence BU provides managed cloud services to the Lufthansa Group and 350 other airlines. As part of the Network Platform Team, I develop Terraform-based infrastructure for new Landing Zone Hubs in GCP and Azure. I also manage the team’s GitHub Org, our pipelines and assist customers needing tailor made solutions within our cloud platform.

Cisco Systems GmbH

Berlin, Germany

DevOps Engineer - Placetel

May ’20 – Sept ’23

Placetel is a small and mighty VoIP cloud provider. Here, I kickstarted the development of a new Ansible CI/CD pipeline to better manage our hybrid on-prem/cloud infrastructure; I also helped with maintaining the fabric, the management network, the systems (both metal and cloud), and was involved in planning upgrades and expansion of the infrastructure.

Cisco Systems GmbH

Berlin, Germany

Consulting Engineer - Public Sector

Sept ’19 – Apr ‘20

Part of a small team supporting Germany’s critical infrastructure. My role requires me to become familiar with a new Cisco technology in a matter of days, and produce a detailed recommendation.

SPAN Networks Ltd

Eynsham, Oxford, UK

Junior Engineer

Feb ’15 – Dec ’16

SPAN Network provides managed IT services. I was in charge of maintaining the High Density Virtualization Environment, and its relative Software Defined Network. I would also take support call and regularly be on our clients’ site to address issues that could not be dealt with remotely.

Plastic Metal SpA

Vicenza, Italy

Webmaster & SEO

Mar ’14 – Sept ’14

I had to rebuild their website using Joomla, it had to be SEO friendly and multilingual.