Carmine Vassallo
About Carmine Vassallo
Carmine Vassallo is a DevOps Specialist currently working at Sonar in Zurich, Switzerland. He has a strong academic background in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, holding both a Master's degree and a PhD, and has contributed significantly to the field through research and publications.
Work at SonarSource
Carmine Vassallo currently serves as a DevOps Specialist at Sonar, a role he has held since 2022 in Zurich, Switzerland. In this position, he operates the production instance of SonarQube on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cluster. He is responsible for improving pre-production environments for SonarQube by implementing infrastructure-as-code solutions, utilizing tools such as Terraform and Ansible. Additionally, he maintains public GitHub repositories for SonarQube deployment, employing Helm charts and Dockerfiles.
Education and Expertise
Carmine Vassallo holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of Zurich, where he studied from 2016 to 2020. Prior to that, he earned a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Università degli Studi del Sannio-Benevento, completing his studies from 2013 to 2016. He also obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the same institution, studying from 2009 to 2013. His educational background provides a strong foundation in software engineering and DevOps practices.
Background
Before joining Sonar, Carmine Vassallo worked at Avaloq as a Product Owner for eight months in Zurich, Switzerland, from 2021 to 2022. He also served as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Avaloq for one year during the same period. His earlier experience includes a four-year tenure as a researcher at the University of Zurich from 2016 to 2020, followed by six months as a Senior Researcher at the same institution until 2021. He also completed an internship at ING Nederland in 2015.
Achievements
Carmine Vassallo has co-authored 14 articles on continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) topics, which have been published in top-tier peer-reviewed conferences and journals in the software engineering field. He is also an active speaker at international academic and technical conferences, including the International Conference on Software Engineering and DevOps Institute Skilup days, contributing to discussions on advancements in software development practices.