Curriculum Vitae · MMXXVI
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Curriculum Vitae · MMXXVI

Armando Ferrara

Enterprise Infrastructure & AI Architect

Zürich, CH ferrara.link linkedin / ferraraarmando github / Armando1514

I design resilient distributed systems for enterprise-scale environments — cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, distributed architecture, and AI engineering for financial institutions and regulated enterprises across Switzerland and EMEA. Nine years across UBS, Dormakaba, Huawei, and enterprise consulting; ETH Zürich Diploma of Advanced Studies in Data Science.

Professional History

Selected Experience

  1. UBS

    — Present · Zürich, CH
    Banking & Financial
    Associate Director · Cloud-Native Infrastructure

    Architecting and scaling a cloud-native platform for instant-payment processing across Switzerland and EMEA. Operating at the reliability bar of regulated banking infrastructure.

    • Kubernetes cluster engineering and resource optimisation across multi-region production estates.
    • Istio service mesh with mutual TLS — zero-trust traffic for all inter-service communication.
    • Cosmos DB optimisation, CI/CD pipeline automation, and infrastructure-as-code disciplines.
    • CTO-recognised contributions to the bank's inner-source infrastructure library.

  2. Dormakaba

    — · Zürich, CH
    Industrial & IoT
    Cloud Software Engineer

    Distributed IoT access-control infrastructure on AWS using event-driven architecture, Apache Kafka, CQRS, and Event Sourcing.

    • Delivered 10% performance improvement and 30% increase in customer satisfaction.
    • Doubled IoT device sales through platform reliability and feature velocity.
    • Public keynote at Dormakaba Switzerland conference on cloud-native IoT architecture.

  3. Huawei

    — · Zürich, CH
    Telecommunications
    Software Engineer

    Internal management platform connecting Huawei Europe and Huawei China. Microservices on Huawei Cloud with Node.js, Next.js, gRPC, and GraphQL.

    • Designed for enterprise-grade high availability across regions.
    • Cross-continental data flow at scale, with regulatory and operational constraints.

  4. Alma Consulting

    — · Naples, IT
    Enterprise Consulting
    IT Consultant

    Enterprise software consulting across multiple clients — solution delivery with Java and Spring, requirements engineering, and full software lifecycle management.

Academic Credentials

Education

  1. ETH Zürich

    Diploma of Advanced Studies — Data Science
    —

  2. Università degli Studi di Salerno

    Master of Science — Computer Science · Italian Innovative Thesis Award 2021
    —

  3. Università degli Studi di Salerno

    Bachelor of Science — Computer Science
    —
Credentials Ledger · 58 total

Selected Certifications

  1. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) CNCF · 2024
  2. Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD) CNCF · 2024
  3. AI Engineer — LLM Engineering, RAG & Agentic AI Udemy · 2026
  4. Agentic AI & Mathematics for Machine Learning DeepLearning.AI · 2025–26
  5. Complete ledger — all 58 certifications linkedin / certifications →