$ whoami

name→Andrea D'Amato
role→Senior System Engineer
loc →Krakow, Poland
Andrea D'Amato

I'm Andrea D'Amato, a Senior System, Cloud & Linux Engineer based in Kraków, Poland — originally from Amalfi, one of those unfairly beautiful Italian coastal towns that makes everyone else's hometown feel a bit grey by comparison.

I've spent 15+ years designing, automating, securing and scaling enterprise Linux and hybrid cloud infrastructures, with a focus on RHEL/Rocky Linux, Ansible, OpenTofu/Terraform, and Azure. If it can be automated, it will be automated. If it can't, I'll find a way.

Outside of terminals and YAML files, I enjoy hiking, gaming (currently deep in the Gothic series rabbit hole), and sharing my home with my wife and Belle — my Samoyed, who is convinced she's the real senior engineer around here. This is my space to share and document what I learn, break, fix, and occasionally overthink.

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UnicDec 2024 — present
Senior System Engineer
Lifecycle & patch management of ~280 Rocky Linux 8/9 servers. Ansible automation, Azure estate (FrontDoor WAF, AKS, hybrid networking), Terraform on Proxmox & VMware, Barracuda Firewall ownership, Tenable Cloud vulnerability management.
Andrea D'Amato Solutions2024 — present
Founder
Creating my own B2B solutions company. Offering services for individual client projects. Focus on Linux, Cloud, IaC, Security and Automation.
Hanseatic BankJan 2024 — Oct 2024
Senior Linux Administrator
Owned 300+ server RHEL estate automated via Ansible AAP & Red Hat Satellite. Linux vulnerability & patch lifecycle, CheckMK monitoring, Qualys scanning, ELK log analytics, XDR endpoint detection.
EMBLJan 2015 — Jan 2024
Senior Linux & Infrastructure Administrator
Designed & managed ~200 RHEL/Debian servers in a research HPC environment. Built Ansible automation framework, Zabbix monitoring, OpenVAS & Fortigate IPS security hardening, VMware ESX cluster with iSCSI SAN.
Open ReplyJan 2014 — Jan 2015
Senior Linux & Cloud Administrator
Administered Linux environments (CentOS/Debian/Solaris) for enterprise clients. Managed AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC) with focus on cost optimisation & high availability.
Banca d'ItaliaJan 2013 — Jan 2014
Linux System Administrator
Managed KVM virtualisation & Red Hat Cluster Suite for mission-critical PKI infrastructure at Italy's central bank.
Bytewise S.r.l.Jan 2009 — Jan 2013
Junior System Administrator
Administered Linux mail, web and firewall systems for multiple enterprise clients. Managed VMware ESX 5.1 on IBM BladeCenter.
operating systems/
RHELRocky LinuxDebianUbuntuCentOSOracle Linux
cloud & iac/
AzureAWSTerraformAnsibleOpenTofu
containers & virt/
KubernetesDockerAKSVMware ESXProxmoxKVM
security/
QualysTenable CloudOpenVAS
monitoring/
CheckMKZabbixGrafanaELK Stack
ci/cd & scripting/
BashPythonGitGitLabForgejoAzure DevOps
AZ-104—Microsoft Azure Administrator
AZ-400—Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
SAA-C03—AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Terraform Associate—HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
CKA—Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CKS—Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
RHCE—Red Hat Certified Engineer
RHCA—Red Hat Certified Administrator
ENDP—Network Defense Professional
EJPD—Junior Penetration Tester
ECDFP—Digital Forensics Professional

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What's Hiding in the Nest? My Home Lab2026-08-03

A quick tour of the hardware behind my home lab—from TrueNAS storage to a tiny three-node Proxmox cluster.

Certified DevOps Engineer or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pipeline2026-06-29

Let's make it!

Getting This Site Off the Ground2026-06-28

How I built and deployed a personal site with OpenTofu and Ansible — without touching a server manually.