Yes, It's Me: Valerio!

I'm a cloud architect, developer, gourmand,
bass player and even a woodworker if needed
...since 1985!

I'm a cloud architect, developer, gourmand,
bass player and even a woodworker if needed
...since 1985!

About Me

Hi! I'm Valerio Criscimanna, a cloud architect based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I have extensive fintech expertise and I am passionate about designing secure, innovative, user-centric tech solutions that drive efficiency, empower users, and advance financial inclusion.

In my spare time, instead of posting, liking, retweeting or going viral on TikTok, I keep busy travelling, reading geek stuff, hugging friends, making furniture, eating delicious food, walking the dog, reading books, sleeping, watching films, and speculating about the origin of the universe while drinking beer.

My Skills

Architecture Design

Serverless architectures for scalability and cost efficiency
Microservices architectures for modular, maintainable systems
Event-driven architectures for responsive, decoupled services

Data Engineering

Design and implementation of ETL pipelines
Data modeling for NoSQL and relational databases
Data lake design to unify structured and unstructured data

DevOps & Automation

Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD pipeline setup and management
Automation of operational tasks via scripting

Security & Compliance

Design for high-security environments
Applying fintech best practices for data protection and regulatory compliance (PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR)

Integration & APIs

Building and securing RESTful and WebSocket APIs
Designing event-driven integration patterns

Monitoring & Reliability

Setting up comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting

My Buzzwo Stack

Cloud Platforms   Amazon Web Services (AWS); Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Compute & Serverless   AWS Lambda; GCP Cloud Functions; AWS EC2; AWS Step Functions; EventBridge; AWS SQS; AWS SES
Storage & Data   AWS S3; AWS Athena; DynamoDB; Aurora; RDS; GCP Firestore; GCP Realtime Database
Data Processing   AWS Glue; Apache Spark / PySpark
Networking & Security   VPC design; IAM (Identity & Access Management); AWS KMS; Encryption at rest & in transit
IaC - CI/CD - Automation   AWS SAM; AWS CloudFormation; Jenkins; Git; Bash
API & Integration   API Gateway (RESTful + WebSocket APIs)
Monitoring & Observability   CloudWatch; Grafana
Languages / Scripting   Python; Bash

Contact Me

Social Media are not my cup of tea, so you're not going to find me on the usual platforms. Having said that, I have set aside my pretensions and reluctantly embraced the necessary evil of LinkedIn.
If instead you feel more old-fashioned, you can simply write me an email - or have ChatGPT write it for you, let's be honest.