About

I like understanding why systems break, and building them so they don’t. That curiosity led me from a PhD in Distributed Systems at the University of Catania to maintaining production Kubernetes clusters

These days I split my time between backend engineering, infrastructure automation, and a growing interest on LLMs and their applications. I’m currently interested in fine-tuning LLMs for domain-specific tasks and figuring out how to deploy them without melting the hardware budget.

When I’m not debugging YAML or staring at Prometheus dashboards, I’m probably over-engineering my homelab or convincing myself that this side project will actually get finished.

Skills

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Experience

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Software Engineer @ Vyxel, Italy
Jan 2026 – Now

• Provisioning and managing bare-metal infrastructure to deliver reliable and scalable cloud services.

PhD Research Consultant @ Aucta Cognitio SRL, Italy
Oct 2022 – Nov 2025

• Designed cloud-native architectures leveraging Kubernetes for orchestration of distributed workloads.
• Developed MLOps pipelines using Kubeflow and Apache Airflow for automated ML workflows.

Software & AI Engineer @ Sangiorgi SRL, Italy
Mar 2025 – Nov 2025

• Led COAT project (EU-funded, NGI Sargasso / Horizon Europe): on-premise LLM inference with Ollama/vLLM, fine-tuned Qwen3 with Unsloth.

Visiting PhD Researcher @ Telecom SudParis, Palaiseau, France
Jan 2025 – Jul 2025

• Built a Kubernetes Event Generator to simulate workloads, node failures, and scheduler configurations.
• Research on distributed systems scheduling and resource management in cloud-native environments.

Teaching Assistant @ University of Catania, Italy
Sep 2022 – Feb 2025

• Distributed Systems & Big Data (LM-32): tutoring on distributed computing and cluster technologies.
• Programming Techniques for Distributed Systems (LM-27): lab sessions on distributed programming.
• Object Oriented Programming (L-8): lab sessions on Java programming, student exercises and projects.

Software Engineer @ Sangiorgi SRL, Catania, Italy
May 2021 – May 2022

• Developed microservice backends (Python, Golang) for IoT and mobile apps (WeeNet, Ruppu, YouSpeed).
• Managed Kubernetes deployments, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure with Prometheus monitoring.

Education

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PhD in Computer Engineering @ University of Catania, Italy
2022 – 2025
Thesis: Decision Support System in Quality of Service Application Performance Management.

Professional License @ University of Catania, Italy
2022
Ingegnere dell’Informazione Sez. A (95/100)

Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering @ University of Catania, Italy, Grade 110/110 cum laude
2018 – 2022
Thesis: Resource Allocation with Multiple Offloading Options in Cloud-Edge Scenarios.

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering @ University of Catania, Italy
2014 – 2018
Thesis: Sentiment Analysis on Web Comments Using Azure Machine Learning.

Publications

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• Gollo, M., Morana, G., Genovese, A., Di Stefano, A. (2025). SLADE: An SLA-Driven AI-Based Decision Engine for QoS Management in the Edge Cloud Continuum. Computer Communications. (under review)
• Gollo, M., Sangiorgi, A., Morana, G., Di Martino, M., Esposito, F. (2025). Quantifying Privacy Risk in Online Agreements with COAT: An LLM Approach. WETICE 2025, IEEE.
• Di Stefano, A., Genovese, A., Gollo, M., Morana, G. (2025). Latency-Constrained Overlay Networks for QoS Assurance in the Edge-Cloud Continuum. WETICE 2025, IEEE.
• Davoli, G., Grasso, C., et al., Gollo, M., Morana, G., et al. (2025). Demonstration of Dynamic Service-Chain Deployment in a Multi-Layer FANET Edge-Computing Architecture. NoF 2025.
• Di Stefano, A., Gollo, M., Morana, G. (2024). An SLA-driven, AI-based QoS Manager for Edge Cloud Continuum. WETICE 2024, IEEE.
• Di Stefano, A., Gollo, M., Morana, G. (2024). Improving QoS Management Using Associative Memory and Event-Driven Transaction History. Information, 15(9), 569.

Conferences & Workshops

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• Grifin Workshop on AI, Networks & Cybersecurity — Sorbonne University & LINCS, Paris, France (Apr 22–23, 2025)
• AI, Science & Society Conference (AI Summit) — Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France (Feb 6–7, 2025)
• WETICE: International Conference on Enabling Technologies — IEEE, Catania, Italy (Jul 23–25, 2025)
• WETICE: International Conference on Enabling Technologies — IEEE, Reggio Emilia, Italy (Jun 26–28, 2024)
• RESTART Plenary Dissemination Workshop — Catania, Italy (2025)
• VIII Mediterranean School of Complex Networks (PhD School) — Catania, Italy (Jun 25–30, 2023)