DevOps / Cloud Engineer · Torino, Italy

Mostafa Shirvani

First DevOps hire at an Italian startup. Platform migrations, security incident response, vendor strategy. Career switcher from Mining Engineering — composure under pressure included.

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~/mostafa@torino

$ whoami
devops-engineer
$ cat stack.txt
python · go · aws · akamai · docker
terraform · postgres · k8s (learning)
$ uptime
11 months at StarView, 0 prod fires
$ open --to-recruiters

About me

I'm a DevOps engineer in Torino, Italy, working at a B2B damage assessment startup (DisasterLens) where I joined as the first dedicated DevOps hire. I own everything from infrastructure migrations to security incident response to vendor partnerships — small startup, big surface area.

I came into tech from Mining Engineering. I finished my first degree at the University of Tehran in early 2022 and moved to Italy to start Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. Years of demanding fieldwork taught me to keep my head when systems break and customers are looking — something that paid off twice when our platform was attacked (once successfully, once not, thanks to architecture that learned its lesson).

Earlier this year I co-taught a 3-month application development bootcamp. In my spare time I'm learning Rust, running NixOS on my own machine, and tinkering with infrastructure for the fun of it.

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Work experience

DevOps / Cloud Engineer
StarView (Early DevOps Hire) — B2B Damage Assessment Platform · Torino, Italy
Jun. 2025 - Present

Migrated DisasterLens (V1 → V2) from a legacy EC2 monolith to a cloud-agnostic Akamai (Linode) static-CDN deployment with Terraform + Ansible — 9× faster builds (8m → 55s), ~25% faster DB queries, and near-zero hosting cost.

Led incident response to a production breach via Next.js "React2Shell" (CVE-2025-55182, Dec. 2025) — removed the injected cryptominer mid-customer-engagement, rebuilt the server, and re-architected with Docker service isolation. The next exploit attempt was contained automatically — remediation took only a software update.

Designed an event-driven ML pipeline in Docker Compose + RabbitMQ, cutting manual operations by 90%. Built a Private Cloud with SSO via Keycloak securing 4 self-hosted services. Represented StarView at industry events (Corley & AWS Italy, Akamai partner meetings) — sourced $15k+ in service credits. Mentored 3 backend developers on Serverless patterns.

Backend & DevOps Instructor
Application Development Lifecycle Bootcamp · Torino, Italy
Mar. 2026 - May 2026

Co-organized a 3-month full-stack development bootcamp preparing 5 intern/junior candidates for entry-level positions. Taught backend (FastAPI + SQLAlchemy + Pydantic, PostgreSQL), DevOps fundamentals (Docker, GitLab CI/CD, Linux + Git), and the full application development lifecycle.

Built an interactive Git workshop tool — a Python CLI/TUI that scaffolds 24 hands-on exercises across 5 parts (foundational ops, history navigation, branching/merging, distributed workflows, history modification). Used in the bootcamp; published openly on GitHub.

Open the workshop on GitHub

Education

B.Sc. Computer Engineering
Politecnico di Torino
Oct. 2022 - Jun. 2027 (Expected)

30L/30 (with honors) in Cybersecurity and National Defence · 30/30 in Music and Multimedia Streaming (the course behind my MECAS project). Coursework: Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Databases, Algorithms, OOP, Computer Architecture.

B.Sc. Mining Engineering
University of Tehran
Oct. 2017 - Jan. 2022

Field internships across demanding mining operations. Learned stakeholder negotiation and composure under pressure that I now apply to production-incident response.

Technical Skills

What I use day-to-day. Each item is something I can speak to in interview detail.

Languages & Frameworks

Python FastAPI Pydantic SQLAlchemy boto3 NumPy SciPy Go net/http Gin GORM Bubble Tea

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Akamai Cloud Digital Ocean Docker Terraform Ansible NginX Traefik

CI/CD & Observability

GitLab CI GitHub Actions Jenkins Prometheus Grafana Sentry

Data, Messaging & Auth

PostgreSQL Redis MinIO S3 R2 RabbitMQ Supabase HashiCorp Vault Keycloak OpenID Connect

Tools, Systems & Architecture

Git REST Linux NixOS Bash Microservices Serverless Agile/Scrum

Currently learning

Rust Kubernetes (CKA) Kafka Azure AI/ML WASM

Selected Projects

A mix of academic-final-project depth and side-project breadth.

MECAS — Media Conversion & Streaming Service

FastAPI service for audio/video processing — SciPy + NumPy audio DSP (gain compression, voice enhancement, noise reduction) and FFmpeg video pipelines (grayscale, color inversion, frame interpolation, upscaling) across MP4/AVI/MOV up to 200MB.

View on GitHub

Stack:

FastAPI · SciPy + NumPy DSP · FFmpeg · Docker Compose · GitHub Actions → AWS

Highlights:

Modular layout across 4 packages (api, filters, formatings, frontend) with browser drag-and-drop and real-time filter parameter control. Final project for the Music and Multimedia Streaming course (graded 30/30).

Go Server Management Tool

Go · Bubble Tea TUI · YAML config · ssh / rsync

CLI with a TUI for picking servers and SSH keys from a YAML config, then dispatching ssh and rsync commands. Clean cmd/internal layout. Built to scratch my own itch managing multiple servers.

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SnippetBox Web App

Go · net/http · SCS · bcrypt · PostgreSQL

Full-stack Go web app following Alex Edwards's Let's Go book. A hands-on intro to Go's web stack and security patterns (CSRF protection, secure headers, session management).

View on GitHub →

Let's build something

Open to DevOps / Cloud Engineering roles in the EU. Drop a message below or email me directly.

Or email me directly: [email protected]