I’m Kilian Ciuffolo – a Cloud Systems Architect and Full Stack Developer with over 15y of experience.

I have built and designed large-scale Distributed Systems and Microservice architectures (Domain Driven Design). As both a project leader and individual contributor, I advocate Rapid Development practices, iterating on functioning code via rapid release cycles. I’m particularly passionate about tooling, automation, and optimization of the software development process (Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC, etc.)

While my focus is primarily on Javascript because of its ubiquity (web, mobile, client, server) and I fully embrace both the good and the bad parts of the language, I always aim to build business oriented infrastructures that encourage innovation and growth keeping the engineering cost to the minimum.

I believe in the awesome power of design. I love to work with great design – beauty and usability are essential features, critical to the success of any product.

I naturally gravitate to leadership roles. I love organizing people and processes to faithfully execute the vision of a project.

I’m a devotee of the open source software community and its ethos. I regularly contribute to several open source projects, in addition to leading a few, such as rTail and node-apiserver.