Nicola Ferraro

Nicola Ferraro has worked in the software engineering field since 2009. Nicola began their career as a Software Developer and Team Leader at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa, where they were responsible for developing protocols for exchanging VISA related information among Schengen states. In addition, they were responsible for delivering advanced training on key big data technologies to the whole organization. From 2016 to 2022, they worked at Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer. Currently, they are employed as a Software Engineer at Redpanda Data, where they are responsible for making red pandas fly in the cloud.

Nicola Ferraro obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering from Università della Calabria between 2003 and 2006. Nicola then went on to obtain a Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering from the same university between 2006 and 2008. In 2008, they completed a Master's Course in Machine Intelligence at Aalborg University. Nicola Ferraro also holds several certifications, including an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon in 2022, an Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect from Oracle in 2016, an Oracle Certified Expert, Java EE 6 Java Persistence API Developer from Oracle in 2014, an Oracle Certified Expert, Java EE 6 Web Services Developer from Oracle in 2014, an Oracle Certified Expert, Java EE 6 Enterprise JavaBeans Developer from Oracle in 2012, and a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, SE 6 from Sun Microsystems in 2010.