M.Sc. CS student · Distributed Systems & Systems Programming · Go, C, Python

Build clean, fast, useful software.

M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering student at Politecnico di Milano, with an exchange semester at Chalmers University of Technology (2026–27). Builds software systems end to end, from Linux kernel drivers to distributed backends deployed on self-hosted Kubernetes.

Merged contributor to DuckDB. Interested in building distributed systems, databases, and large-scale data processing.

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Featured Work

Go · React · Docker · Kubernetes (k3s) · CI/CD

Tris Inception — Distributed Game Engine

Designed and deployed a distributed game engine in Go, exploring stateless backend architecture, container orchestration with self-hosted Kubernetes (k3s), and fully automated GitOps deployment via GitHub Actions. Features Traefik ingress and automated TLS certificate provisioning.

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C · Linux Kernel · IIO · Regmap · I2C

LSM6DSOX — Linux Kernel IIO Driver

Educational Linux kernel driver for the ST LSM6DSOX 6-axis IMU (accelerometer & gyroscope). Integrated with the Industrial I/O (IIO) subsystem supporting sysfs direct reads, high-speed streaming via triggered kfifo buffers, regmap over I2C, and devm resource management.

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Java · Java RMI · Socket · Java FX GUI · MVC pattern

Galaxy Trucker

Java client-server implementation of the board game Galaxy Trucker using RMI and sockets, with JavaFX GUI and MVC architecture. Team project focused on networking, concurrency, and software design.

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Linux · Docker · Immich · Tailscale

Personal Homelab & Self-Hosted Photos

Personal homelab set up to experiment with self-hosting and private networking. Installed and ran Immich on a Linux server using Docker, with secure remote access from mobile devices via Tailscale, focusing on system setup, networking, and data ownership.

GitHub Actions · Pandoc · Tectonic · Cloudflare Pages

Automated Portfolio & CV

CI/CD pipeline to auto-generate portfolio and CV from a single YAML source (GitHub Actions, Cloudflare Pages).

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Experience

Feb 2025 – Sep 2025

Performance Engineer Analyst

MOVIRI S.p.A. · Milano
  • Developed and updated over 50 Python integrations between Splunk and Dynatrace, reducing API calls by 30% through logic optimization.
  • Used Selenium for automation tasks and validation of performance workflows.
  • Automated key steps of recurring report-generation workflows, eliminating the manual work for those reports.
Apr 2025 – Present

Voting and active member

Politecnico Open Unix Labs (POuL) · Milano
  • Held the Git 101 course (2026 edition) as a speaker for 300+ students, covering essential concepts.
  • Assisting the sysadmin team by learning Kubernetes to support the lab’s infrastructure management.

About

I'm Lorenzo D’Ortona, a M.Sc. CS student · Distributed Systems & Systems Programming · Go, C, Python based in Milano, Italia. I care about clean design, practical security and building things that work well. I like open-source and learning by shipping.

Education
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering
Politecnico di Milano · 2025 – Present
Exchange Semester (incoming)
Chalmers University of Technology · 2026 – 2027
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (Final grade: 99/110)
Politecnico di Milano · 2022 – 2025

Technical Skills

Programming
Python (advanced)C (intermediate)C++GoJavaSQL
Automation & Cloud
DockerKubernetes (k3s)CI/CD (GitHub Actions)Selenium
Languages
Italian (Native)English (Advanced – TOEIC 920/990)
Core Competencies
  • Algorithms & Data Structures
  • Distributed Systems
  • Linux
Research Interests
Distributed systemsDatabases & data systemsSystems programmingLarge-scale data processing

Open Source Contributions

DuckDB

Added the duckdb_secret_type_parameters() system table function, exposing secret-type parameter schemas via SQL (merged).

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Prometheus (CNCF)

Improved test coverage for the config validation package from 85.4% to 88.8% (PR open).

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dennwc/varint

Added edge case and overflow tests for ProtoTag and Uvarint encoding, bringing coverage to 92.6% (merged).

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Let's build something together.

Currently based in Milano, Italia. Open to interesting opportunities.

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