Riccardo Padovani

@rpadovani
Changing the world bit by bit
Munich, Germany
He/him

Platform Engineer

Game Player

University Graduate

Blogger

AWS

Book Worm

Traveler

Language

Hobby

Reader

Speaker

Volunteer

Mentor

DevOps

Software Engineering

Cyber Security

Open Source

GCP

An incurable optimist who loves implementing tools to enable people working on their goals, and finding solutions to hard problems.

I mainly throw fairy dust to clouds, blog boring stuff, and enjoy life.

I'm open to

open source contributions,

joining company boards,

making introductions,

content creation,

brainstorming,

speaking on podcasts,

talking to journalists,

and freelance roles.

Contact Me

Resume

Sep 2022 - Present

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Google

May 2021 - Aug 2022

Platform Engineer, Dock Financial

Portfolio

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Managing Helm Custom Resource Definitions with Terraform? Easy-peasy, thanks to this new module! I have blogged about it: https://rpadovani.com/terraform-helm-crds-manager

I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦. And I think it is essential sharing it. We have unfortunately entered the fourth week of war, and news and pictures we receive from there are each day more heartbreaking. M...

Do you want your Terraform code to wait for cloud-init to finish before marking an AWS EC2 instance as ready? Then let's take a look together at how to leverage AWS Systems Manager to accomplish ju...

"Be excellent to each other!" A simply and straightforward policy for the comment system I've added to my blog. Finally, after 8 years of blogging, we can engage directly on my blog without using s...

Things I’ve built

My second game for Ubuntu for Phones: Falldown! Falldown is a cartoon game where you have to tilt your phone to make a ball fall down quickly with rhythmic music. Don't get squashed! https://launch...

My first application for Ubuntu for Phones: an open-source clone for Ubuntu for Phones of 100 Balls, based on Bacon2D. https://github.com/rpadovani/100balls

Articles and blogs

I think you should contribute to GitLab, 'cause it is fun, instructive, they have nice swag, and many more reasons! So, I've written about it :-) Pro-tip: next week there is a Hackathon, what bette...

Accessing #Rust crates in a private Git repository in a way that is easy and secure both for developers and continuous integration systems can be tricky. Let's take a look at a neat Git feature, an...

Do you know that IAM permissions for AWS EKS are broken? If you want to be a good #devops and scope permissions to access just one cluster, you are in for a wild ride. https://rpadovani.com/eks-iam...