# Thomas Vitale ☀️ (@thomasvitale.com)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/thomasvitale.com
Headline: Software Engineer | Author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action" | Java Champion | OSS Maintainer | Conference Speaker

## About

Thomas Vitale is a software engineer focused on building cloud native solutions, currently working at Systematic in Denmark. He is the author of the “Cloud Native Spring in Action” book and plays an active role in the cloud native ecosystem as a CNCF Ambassador, Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, and Testcontainers Community Champion.

Some of his main interests and focus areas are Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Generative AI, and cloud native technologies in general. He supports continuous delivery practices and believes in a collaboration culture aimed at working together to deliver value to users, customers, and businesses.

He's the creator and maintainer of the Arconia open-source project, a collection of libraries and tools to enhance developer experience and cloud native patterns for Java applications.

Thomas contributes to various open-source projects in the Java and cloud-native space, including Spring AI, LangChain4j, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Carvel, Dapr, and Buildpacks. He is also passionate about sharing his expertise with the community through talks, workshops, and writing on technical topics. His speaking engagements include those for KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, Devoxx, Spring I/O, GOTO, Jfokus, SpringOne, Voxxed Days, DevBcn, and KCD.

He has an MSc in Computer Engineering, specializing in software from the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy). He is a CNCF Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development, and Pivotal Certified Spring Professional.

## Career

- **Senior Software Architect at Systematic** (Jan 2025 - Present)
  Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, DK
- **App Development Working Group Co-Chair at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Cncf)** (May 2024 - Jun 2025)
  Co-Chair of the App Development Working Group, part of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group for App Delivery.
- **Experienced Software Architect at Systematic** (Oct 2023 - Jan 2025)
  Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, DK
- **Organizer at Cloud Native Denmark (Cnd)** (Jun 2023 - Jan 2025)
  Aarhus, Jutland Centrale
  Organizing the first-ever Kubernetes Community Days in Denmark.
- **Software Architect at Systematic** (Nov 2021 - Oct 2023)
  Aarhus, Jutland Centrale
- **Senior Systems Engineer at Systematic** (Jun 2020 - Nov 2021)
  Aarhus, Jutland Centrale
- **Systems Engineer at Systematic** (Sep 2017 - Jun 2020)
  Århus Area, DK
  • Software Engineer on the Columna Cura project for supporting home care, social services and help to citizens.
  • Specialised in developing back-end solutions with Java EE and Spring. Lead the development of features aimed at ensuring a high degree of security and data privacy.
  • Currently working on modernising our platforms and applications for the cloud-native world.
  • Work in an Agile team as Scrum Master (from January 2020) and Developer, focusing on delivering modern, secure and performant solutions. The product adopts healthcare standards like HL7® FHIR®, MedCom and FSIII.
- **Software Engineer at Leonardo** (Jan 2017 - Jun 2017)
  Turin Area, IT
  • Software Engineer Intern on the Simulation Framework project, a software developed by Leonardo Aircraft and adopted in flight simulators mainly for training pilots and instructors.
  • The goal was to develop an understanding of the software, determine the main issues, provide a precise analysis, create, define and document the software architecture and finally evaluate it, propose changes and improvements and investigate how to deal with the evolution of the software.
  • Aimed also at providing the company with the knowledge and tools needed to maintain the documentation and at developing a general method for software analysis and documentation so that it can be adopted by the company for other projects as well.

## Skills

### Other
- Ansible
- Application Security
- Cloud Native
- Cloud-Native Applications
- Databases
- Developer Experience
- DevOps
- Docker
- Git
- Gradle
- Java
- JSON
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Microservices
- OAuth 2.0
- Platform Engineering
- PostgreSQL
- Public Speaking
- REST API
- Software Architecture
- Software Design
- Software Development
- Software Engineering
- Spring Boot
- Spring Cloud
- Spring Security
- SQL
- XML

## Projects

- **WordPress** — https://wordpress.org/ (2015 - 2019)
  • Contributor: 2015 to 2019. Contribute to the works of the following Teams: Support, Polyglots, Community, Meta and Core.
  • Organiser: 2016 to 2017. Co-Organiser of WordPress Meetup Torino and WordCamp Torino 2017. Led the Website team made up of 3 people for WordCamp Torino 2017.
  • Speaker: 2016 to 2019. Deliver talks about security for web applications, WordPress themes and plugins development at dedicated conferences and events (WordCamp London 2018, WordCamp Torino 2018, WordCamp Oslo 2018, WordCamp Torino 2017, WordPress Meetup Torino 2016)

## Publications

- Cloud Native Spring in Action — Manning (Nov 2022) https://www.manning.com/books/cloud-native-spring-in-action

## Credentials

- Speaker: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 — The Linux Foundation (Apr 2026) https://www.credly.com/badges/8531be13-213a-4808-a021-3f9418fb8a75/public_url
- Speaker: Cloud Native AI + Kubeflow Day EU 2026 — The Linux Foundation (Mar 2026) https://www.credly.com/badges/9ffc2d02-fcb9-4517-8206-1540b12d0412/public_url
- Speaker: Platform Engineering Day EU 2026 — The Linux Foundation (Mar 2026) https://www.credly.com/badges/6e5f676a-2cca-478e-9991-a85208dc771c/public_url
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development — Red Hat (Jan 2023) https://www.credly.com/badges/d31973e2-52d8-49c3-95d1-28be37b1b6c7/public_url
- CNCF Ambassador — The Linux Foundation (Nov 2024) https://www.credly.com/badges/e44d6979-0eb2-4f72-b548-444fbbabc1b9/public_url
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer — Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) (Aug 2022) https://www.credly.com/badges/f221957a-0cdf-46c5-ab54-dad5f6b066fe/public_url
- Speaker: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 — The Linux Foundation (Apr 2025) https://www.credly.com/badges/804c6dda-d610-470d-a17c-ac0d330ba25a/public_url
- Track Chair: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 — The Linux Foundation (Jan 2025) https://www.credly.com/badges/ae1dca07-14d1-4503-96d5-bec2b57141d0/public_url
- KCD Organizer 2024 — The Linux Foundation (Dec 2024) https://www.credly.com/badges/f1343bb7-f3b0-4291-852d-3cad90351e54/public_url
- CNCF Ambassador — The Linux Foundation (Oct 2023) https://www.credly.com/badges/901d66ab-abea-4765-b39b-9b5ed4633482/public_url
- Speaker: KCD Munich 2024 — The Linux Foundation (Jul 2024) https://www.credly.com/badges/37a6af71-5600-487a-a2a0-e30a3264b337/public_url
- Speaker: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 — The Linux Foundation (Mar 2024) https://www.credly.com/badges/8363d322-d67f-4241-9d18-b8c302f7d479/public_url
- Program Committee Member: Kubernetes Community Days 2023 — The Linux Foundation (Nov 2023) https://www.credly.com/badges/4cae0e13-0401-41ca-bc87-49c65dfff972/public_url
- LFC102: Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation — The Linux Foundation (Jun 2023) https://www.credly.com/badges/4648d7b9-f9cf-4b55-9b8d-f8b626342ec8
- Red Hat Certified Enterprise Application Developer — Red Hat (Nov 2019) https://www.redhat.com/rhtapps/services/certifications/badge/verify/6DEXQLJ7GWZ6TRQLFCENYITHQUAEQU3CUPSQX2KSDXT6RW46LQ3TDKGZ4OQQD6K2ZRZ7NYKH5QQYM4U5NQYTCNA62RUWOCM34WWBUYQ=
- Speaker: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 — The Linux Foundation (May 2022) https://www.credly.com/badges/128406c7-3056-4a9a-a03a-fbc6b3f8e3c9
- Pivotal Certified Spring Professional — Pivotal Software, Inc. (Apr 2020) http://bcert.me/smsyqilcn

## Education

- **Politecnico di Torino** — Laurea Magistrale (2015 - 2017)
  Master Thesis: "Analysis and Assessment of a Software Architecture for a Simulation Framework in the Aeronautics Domain" (Leonardo Aircraft).
- **Politecnico di Torino** — Laurea (2012 - 2015)

## Languages

- Italiano (native)
- Inglese (full professional)
- Danish (elementary)

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitalethomas