Andrea Mauro has 20 years of experience in IT, both in the industry and the academic world. He currently works as a solution architect in an Italian IT company (founded in 2000). He is responsible for infrastructure implementation, architecture design, upgrades, and migration processes.
He is a virtualization and storage architect, specializing in VMware, but also Microsoft, Citrix, and Linux solutions. His first virtualized solution in production was built around ESX 2.x several years ago.
He is a VMware Italian User Group founder and board member, VMTN community moderator, vBrownbag and Backup Academy contributor, and a passionate blogger.
His professional certifications include not only several VMware certifications (VCP3/4/5/6-DCV, vSAN 2017 Specialist, different VCAP, VCIX6-DCV, VCIX-NV, VCDX3/4/5/6-DCV), but also other vendor-related certifications (MCITP, MCSA, MCSE, NPP, CCA, EMCIE, EMCSA, VMCE, VMCA). He is also a VMware vExpert (2010-17), Nutanix NTC (2014-17), and Veeam Vanguard (2015-17), and he was a Microsoft MVP (2014-16).
