My Trainings
This page showcases the various educational and professional trainings I’ve undergone throughout my career, or at least those I remembered to include in my CV/portfolio 😅
Below are the distinct categories of my training journey:
Degrees
MSc in Computer Science
- University of Essex - www.essex.ac.uk
- Advanced computing concepts and technologies, with an emphasis on research and practical applications in areas such as data science and artificial intelligence.
BSc in Computer Software Engineering
- Politecnico di Torino - www.polito.it
- Foundations of Engineering as a discipline, along with electronics, telecommunications, and a focus on software engineering.
Certifications
EC-Council
Certified Application Security Engineer (CASE)
Reference: Insert the credential ID ECC6970254138.
Skillsoft
- Public Key Infrastructure and Certificate Distribution
- Java: Getting Started with Reflection
- Spring: Extending Applications with Aspect-oriented Programming
- Securing Information using Cryptography
- Security Architecture
- Cybersecurity Awareness and Threat Vectors
- Network Discovery Tools and Techniques
- Systems Hardening
- Malware Analysis
- Vulnerabilities, Systems Scanning and Exploitation
- Discovery and Attack Vectors
- Cybersecurity and Networking Fundamentals
- Helping Customers Find You
ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
Requirements Engineer - REQB Foundation Level
British Council
IELTS
Professional training
2023 - Internal courses at 10x Banking
These courses focused on Enginering Management.
- Saying It with Purpose
- 1-to-1s for Engineering Managers
- 10x Induction Fundamentals
- 10x Performance Management
- 10x Your Presentations
- Agile Development and Delivery for Engineering Managers
- Coaching and Career Development for Engineering Managers
- Feedback for Engineering Managers
- Guide to the Code Review Process for Engineering Managers
- How to Break Down Silos and Work Across Business Areas
- How to Stop Being Crazy Busy and Take Back Your Time
- Talk Nerdy to Me
- Tech Lead
- Unlock Creativity: Time of Day Matters
- Values and Behaviours for Engineering Managers
2023 - More technical training
- From Engineer to Technical Manager: A Survival Guide - Udemy
- LLM Fine Tuning on OpenAI - Udemy
- LangChain- Develop LLM powered applications with LangChain - Udemy
- LlamaIndex: Train ChatGPT (& other LLMs) on Custom Data - Udemy
- OKR Goal Setting 101 - Achieve more goals than ever! Faster! - Udemy
- Transition from Technical Individual Contributor to Manager - Udemy
2022 - Internal courses at Clim8
Training relative to management in fintech.
- Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing (Global)
- Business Ethics and Integrity
- Complaints Handling
- Conduct Rules for Conduct Rule Employees
- Data Protection
- Environmental Awareness
- Environmental Social and Governance (ESG)
- Equality and Diversity in the Workplace
- Financial Crime Prevention
- UK Financial Regulation
- Whistleblowing
- Mental Health at Work
- Conflicts of Interest
- Responsible Use of Social Media
- Treating Customers Fairly
- Unconscious Bias
2021
- Apache Kafka - Real-time Stream Processing (Master Class)
- Building Cloud Services with the Java Spring Framework - Coursera
- Kubernetes for Beginners: Google Cloud, AWS & Azure - Udemy
- Microservices Architecture - The Complete Guide - Udemy
- The Complete Guide to Becoming a Software Architect - Udemy
2020
- How to Manage a Remote Team - Coursera
2018
- Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift - link - code
DO180 - OpenShift Enterprise Administration - link - code
DO280 - OpenShift Enterprise Development - link - code
DO290
2014
Other training
For a pet project:
- Complete C# Unity 3D Game Development in Unity 6 - Udemy
- Complete Blender Creator: 3D Modelling - Udemy
Languages
- Italian - Mother tongue.
- English - Fluent, with over 10 years of working in English in the Netherlands and the UK.
- Greek - Sufficient for basic conversations, with a bit of English to fill in words I don’t know.
- Dutch - Basic. While working in the Netherlands, I could participate in meetings in Dutch, but speaking it correctly was another matter!