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Aerospace · SecDevOps Rebuild of Satellite-Imagery Platform

Leonardo S.p.A. (Freelance)

Role: SecDevOps / Platform Engineer (Freelance)GEOINT · Cloud Security · Platform EngineeringPrior experience — Michele Sanna, freelanceStatus: Completed

Zero-trust platform rebuild for a commercial satellite-imagery service: Kubernetes + Istio service mesh with mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE workload identity, SLSA-3 build pipelines with Sigstore signatures, and cryptographic tagging for export-controlled scenes.

  • Kubernetes
  • Istio
  • Terraform
  • Vault
  • ArgoCD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Trivy
  • Falco
  • Sigstore
  • PostGIS
3 weeks → 27 mindeployment lead-time (DORA elite tier)
22% → 3%change failure rate reduction
0 critical CVEsin production images for 11 consecutive months post-migration
4 months → 3 weeksnew defence-customer onboarding (ISO 27001 + NIS2 readiness passed)

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