About
Emanuele Lele Calo is an infrastructure engineer with over 20 years of experience in systems architecture and operations. He has spent approximately five years in cryptocurrency and Web3 infrastructure roles at organizations including Kraken, Switchboard, and Linera, focusing on validator operations, oracle network design, and layer-one and layer-two network scaling. His technical expertise spans Kubernetes, Linux, cloud platforms, blockchain infrastructure, and observability systems, and he operates as an independent consultant through his Italian entity.
Experience
- sshAdm.inSelf Employed IT Kubernetes/NixOS/Linux/Cloud specialistcurrent2012 — present
- LineraHead of Infrastructure | Lead Sr. DevOps/SRE | Crypto infra wizard2025 — 2026Italy
- SwitchboardBlockchain Cultist - DevOps / SRE Engineer2024 — 2025
- TintLead SRE2023 — 2024
- Kraken Digital Asset ExchangeSr DevOps & SRE2022
- Ada IncSr DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer2021 — 2022
- TeleportDevOps + Support Engineer and Kubernetes Wizard2017 — 2021
- End Point CorporationSystem Administrator, DevOps & Team manager2013 — 2017
- JazzwareIT specialist Consultant2010 — 2012Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
- PrivateWave by Khamsa Italia S.p.A.System Administrator & Security Expert2010Milan, Lombardy, Italy
- KHAMSASysAdmin & Security expert2008 — 2010Milan, Lombardy, Italy
- Motta Sistemi per UfficioSysAdmin & Security expert2006 — 2008Milan, Lombardy, Italy
- Future Media ItalyJournalist2005 — 2006Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Education
- Università MercatorumLaurea Triennale / Bachelor Degree, Ingegneria informatica / Computer Engineering
Skills & more
Infrastructure Management1CryptocurrencyTypeScriptCassandraGo (Programming Language)NomadHosting ServicesKubernetes4DevOps2Cloud Computing7System Administration16Linux System Administration14
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Server AdministrationNetwork AdministrationNetwork SecuritySecurityGentooNagiosShell ScriptingarchlinuxLeadershipRust (Programming Language)SolanaBlockchainLanguages English · Italian · Spanish
- CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator — The Linux Foundation
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Colleagues at Marin Digital Ventures
Frequently asked questions
- Where does Emanuele Lele Calo work?
- Emanuele Lele Calo is Head of Infrastructure at Marin Digital Ventures.
Shared employers
Also worked at Tint3
Also worked at Ada Inc9
Bronwyn SmithOperating & Venture Partner at Round13 CapitalBrian FeinsteinPartner at Bessemer Venture PartnersGideon HaydenCo-Founder and Managing Partner at Leaders FundDavid KamenetskyPrincipal at Leaders FundJJ TangCo-founder at RootlyAdi PatelFounder at Clearline
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