
Diego Lagos Morales engineered robust cloud infrastructure and deployment automation across the pagopa/cstar-infrastructure and related repositories, focusing on secure, scalable Azure environments. He modernized CI/CD pipelines, introduced blue/green AKS node pools, and automated TLS certificate provisioning using Terraform and Azure DevOps, improving deployment reliability and security. Diego migrated legacy CDN resources to Azure Front Door, enhanced observability with Grafana and InfluxDB, and streamlined resource management with modular Infrastructure as Code. Leveraging Bash, YAML, and Terraform, he addressed operational risk by standardizing secrets management, optimizing network configurations, and enabling environment-specific automation, demonstrating depth in cloud engineering and DevOps best practices.

In October 2025, delivered cross-repo improvements spanning performance, reliability, data architecture, and deployment hardening. Implemented scalable performance testing, hardened production deployments, and modernized infrastructure tooling to reduce risk and improve time-to-value for key business features.
In October 2025, delivered cross-repo improvements spanning performance, reliability, data architecture, and deployment hardening. Implemented scalable performance testing, hardened production deployments, and modernized infrastructure tooling to reduce risk and improve time-to-value for key business features.
September 2025 delivered security-focused platform upgrades, reliability improvements, and platform maturity across Pagopa infra. Key business value includes strengthened access control with ArgoCD Entra integration and private environments, consistent telemetry and observability via InfluxDB for Grafana/k6, improved platform traceability with MDC tagging, and stabilized AKS deployments through Terraform hardening. Also introduced modern edge/CDN capabilities with Azure Front Door and TLS provisioning across environments, enabling safer, faster deployments and reduced operational risk.
September 2025 delivered security-focused platform upgrades, reliability improvements, and platform maturity across Pagopa infra. Key business value includes strengthened access control with ArgoCD Entra integration and private environments, consistent telemetry and observability via InfluxDB for Grafana/k6, improved platform traceability with MDC tagging, and stabilized AKS deployments through Terraform hardening. Also introduced modern edge/CDN capabilities with Azure Front Door and TLS provisioning across environments, enabling safer, faster deployments and reduced operational risk.
August 2025 monthly summary: Delivered DevOps and infrastructure enhancements across pagopa/cstar-platform-azure-devops and pagopa/cstar-securehub-infra, focusing on alignment of pipelines and CDN resources with renamed frontend projects and the modernization of CDN infrastructure. Achievements include pipeline environment alignment, migration from classic Azure CDN to Azure Front Door Standard, Terraform provider upgrades, and targeted CDN reconfigurations for Selfcare, Asset Register, and Bonus Elettrodomestici. These changes reduce deployment misconfigurations, ensure correct asset delivery, and improve global content delivery reliability and performance. Skills demonstrated include Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), cloud networking, and release management.
August 2025 monthly summary: Delivered DevOps and infrastructure enhancements across pagopa/cstar-platform-azure-devops and pagopa/cstar-securehub-infra, focusing on alignment of pipelines and CDN resources with renamed frontend projects and the modernization of CDN infrastructure. Achievements include pipeline environment alignment, migration from classic Azure CDN to Azure Front Door Standard, Terraform provider upgrades, and targeted CDN reconfigurations for Selfcare, Asset Register, and Bonus Elettrodomestici. These changes reduce deployment misconfigurations, ensure correct asset delivery, and improve global content delivery reliability and performance. Skills demonstrated include Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), cloud networking, and release management.
July 2025 monthly summary: Implemented secure, scalable infrastructure and readiness for production across multiple environments. Delivered SRTP CAE infrastructure with private networking, DNS zones, monitoring, and secure storage of connection strings; rolled out blue/green AKS deployments with NAT gateway integration and updated workload identity/OIDC; enhanced ArgoCD with environment-scoped filtering and production-ready configurations; added audit logging for AKS in IDPay and migrated AWS SES to eu-central-1 with Terraform reorganization. Expanded CI/CD and governance by adding container app delegation, identity resource group initialization, and granular CSTAR node pools. Strengthened resilience with disaster recovery enhancements for IdPay pods.
July 2025 monthly summary: Implemented secure, scalable infrastructure and readiness for production across multiple environments. Delivered SRTP CAE infrastructure with private networking, DNS zones, monitoring, and secure storage of connection strings; rolled out blue/green AKS deployments with NAT gateway integration and updated workload identity/OIDC; enhanced ArgoCD with environment-scoped filtering and production-ready configurations; added audit logging for AKS in IDPay and migrated AWS SES to eu-central-1 with Terraform reorganization. Expanded CI/CD and governance by adding container app delegation, identity resource group initialization, and granular CSTAR node pools. Strengthened resilience with disaster recovery enhancements for IdPay pods.
June 2025 performance summary for the Pagopa platform engineering team. Delivered security-hardening, modular IaC, and automation improvements across SRTP infra, Terraform modules, and DevOps pipelines. Highlights include SRTP resource group standardization with centralized secrets via Azure Key Vault and SOPS; new Azure platform resources module (platform_coder) for dev/prod/uat; platform infrastructure refactor with Grafana dashboards and synthetic monitoring; workload identity enhancements for IdPay Italy and AKS; TLS certificate provisioning automation across ITN infrastructure; Private Link DNS for Azure PostgreSQL; and blue/green IDPay AKS node pools. These changes strengthen security posture, improve deployment reliability, and accelerate onboarding of new environments.
June 2025 performance summary for the Pagopa platform engineering team. Delivered security-hardening, modular IaC, and automation improvements across SRTP infra, Terraform modules, and DevOps pipelines. Highlights include SRTP resource group standardization with centralized secrets via Azure Key Vault and SOPS; new Azure platform resources module (platform_coder) for dev/prod/uat; platform infrastructure refactor with Grafana dashboards and synthetic monitoring; workload identity enhancements for IdPay Italy and AKS; TLS certificate provisioning automation across ITN infrastructure; Private Link DNS for Azure PostgreSQL; and blue/green IDPay AKS node pools. These changes strengthen security posture, improve deployment reliability, and accelerate onboarding of new environments.
May 2025 monthly summary for pagopa/cstar-infrastructure: Focused on simplifying CI/CD pipelines by removing Packer-based IaC, reducing complexity and aligning tooling with updated deployment strategy. The change delivers faster deployments, easier maintenance, and a clearer infrastructure-as-code approach. No major bug fixes this month; instead, the team concentrated on streamlining the release pipelines and reinforcing CI/CD reliability.
May 2025 monthly summary for pagopa/cstar-infrastructure: Focused on simplifying CI/CD pipelines by removing Packer-based IaC, reducing complexity and aligning tooling with updated deployment strategy. The change delivers faster deployments, easier maintenance, and a clearer infrastructure-as-code approach. No major bug fixes this month; instead, the team concentrated on streamlining the release pipelines and reinforcing CI/CD reliability.
April 2025 — Delivered infrastructure reliability improvements and feature modernization across two repositories, focusing on reducing operational noise, upgrading foundational modules, and strengthening security with private endpoints and Key Vault integration. Key outcomes include a Terraform ignore_changes fix for azurerm_virtual_network to suppress ddos_protection_plan warnings, and an infrastructure modernization effort for IDPay that upgrades Terraform modules and establishes dedicated Event Hub namespaces with private endpoints and Key Vault integration to improve event handling and infrastructure reliability.
April 2025 — Delivered infrastructure reliability improvements and feature modernization across two repositories, focusing on reducing operational noise, upgrading foundational modules, and strengthening security with private endpoints and Key Vault integration. Key outcomes include a Terraform ignore_changes fix for azurerm_virtual_network to suppress ddos_protection_plan warnings, and an infrastructure modernization effort for IDPay that upgrades Terraform modules and establishes dedicated Event Hub namespaces with private endpoints and Key Vault integration to improve event handling and infrastructure reliability.
March 2025: Delivered Azure Redis Cache infrastructure and security enhancements in pagopa/cstar-infrastructure. Implemented a dedicated subnet, private DNS, and private endpoints; adopted module-based configuration for environment-wide consistency; upgraded Terraform module to v8.86.0 for stability and future-proofing. No major bugs reported this month; minor maintenance tasks completed to ensure deployment reliability. Business impact includes improved security posture, isolated networking for Redis, faster provisioning, and scalable Redis usage across environments.
March 2025: Delivered Azure Redis Cache infrastructure and security enhancements in pagopa/cstar-infrastructure. Implemented a dedicated subnet, private DNS, and private endpoints; adopted module-based configuration for environment-wide consistency; upgraded Terraform module to v8.86.0 for stability and future-proofing. No major bugs reported this month; minor maintenance tasks completed to ensure deployment reliability. Business impact includes improved security posture, isolated networking for Redis, faster provisioning, and scalable Redis usage across environments.
February 2025 infrastructure month focused on stabilization, modernization, and cross-region reliability. Delivered production-ready observability and secure networking changes across two repositories, with a strong emphasis on reducing operational risk and enabling scalable growth.
February 2025 infrastructure month focused on stabilization, modernization, and cross-region reliability. Delivered production-ready observability and secure networking changes across two repositories, with a strong emphasis on reducing operational risk and enabling scalable growth.
January 2025 monthly summary for pagopa/p4pa-payhub-deploy-aks. Focused on reconfiguring deployment parameters and enhancing deployment messaging, triggers, and observability to improve reliability, troubleshooting, and operator experience. The changes align deployments with the new APPS_EXT designation, reduce misconfigurations, and provide clearer, actionable logs for faster issue resolution.
January 2025 monthly summary for pagopa/p4pa-payhub-deploy-aks. Focused on reconfiguring deployment parameters and enhancing deployment messaging, triggers, and observability to improve reliability, troubleshooting, and operator experience. The changes align deployments with the new APPS_EXT designation, reduce misconfigurations, and provide clearer, actionable logs for faster issue resolution.
December 2024: Delivered a streamlined ArgoCD deployment configuration for pagopa/p4pa-payhub-deploy-aks by removing the root application and the redundant root sync step, and by introducing an area-based naming convention. This reduces deployment complexity, accelerates release cycles, and improves reliability for area-scoped deployments. The changes were implemented via commit 6a96e99372f34d89e7c31e7f8da5c41a9482f0ee (deploy: removed root section). Result: clearer environment targeting, easier maintenance, and lower blast radius in CI/CD pipelines.
December 2024: Delivered a streamlined ArgoCD deployment configuration for pagopa/p4pa-payhub-deploy-aks by removing the root application and the redundant root sync step, and by introducing an area-based naming convention. This reduces deployment complexity, accelerates release cycles, and improves reliability for area-scoped deployments. The changes were implemented via commit 6a96e99372f34d89e7c31e7f8da5c41a9482f0ee (deploy: removed root section). Result: clearer environment targeting, easier maintenance, and lower blast radius in CI/CD pipelines.
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