Lee Azzarello

About Lee Azzarello

With a strong background in hardware and software, I specialize in architecting and managing scalable distributed systems, from cloud computing to embedded IoT. I’ve developed global hybrid cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and real-time data streaming solutions for petabyte-scale datasets. I’ve worked in industries including aerospace, wearable tech, telecom, publishing, and blockchain.Additionally, I’ve built inference APIs for self-hosted generative AI models in speech synthesis and music composition. I’ve also led security audits and collaborated on offensive security threat modeling. Outside work, I blend my passion for technology with music, focusing on piano, composition, and spatial audio research.

Experience

1. Consultant

   Human Rights Data Analysis Group

   Nov 2024 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   GNAR provides consulting services to extend and maintain a scientific computing backend for a group of data scientists dedicated to extending human rights on an international scale. The organization faces unique security and privacy concerns due to the controversial nature of some results, which have been used as evidence in international tribunals. Their HPC backend provides hundreds of CPU cores and offers optional GPU compute through the Nvidia CUDA framework.I am serving as an advisor in the design of a private IPFS collaborative cluster aimed at exposing terabytes of data across a global partner network. This cluster will provide decentralized storage among partner organizations using low-cost COTS hardware, ensuring scalability and reliability while maintaining high standards of security and privacy.

Education

• Antioch College

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Music

  1996 — 2000

• Y Combinator

  Startup Accelerator

  2018 — 2018

Skills

• Kibana
• Prometheus
• Git
• Pki
• Databases
• Fluentd
• Debian
• Digital Signal Processing
• Web2py
• Agile Methodologies
• Perl
• Elasticsearch
• Embedded Linux
• Nagios
• Debian Gnu/Linux
• Tcp/Ip
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Raspberry Pi
• Ruby on Rails
• Cloud Computing
• Docker
• Munin
• Web Development
• Ec2
• Chef
• Linux
• Amazon Ec2
• Apache
• Mysql
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Java
• Arduino
• Kubernetes
• Logstash
• Web Applications
• Midi
• Postgresql
• Python
• Ansible