Daniele Viti

Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer  |  Full-Stack Developer  |  Open-Source Maintainer
📋 PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

IT professional specialising in virtualisation infrastructure, server administration, and full-stack development. Currently at Var Group, one of Italy's leading IT integrators. Creator of Arsenale, an open-source PAM platform (Node.js, React, PostgreSQL). Power user of Claude Code for AI-assisted agentic development, and author of CodeClaw — a Claude Code plugin for structured task management and gated release pipelines. Runs a private datacenter for self-hosted services including AI inference.

💼 EXPERIENCE
Infrastructure & Virtualisation Engineer Present
Var Group S.p.A. — Italy
  • Design, deploy, and manage enterprise virtualisation infrastructure (VMware vSphere, OpenShift).
  • Administer Linux servers (RHEL, Debian, Fedora) and containerised workloads (Docker, K8s, Cilium).
  • Leverage Claude Code as primary AI-assisted development tool for automation and infrastructure scripting.
  • Support hybrid-cloud migrations; collaborate with Digital Security on hardening & compliance.
Creator & Lead Developer — Arsenale PAM Ongoing
Open Source  |  arsenalepam.com  |  github.com/dnviti
  • Architected a self-hosted PAM platform: SSH (ssh2), RDP (guacd), VNC + AES-256-GCM encrypted vault.
  • Stack: Node.js/Express, React, PostgreSQL + Prisma, Socket.IO. Auth: JWT, TOTP, Argon2id.
  • Multi-tenancy, drag-and-drop folders, multi-tab sessions, session recording.
  • Developed entirely with Claude Code agentic workflows; competitive vs CyberArk, Azure Bastion, Keeper.
  • Roadmap: AI log analysis, IP blacklist, MCP integration, Lua plugins, webhooks, SBOM (SPDX).
⌨️ CLAUDE CODE & AI-ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT
CodeClaw Claude Code Plugin

Open-source Claude Code plugin for structured task & idea management with a gated release pipeline, parallel sub-agent orchestration, Git worktrees, GitHub/GitLab Issues integration, agentic fleet CI/CD, and Docker tagging strategy. MIT licensed.

github.com/dnviti/codeclaw
  • Claude Code is the primary development environment for all personal and open-source projects.
  • Built CodeClaw plugin: slash-command skills, gated releases, per-PR sub-agents, multi-provider agentic fleet.
  • MCP server integration expertise; prompt engineering for structured AI-driven development workflows.
  • Uses Claude Code for infrastructure automation, code review, security analysis, and documentation.
🎓 EDUCATION
ITS Umbria Smart Academy
Higher Technical Education (ITS) — IT & Digital Technologies  |  Foligno, Italy
📦 OTHER PROJECTS & OPEN SOURCE
📦Arsenale PAM — Self-hosted PAM platform — 82 repos on GitHub. Arctic Code Vault Contributor.
🤖Arsenale AI Chatbot — Self-hosted LLM (Qwen 3.5 0.8B / llama.cpp) + RAG, private datacenter infrastructure.
🔧Infra Tooling — Docker/iptables networking, Caddy TLS reverse proxy, cloud automation scripts.
🔏Pen Testing Suite — OWASP-based penetration testing prompts & frameworks for Arsenale (CVSS v3.1, CWE).
🛡️ SECURITY EXPERTISE
OWASP Top 10 CVSS v3.1 CWE Pen Testing JWT / TOTP / MFA AES-256-GCM Argon2id TLS / mTLS Zero Trust Vault Encryption
🖥️ INFRASTRUCTURE & HOMELAB
Private Datacenter Self-Hosted LLM Docker Compose Caddy Reverse Proxy Hetzner Cloud Debian VPS iptables systemd GRUB / LVM / BTRFS Proxmox OpenShift PVC Homelab DNS / ACME
🔄 METHODOLOGIES & PRACTICES
Agile / Kanban GitFlow Code Review Threat Modeling IaC CI/CD Pipelines 12-Factor Apps API-First Design Multi-Tenancy Event-Driven Microservices REST / WebSocket
🧠 AI & LLM STACK
Claude Code Claude API Anthropic MCP Prompt Engineering llama.cpp Qwen Models RAG Pipelines ChromaDB SQLite-vec LLM Self-Hosting
🤝 SOFT SKILLS & APPROACH
🧩 Problem solver with a security-first, automation-driven mindset.
🤝 Strong cross-team collaboration; bridge between dev, ops, and security.
📚 Continuous learner — actively explores AI/LLM tooling, emerging frameworks, and open-source ecosystems.
🚀 Self-starter: built and maintains production-grade open-source projects end-to-end.
💬 Effective technical communicator — documentation, architecture diagrams, and stakeholder reporting.
🌐 Open-source advocate — contributes to community-driven projects and knowledge sharing.