Antonio Alfano

Critical Facilities Operations Lead at SustainHash Technologies
Dual US/Canadian Citizen
No Visa Required
Relocating Immediately

Executive Mission Profile

I am a full-cycle Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). My workflow rotates between three critical environments: On-Site Operations (managing 200PH data centers), The Repair Bench (component-level BGA rework), and Remote Command (monitoring 5 sites via custom telemetry).

I manage 5 distributed facilities across Alberta, ranging from remote 6 Petahash edge sites to a massive flagship facility. I bridge the gap between the physical electron and the cloud database. I don't just write the code; I drive the truck, solder the chip, and configure the router.

Operational Resilience: Incident Response

Scenario: Critical Infrastructure Failure at 3:00 AM

The Incident: A primary grid failure hits a remote site in -30°F conditions. Monitoring alerts wake me at 03:00.

The Response: I deploy immediately, driving hours through blizzard conditions to the facility. Upon arrival, the backup generator cannot support the full 100% load.

The Execution: I manually execute dynamic load shedding. I physically move and re-balance miners to match the generator's amperage constraints, prioritizing high-efficiency units to maximize hashrate per watt. Once balanced, I re-map the local network topology to ensure all active units are broadcasting to the stratum proxy.

The Result: The site remains operational and profitable 24/7 throughout the power restraint, maximizing revenue until grid resolution.

The Full Stack: From Silicon to Cloud

Layer 1: The Physical Hardware (Tier 3 Ops)

When I am not on-site, I am at the shop. I perform component-level BGA rework on Bitmain S19/S21 and Whatsminer fleets. Using schematics and oscilloscopes, I diagnose voltage rail failures (12V/1.8V/0.8V), replace shorted MOSFETs, and reflow hashboard chips. I manage the power that feeds them—balancing amperage loads across 415V/240V PDUs to ensure neutral lines don't overheat.

Layer 2: The Firmware & Network

Hardware is useless without connectivity. I engineered the on-site network topology using VLAN segmentation to prioritize stratum traffic over management data. To control the hardware, I bypassed slow web interfaces and reverse-engineered the miner communication protocols. I wrote custom firmware injection tools in C# .NET that open raw TCP/IP sockets to the machines, allowing me to query chip temperatures and hashrates in milliseconds.

Layer 3: The Cloud & Automation

Data needs a home. I architected Project Titan, a self-healing cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Using Terraform (IaC), I deploy resilient SQL databases and API endpoints that ingest telemetry from the 5 physical sites. I built an "Active Defense" security layer—a Python/C# daemon that monitors network packets for anomalies (DDoS/SYN Floods) and automatically updates the Azure Network Security Group (NSG) to block threats in real-time.

System Architecture: This Portfolio

You are viewing this portfolio on infrastructure I architected and secured myself. This demonstrates my ability to manage enterprise Linux environments.

Azure Virtual Machine

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Kernel. Hardened with a strict NSG allow-list (Ports 80/443 only).

Nginx Reverse Proxy

Manually configured for high-performance GZIP compression and version obfuscation.

Enterprise Security

RSA-2048 SSL Encryption. HSTS Headers enforced to prevent protocol downgrade attacks.