PORTFOLIO / 2026 — ORBIT 001
VITO SANSEVERO
I build stuff
VP, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & CLOUD OPERATIONS
Career numbers
SCALE, MEASURED
- 0 YEARS SHIPPING
- 0 CONNECTED HOMES
- 0 CLUSTERS GLOBALLY
- 0 HYPERSCALERS
- 0 COUNTRIES, ONE TEAM
- 0 PRODUCTS
- 0 LIVE SAAS
Three pillars
THE HACKER
Self taught. Technology executive with 30 years of experience.
THE MENTOR
Dropping science by example.
THE TECHNOLOGIST
From firmware and kernels, to massive cloud deployments.
THE ARC — 1997 TO NOW
FIRMWARE
TO FRONTIER
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1997 — THE CRUCIBLE
GAMESPY
ONLINE GAMING, DAY ONE
High availability learned the hard way — millions of concurrent sessions, where a 200ms delay is an outage.
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1999–2009 — THE ACQUISITION
LINKSYS → CISCO
THROUGH THE $500M DEAL
Ran the network through the acquisition, then built the open-source build & compliance system behind 30+ SKUs — including the legendary WRT54G.
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2009–2021 — THE PIONEER
GREENWAVE
12 YEARS, IOT BEFORE IOT
Multi-region AWS before GDPR made it mandatory, utility-scale Cassandra, and patents in smart lighting.
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2021–NOW — THE HYPERSCALER
AXON NETWORKS
BOOTSTRAPPED MID-PANDEMIC
From zero to 45 clusters on 4 hyperscalers — a network-intelligence platform living in 15 million homes.
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NOW — THE AI SHIFT
IN PROGRESS
AN-4 AUTONOMY
Re-tooling engineering around AI-run operations — autonomous networks, digital twins, agentic ops.
SELECTED WORK
WORK
Zero cloud footprint to 45 clusters on 4 hyperscalers serving 15 million homes — the platform and the global org behind it, built from scratch. Then made it efficient: re-architected for cost, FinOps discipline on a multi-million-dollar budget, direct MongoDB & Redis Enterprise agreements, negotiated rates with Google and Oracle.
ORCHESTRATOR · CORTEX · PKI — DESIGNED & BUILT FROM ZERO axon-networks.comIoT pioneers — intelligent lighting and home automation.
greenwavesystems.comBuilding the foundation of global digital connectivity.
cisco.comPEER REVIEW
What colleagues say
“Directly responsible for all customer environments… leads a cross-functional team… establishing technology roadmaps, mentoring and career development.”
“If I were ever to be in a position to build an IT department from the ground up, Vito would definitely be one of the first I would call.”
“He helped the company grow from single digits to 80-plus folks… Vito was there, and ready, and got it done. I would hire him in a heartbeat.”
“The job got done, and it got done well. I'm actually a little scared to know how much MORE skilled he is today.”
- TM FORUM CATALYST — CONTRIBUTOR
- WRITES ON AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS ↗
- OPEN-SOURCE CONTRIBUTOR — COMFYUI ECOSYSTEM
- PATENT CONTRIBUTOR — IOT & SMART LIGHTING