Diego Iaconelli

Curriculum Vitae
Nov 2023 – Present

Anthropic

Remote
Member of Technical Staff, CPE

Platform engineering for the macOS and mobile fleet — the tooling, automation and policy that keep several thousand endpoints secure and current without getting in people's way, taken from a blank document to production and on to a proper handover.

  • Designed, built and shipped the internal package management and code-signing/notarisation pipelines now used across the fleet, and later made the call to sunset one of them in favour of a simpler upstream approach.
  • Led the migration of the Mac estate to a new device management platform, including the integration layer between identity and device state.
  • Owner of a self-service device health programme, giving staff plain-English visibility of their own security posture with remediation they can action themselves rather than raising a ticket.
  • Ran vendor contract reviews, renewals and non-renewals, including one that materially reduced spend.
  • Delivered a multi-floor office network and cabling build-out end to end, from legal consents through to commissioning.
  • Author of the team charter and technical design documentation; run internal workshops and review colleagues' designs and code.
  • Interviewer and calibrator on the company's culture interview — over 100 scored interviews since early 2025, some twenty new interviewers trained through paired and reverse-shadowed sessions, and written analysis on assessment quality used internally.
Jul 2021 – Jul 2023

GitHub

Remote
Regional IT Operations and Engineering Manager – EMEA

Bootstrapped the EMEA support function and moved it from a reactive model to preemptive, TDD-based maintenance. Hired the regional team, and contributed to IT and Security policy.

  • Delivered Infrastructure as Code via Terraform for IAM, and led the Zero Trust deployment for Okta SSO and SaaS tooling across EMEA.
  • Drove Endpoint Management for the region, with testing and code review alongside Engineering and Security, and automated enrolment via Intune and Jamf.
  • Led Google Workspace offboarding automation for InfoSec, improving the joiner/mover/leaver process and data retention adherence with eDiscovery and audit posture.
Oct 2020 – Jun 2021

VMware Tanzu

London, United Kingdom
Senior IT Engineering Manager – Northern EMEA

Ran IT infrastructure and support operations for Northern EMEA, and set the regional technology roadmap.

  • Re-organised the EMEA support team after the acquisition and integration of 3K new staff, returning $3M+ in annual OpEx savings and more favourable vendor contracts.
  • Built certificate-based authentication for Meraki wireless across EMEA.

Pivotal Software

London, United Kingdom
Sep 2017 – Sep 2020
Senior IT Manager – EMEA
Nov 2013 – Sep 2017
EMEA IT Lead

Directed IT strategy and operations across the EMEA region, with responsibility for vendor negotiation and the regional build-out.

  • Grew EMEA operations from 20 staff to 1K+, building out the local support team and taking the region from under-serviced to the highest support ratio in the company.
  • Delivered multimillion-pound office locations across EMEA — London, Berlin, Dublin, Paris and Tel Aviv — with their IT and security services.
  • Achieved Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation for the UK entity, enabling the company to win business with the MoD and NHS Digital.
  • Built an inclusive recruiting process for the region that was adopted enterprise-wide.
Nov 2007 – Oct 2013

Apple Inc.

London, United Kingdom
IS&T Champion, New Store Openings

Client platform engineering: macOS and iOS fleet management, device posture and compliance, software packaging and distribution, code-signing and notarisation, and the integration between identity and device state. Jamf, Intune and Kandji, with automation in Python.

Network and systems infrastructure underneath it: wired and wireless topologies, VPN services, data warehousing, and backup and disaster recovery.

I contribute to open source through the Mac Admins Foundation and Mac Admins Open Source, maintain a plethora of open source MDM and adjacent tooling, and run personal lab and home infrastructure — backup, replication and web services.

I advocate for accessible technology and its intersection with the human sciences and the arts, and support the SDF Public Access UNIX System.

2005

University of Kent

Canterbury, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Science, Physical & Biological Anthropology
Certified

Apple Inc.

ACMTACSPACTC
Languages
English (Native) & Italian (Native)
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