Adriano Pezzuto is Co-Founder and CEO of Clastix, an Italy-based infrastructure software company building enterprise-grade Kubernetes management platforms for AI and cloud-scale operations.

With over two decades in the IT industry, Adriano held roles at Cisco, Siemens, and Datera, and earned an executive education credential from MIP Politecnico di Milano.

Adriano co-created Capsule and Kamaji, two widely adopted open-source Kubernetes projects that redefined multi-tenancy and control plane efficiency at scale.

Clastix raised a 2.9M euro Seed round led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from Mistral and Vertis SGR, and counts NVIDIA, Fastweb, and Mistral among its production customers.

Clastix's kMetal platform reached general availability in 2026 and is deployed by infrastructure teams across AI labs, telecoms, cloud services, and the public sector in Europe and North America.