Welcome to Matteo Franzil's website!
Matteo Franzil is a PhD Student in Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento, with a grant funded by Fondazione Bruno Kessler. His research lies at the intersection of cloud-native systems, network observability, and security, with a focus on scalable monitoring for cloud-to-edge environments.
His recent work studies how to make cloud and edge infrastructures more observable, secure, and easier to manage, with particular interest in Kubernetes, eBPF-based monitoring, context-aware audit analysis, and AI-assisted infrastructure workflows. He contributed to the European FLUIDOS project on cost- and energy-aware infrastructures in 2023–2024. In parallel, he teaches operating systems and cloud computing technologies at the University of Trento, with previous teaching experience in databases, programming, and probability.
In addition to his academic activities, Matteo is an avid photographer and traveler. He enjoys exploring new places and capturing moments through his camera lens. His photography mainly focuses on landscapes, nature, and street photography, often during his hikes and trips.
The paper From Source Code to Kubernetes Manifests: Guiding LLMs with Structured Metadata, written with Ulises Sosa and Domenico Siracusa, discussed at the 3rd IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Generative AI for Network Management (GAIN 2026), is now available on IEEE Xplore. In this work, we show how repositories can be parsed and analyzed to provide LLMs with a better starting point for generating Kubernetes manifests.
The paper Thou Shall Not Pass: Gatekeeping Outbound TLS Connections, written with Henrique Becker Brum, Riccardo Germenia, Salvatore Manfredi, Domenico Siracusa, and Luis Knob, is now available as a preprint on arXiv. It investigates runtime monitoring of TLS handshakes and the use of eBPF for enforcing their compliance with security guidelines.
Serving as Technical Session Chair at IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2026 for the session "Mathematical Modeling and Network Control: Modeling and Control under Communication Constraints".
The paper Sharpening Kubernetes Audit Logs with Context Awareness, written with Valentino Armani, Luis Knob, and Domenico Siracusa, has been published in Computer Networks and is now available below. It investigates the use of machine learning techniques to analyze and enrich Kubernetes audit logs.
Research theme: scalable monitoring, observability, and automation for cloud-to-edge environments, with a current emphasis on Kubernetes, eBPF, cloud security, and AI-assisted infrastructure management.
6 works, grouped by first publication year.
in Proceedings of the 2026 IFIP/IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2026), 3rd IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Generative AI for Network Management 2026 (GAIN 2026), DOI: 10.1109/NOMS69089.2026.11668116, download
Keywords: Kubernetes, Large Language Models
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preprint available on arXiv, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2605.31020
Keywords: TLS, network security, eBPF, network monitoring, compliance
Information: Rank: Unranked, Date of publication:
in Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2025.3641311, download
Keywords: Kubernetes, APIs, Denial-of-Service attacks, containerd
Information: Rank: Q1, Date of publication: , issue: 2026
in Computer Networks, DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111890, download
Keywords: Kubernetes, Machine Learning, Audit logs
Information: Rank: Q1, Date of publication: , issue: 2026
in Sustainability, DOI: 10.3390/su17146433
Keywords: Scheduling, energy efficiency, edge computing, cloud computing
Information: Rank: Q3, Date of publication:
in 1st Workshop on Operating Systems and Virtualization Security (OSVS 2024), DOI: 10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00086, download
Keywords: Sidecar proxies, end-to-end encryption, cloud native
Information: Conference dates: to , Rank: Unranked, Date of publication:
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Research experience, education, and teaching.
Technical profile and research infrastructure
Mar 2023 – ongoing
This is a selection of my recent photographic works.
In my free time, I enjoy photography, especially landscape and street photography.
I primarily shoot during my travels and hikes, with my trusty Sony Alpha 7 IV.
On franzilmedia.com, I regularly publish all new galleries (save for privacy-sensitive ones).
You can contact me for any kind of requests, from asssignments to copies of old photos.
