Alessandro Garcia
Community Evangelist Senior Solutions Engineer (F5 NGINX Community Team)
Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolAlessandro Garcia is a Senior Solutions Engineer and Community Evangelist on the F5/NGINX community team with a decade of experience building and automating infrastructure, developer tools, and secure deployment pipelines. He is the primary author and maintainer of widely used OSS assets such as the official NGINX Ansible role and the unprivileged NGINX Docker image, and has driven best-practice guidance adopted across the NGINX GitHub organization. Comfortable at the intersection of DevOps, technical marketing, and community support, he designs reproducible demos and IaC (Packer, Terraform, Chef) for AWS, GCP and Azure while benchmarking API and gateway behaviors. Alessandro’s contributions regularly harden CI/CD and documentation workflows—fixing GitHub Actions, link checking, and build automation—to keep large public repositories reliable. Based in Alicante, Spain, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Science from UCL with a Bioengineering background, a mix that surfaces in pragmatic curiosity and cross-discipline problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School European Baccalaureate, High School European Baccalaureate at European School of AlicanteBachelor’s Degree Bioengineering, Bachelor’s Degree Bioengineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityBachelor’s Degree Bioengineering, Bachelor’s Degree Bioengineering at The University of SheffieldUniversity College London
English, Spanish, Italian, French, German
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Github Skills (40)
alpine-linux10
github-ci10
docker10
jinja210
scripting10
sphinx10
configuration-management10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
gcp10
terraformer10
automation10
script10
packer10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nginx/docker-nginx-unprivileged
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Unprivileged NGINX Dockerfiles
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 releases, 10 reviews, 100 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro's primary contribution focuses on enhancing the build and deployment process for Nginx Docker images. Their work involved automating the process of enabling IPv6 support within the Nginx configuration, by modifying entrypoint scripts. They also added enhancements to the entrypoint script functionality, including environment variable handling and code improvements. The user's commits show an effort to improve the efficiency and maintainability of the Docker image build process.
nginxunprivilegeddockerdebiandockerfiles
nginx/ansible-role-nginx
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Ansible role for installing NGINX
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 releases, 51 reviews, 352 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily contributed to the Ansible role for NGINX, focusing on templating and configuration. Their work included adding options to enable and configure features like the REST API, live dashboard, and WAF module. They also refactored template variables, improved the structure of configuration files, and implemented conditional checks to control the deployment of specific features, showing a focus on automation and configuration management.
nginxinstallingansibleansible-rolenginx-plus
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