Alessandro Pilotti
Founder & CEO at Cloudbase Solutions
Timiș, Romania
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Top SchoolAlessandro Pilotti is the founder and CEO of Cloudbase Solutions, a Timisoara-based company specializing in Windows interoperability for cloud and Kubernetes ecosystems. With 13+ years of hands-on experience in OpenStack, Hyper-V, and Windows drivers, he leads development of projects such as Cloudbase-Init, Open vSwitch for Windows and Ceph on Windows while maintaining deep involvement in upstream OpenStack Nova, Neutron and Cinder. He combines systems engineering and DevOps expertise—authoring image automation scripts, PowerShell tooling, and Hyper-V plugins—with product leadership that has kept Cloudbase at the intersection of Windows and open-source cloud platforms. An active open-source contributor, Alessandro bridges cross-platform integration challenges that most cloud vendors avoid, and he recently augmented his technical foundation with an MRes in Bioinformatics, reflecting a curiosity for interdisciplinary problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of BolognaAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im BreisgauMaster of Research - MRes, Bioinformatics, Distinction, Master of Research - MRes, Bioinformatics, Distinction at Birkbeck, University of London
English, German, Italian, Romanian
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Github Skills (52)
c-language10
volumes10
admin10
hyper-v10
back-end-development10
python10
scripting10
wmi10
image10
plugin-development10
cinder10
windows10
windows-administration10
networking10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
FreeRDP/FreeRDP-WebConnect
Jan 2014 - Jul 2017
A gateway for seamless access to your RDP-Sessions in any HTML5-compliant browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:60 commits, 18 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the FreeRDP-WebConnect gateway. They implemented Nova token authentication via a RESTful API, integrating with OpenStack for console access. Further contributions included updating API URLs and adapting to changes in the Nova API. They also worked on fixing hardcoded paths and build scripts, indicating some involvement in the project's deployment and build process.
rdp
openstack/nova
Aug 2012 - Oct 2015
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on improving the Hyper-V driver within the OpenStack Nova compute project. Their work involved fixing Hyper-V-related issues in the code, particularly related to compatibility with older Windows versions and features like live migration. The user added and modified unit tests to ensure the driver's behavior with different operating system versions. They also refactored code to improve class subclassing.
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