Alessio Caiazza
Senior Staff Software Engineer at GitLab
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessio Caiazza is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building backend systems, DevOps tooling, and embedded/IoT components, currently driving delivery and releases at GitLab. He combines deep Rails and infrastructure expertise—contributing to GitLab CE and Omnibus with work spanning user model improvements, deployment scripts, TLS in chrooted environments, Gitaly restarts and Grafana metrics—with hands-on DevOps and systemd/Tor improvements for projects like Raspiblitz. Based in Florence, he has a strong track record in microservices and infrastructure-as-code from roles at Chorally and as a solutions architect for EU smart-factory research. Alessio’s unusual cross-domain background includes embedded firmware and emulator work for OpenRTX and hobbyist-focused projects like Cloudlog, giving him a rare fluency across backend, ops and embedded stacks. He’s known for shipping reliable releases on distributed teams and for pragmatic improvements that make large codebases safer and easier to operate.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
105/110, Computer engineering, 105/110, Computer engineering at Università degli Studi di Firenze98, Perito informatico, 98, Perito informatico at ITIS A. Meucci
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Github Skills (61)
database-migrations10
ruby-rails10
docker10
sdl10
glog10
model-driven10
gcloud10
firmware10
rspec10
webradio10
fm-radio10
bash10
rails10
linux10
c1110
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
May 2017 - Apr 2022
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:190 commits, 7 pushes, 4 tags in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alessio's commits primarily focus on back-end development, particularly within the context of GitLab's codebase. The contributions involve modifying and extending the `User` model, which include database schema changes through migrations, and updates to user-related functionalities, such as email handling, notification settings and GPG key synchronization. Moreover, the user demonstrates proficiency in testing by modifying existing test cases related to user models.
gitlab-cerubygitlabrails
gitlabhq/omnibus-gitlab
Mar 2018 - Jun 2022
GitLab Omnibus Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:42 commits, 8 pushes, 3 tags in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alessio primarily contributed to the GitLab Omnibus project by modifying configuration and deployment scripts. Their commits focused on enhancing GitLab Pages functionality by incorporating the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable for secure TLS connections within chroot environments. They also worked on improvements related to Gitaly, implementing a graceful restart wrapper, and configuring environment variables. Further contributions were made to the Grafana monitoring setup, including the generation of Grafana metrics and supporting authentication configurations.
gitlab-omnibus
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