Alessio Greggi
Software Engineer at SUSE
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessio Greggi is a software engineer based in Rome with 10 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native systems, particularly around Kubernetes and DevOps tooling. He has contributed notable features to high-profile open-source projects such as Kubescape—adding PDF reporting, host-scanner improvements and EKS policy support—and helped make Kubespray deployments more secure and production-ready. His background spans backend engineering, platform APIs, system utilities in Go/Python, and operational automation using Ansible, Docker/Podman and kubeadm. Alessio blends a security-minded foundation from offensive testing and system hardening with curiosity-driven engineering, often improving developer and operator workflows through robust scripting and testing. Now at SUSE after roles at ARMO and CLASTIX, he focuses on scalable, secure platform development while teaching and mentoring others on container runtime and Kubernetes best practices.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Cyber Academy Sicurezza/Information Assurance di computer e sistemi informatici, Cyber Academy Sicurezza/Information Assurance di computer e sistemi informatici at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio EmiliaCertificate of Achievement English Course, Certificate of Achievement English Course at Kaplan College of EdinburghLaurea triennale in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, Laurea triennale in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (33)
kubernetes10
scripting10
kubernetes-cluster10
bash10
velero10
security10
script10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
ansible10
sh10
ansible-galaxy10
shell10
devops10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
projectcapsule/capsule
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
Multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 18 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alessio focused on improving the deployment and management scripts for the Capsule project. Their contributions include adding error handling and exits to scripts, and enhancing the `velero-restore.sh` script for managing backup restoration, including adding functionality to specify tenant lists through the command line and fixing argument behavior. They also addressed documentation and usage improvements within the scripts. This work demonstrates a focus on operational efficiency and automation within the Kubernetes environment.
policytenantmulti-tenant-operatorcert-managernamespaces
kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alessio primarily contributed to the configuration and hardening of the Kubernetes cluster deployment. Their work focused on enhancing the `kubeadm-config` configuration, adding support for features like `EventRateLimit` admission plugins and `service-account-lookup`. They also implemented options for `kubelet` systemd service hardening and configuring feature gates across various Kubernetes components. These changes indicate a focus on improving cluster security and manageability.
bare-metalkubesprayhelmproduction-readyansible
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