Alice Frosi
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlice Frosi is a Principal Software Engineer based in Germany with nine years of experience building Linux, container, virtualization, and cloud-native systems. At Red Hat and previously IBM, she has focused on backend and DevOps work for Kubernetes virtualization projects, contributing substantive changes to kubevirt and the containerized-data-importer—including refactoring nbdkit usage and migrating to official libnbd bindings to simplify build and import workflows. She specializes in storage and volume features (SCSI persistent reservations, volume migration and hotplugging) and pairs implementation work with tests and documentation to drive production-quality features. Comfortable in international teams, she brings a hands-on open source mindset to complex infrastructure problems. Outside engineering she sketches and learns new technologies, reflecting a creative curiosity that informs pragmatic, well-documented solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Ingegneria informatica, Bachelor's degree Ingegneria informatica at Politecnico di MilanoMaster of Science - MS Information technology, Master of Science - MS Information technology at University of Stuttgart
English, French, Italian, German
Github Skills (16)
testing10
dependency-management10
storage10
kubernetes10
go10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
scsi10
dockers9
cicd9
devops9
plugin9
kvm9
docker9
vmware8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/kubevirt
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1234 reviews, 84 commits, 161 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alice Frosi's contributions focused on enhancing the virtualization features within the Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime (kubevirt/kubevirt) repository, specifically around the implementation of SCSI persistent reservations. Her work involved the addition and refinement of features related to volume migration, hotplugging volumes, and the associated testing. Moreover, she also added support to enable a new feature gate for the persistent reservation features. The updates include improvements in the code, unit tests, and functional tests, including for the device plugin. The user made changes across both code and documentation, including the related tests to improve the code quality.
kubernetesvirtual-machinevirtualizationlibvirtvms
kubevirt/containerized-data-importer
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Data Import Service for kubernetes, designed with kubevirt in mind.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alice made several commits focused on updating dependencies and build processes for the project, including migrating to Fedora 33 and updating builder images. They refactored the nbdkit usage, unifying its application for both http and vddk importers, leading to a more streamlined and maintainable codebase. Additionally, the user contributed to the transition to using the official libnbd go bindings. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the build process, dependency management, and underlying infrastructure.
kubernetes
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