Andrea Benini
Maintenance Release Coordination Engineer Linux
Greater Rimini Metropolitan Area Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Benini is a versatile systems and backend engineer with 11+ years of experience building and operating Linux and Unix infrastructures across enterprise and cloud environments. Currently a Maintenance Release Coordination Engineer at SUSE, he brings deep SRE/DevOps expertise from roles at Red Hat and Zucchetti, spanning OpenStack, Kubernetes, containerization, bare-metal virtualization and mission-critical backend services. Proficient in Go, Python, C/C++, Erlang and more, he combines low-level Unix knowledge (including AIX, Solaris, IRIX and even Plan9) with hands-on networking, VoIP/XMPP and real-time communications experience. He is passionate about AI/ML tooling applied to operations and has a long history of integrating embedded/RT systems into scalable cloud stacks. Based in the Greater Rimini area, Andrea is the sort of engineer who can both tune kernel-level systems and ship reliable distributed services while coordinating complex release processes.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Network administration with security skills, Network administration with security skills, Network administration with security skills, Network administration with security skills at Centro formazione professionale (CESVIP) [EU funds]Computer Science, Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna1992, Computer Science, 1992, Computer Science at ITIS Nullo Baldini (Computer Science Department)
English, Italian
Github Skills (148)
jitsi10
video-conferencing10
messaging10
python10
chat10
menu10
ejabberd10
matrix10
debian10
linux10
package-repository10
sip-server10
xmpp10
erlang10
sfu10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
andreabenini/ejabberd
Oct 2016 - Jul 2026
Robust, ubiquitous and massively scalable Jabber / XMPP Instant Messaging platform
Contributions:412 PRs, 221 pushes in 9 years 10 months
scalablediscourseerlangxmppzulip
andreabenini/bbolt
Apr 2019 - Feb 2026
An embedded key/value database for Go.
Contributions:56 PRs, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
golangdatabasekey-value-storeembeddedkey-value
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