Andrea Scarpino
Senior Platform Engineer
Greater Trento Metropolitan Area Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Scarpino is a Senior Platform Engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently shaping resilient Kubernetes deployments, Terraform/Ansible provisioning, and security-focused practices at SpazioDati. A long-time FLOSS advocate and former Arch Linux and KDE contributor, he combines deep system-level knowledge (from C++/QML display manager fixes to Go SDK and Terraform provider contributions) with pragmatic DevOps automation for both Linux and Windows environments. He’s the go-to troubleshooter who enjoys breaking things to learn how to fix them, driving postmortems and DRY tooling to prevent recurrence. Outside of work he balances technical craftsmanship with woodworking and DIY, reflecting a practical, maker-oriented approach to engineering and problem solving.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technologies for Software Production, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technologies for Software Production at Università degli Studi di BariIstituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "E. Fermi" Lecce
English, Italian, German
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Github Skills (39)
c-language10
gitlab-api10
apidoc10
windows10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
terraformer10
gitlab10
automation10
go10
api10
sdk10
ansible10
powershell10
ansible-galaxy10
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/terraform-provider-gitlab
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Terraform GitLab Provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the GitLab Terraform provider's back-end functionality. They added a new data source for group membership, including the ability to filter members by access level. Several commits focused on enhancing the user resource with new features, such as the `note` field and the ability to modify the user's email. Additionally, they made updates to the documentation and test cases within the repository.
terraform-providerprovidergitlabterraform
sddm/sddm
Mar 2013 - Feb 2015
QML based X11 and Wayland display manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily focused on improving the SDDM display manager's stability and functionality through bug fixes and code optimization. They addressed warnings related to signal handling and socket ownership, which indicates an understanding of system-level programming and process management. Furthermore, they made improvements to the Italian language translation and properties within the QML files. These commits demonstrate a focus on quality assurance, user experience, and code maintainability.
qmlwaylanddisplay-managerx11linux
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