Andrea Spadaccini
Principal Software Engineer - SRE at Microsoft
Catania, Sicily, Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Spadaccini is a Principal Software Engineer and SRE with 19 years of experience building and running large-scale, stateful distributed systems for Google and Microsoft, currently leading cross-Azure reliability initiatives from Catania, Sicily. He combines hands-on expertise in observability, SLO/SLI design, incident response and data integrity with technical leadership—creating and curating the SRE Technical Leads role and mentoring TLs across global teams. His background spans mission-critical control planes like Azure Resource Manager and data-plane connectivity for Azure SQL, plus prior responsibility for Google Ads infrastructure and Cloud Storage reliability. An active open-source maintainer and PhD, he developed and continues to lead the EduMIPS64 MIPS64 simulator and contributed to Ganeti VM cluster tooling, evidencing a long-standing commitment to tooling and education. Known for pragmatism under pressure, he blends deep systems engineering with a knack for translating reliability goals into measurable practices and scalable automation.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at University of CataniaMono/multi-modal biometric authentication, Mono/multi-modal biometric authentication at 6th IEEE Int.l Summer School on Advanced Studies on BiometricsMaturità scientifica, English, Latin, scientific subjects, general knowledge, Maturità scientifica, English, Latin, scientific subjects, general knowledge at Liceo Scientifico Principe Umberto di SavoiaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer engineering at Università di Catania
English, Italian
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Github contributions (5)
ganeti/ganeti
Jul 2011 - Jan 2012
Ganeti is a virtual machine cluster management tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other open source software.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:131 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to improving the Ganeti cluster management tool by fixing documentation issues, enhancing code consistency, and implementing new features. They addressed option name discrepancies and typos in the documentation. The user also added essential features, such as implementing basic SPICE support for virtual machines and enhancing the gnt-cluster command line interface. Furthermore, they made adjustments to the master IP configuration and migration processes for better functionality.
pythoncluster-managementvirtualizationon-topmanagement-tool
microsoft/PowerShell-FeatureFlags
May 2019 - Jul 2022
PowerShell module containing a Feature Flags implementation based on a local config file.
Contributions:2 releases, 103 commits, 67 PRs in 3 years 1 month
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