Andrea Spagnolo is a Senior Systems Engineer and DevOps professional with 11 years of experience designing and operating Unix-heavy infrastructure across Linux, Solaris and HP-UX environments. He has deep expertise in SAN storage (EMC, NetApp), clustering (Heartbeat, DRBD), LAMP platforms and automation with Bash, Ruby, Python and Perl, and has progressed through roles at Red Hat and VMware to a senior Staff Solutions Architect level before his current position. Andrea combines hands-on troubleshooting instincts with architecture-level thinking, thriving on complex problem-solving and reliability engineering. He is an active open-source contributor—enhancing CherryPy’s logging with RFC3339 timestamps and UUIDv4 request IDs while improving code quality and tests—showing attention to observability and maintainability. Based in Nerviano, Italy, he pairs enterprise-scale field experience with practical scripting and systems design. Colleagues rely on him for clear root-cause analysis and pragmatic, production-safe solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
60/100 Informatic, 60/100 Informatic at Liceo Scientifico
CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework. https://cherrypy.dev
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 16 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily focused on enhancing the logging functionality of the CherryPy framework. They introduced new features like RFC3339 UTC format timestamps and UUIDv4 generation for requests. Furthermore, the user addressed code quality issues, including fixing double-quoted strings and Flake8 compliance, in addition to improving and adding tests to validate the changes.
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Andrea Spagnolo - Senior Systems Engineer DevOps at Sibill