Andrea Tartaglia is a Senior Lead in Automation Engineering with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and operating Linux-first infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code, specializing in Ansible, Python, and SSH-based automation. Now based in Italy and currently leading automation at S&P Global, he has progressed from systems administration and consulting roles across finance and telecom to senior leadership in cloud and DevOps. A committed Ansible contributor, he improved SSH configurability and Python 3 compatibility in the flagship ansible/ansible project, reflecting deep practical knowledge of orchestration internals. He prefers mainly remote roles and brings a pragmatic blend of coding, systems hardening, and operational pragmatism that consistently reduces toil at scale.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated Information Technology, Graduated Information Technology at Istituto Tecnico Industriale Vasto
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:51 commits, 59 PRs, 287 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the Ansible project by adding and modifying configuration options related to SSH connections. They introduced functionality to customize the SSH executable path and make SSH-related variables accessible. The user also added documentation and configuration options for the `ssh_executable` and `control_path_dir` settings, improving the usability and configurability of the Ansible platform. Additionally, they addressed issues related to file paths and improved the project's compatibility with Python 3 by updating deprecated syntax.
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Andrea Tartaglia - Senior Lead - Automation Engineering