Daniele Rolando
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniele Rolando is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building reliable, observable cloud services and developer platforms. He progressed from mobile and early backend roles to technical leadership at Yelp and senior engineering at Stripe, specializing in observability, platform reliability, and DevOps ergonomics. Daniele has hands-on experience improving PaaS tooling—contributing fixes to Yelp’s open-source paasta project to harden CLI local-run behavior and port handling—illustrating a focus on developer experience and operational robustness. He combines strong academic training from Politecnico di Torino, Télécom Paris and EURECOM with practical production engineering at scale. Colleagues find him equally comfortable mentoring teams and diving into subtle operational bugs that improve system stability.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Télécom ParisDiploma, Diploma at Liceo Scientifico TecnologicoWeb Engineering diploma Computer Engineering, Web Engineering diploma Computer Engineering at EURECOMMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (12)
command-line-interface10
kubernetes10
docker10
paas10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
python9
cli-tools9
automation9
automations9
infrastructure9
testing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Feb 2016 - Apr 2020
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniele's contributions primarily focused on improving the PaaS platform's operability and reliability. They addressed issues in the local-run functionality of the command-line interface, specifically correcting the handling of command arguments and quoting to ensure proper execution in Docker containers. Furthermore, the user enhanced the system's stability by fixing a deprecation warning and addressed the proper handling of port arguments.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
drolando/py_zipkin
Oct 2018 - Sep 2020
Provides utilities to facilitate the usage of Zipkin in Python
Contributions:97 pushes, 48 branches, 10 tags in 1 year 11 months
pythonzipkin
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