Daniele Zonca
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolDaniele Zonca is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat with eight years of professional software engineering experience and a master's in Computer Science from Università degli Studi di Milano. He combines deep back-end expertise in rule engines and cloud-native business automation (notably Drools and Kogito) with hands-on full‑stack work improving complex UI grids and persistence layers. At Red Hat he progressed through senior technical roles focused on API design, refactoring core components, and adding testable, production-ready features across large open-source projects. His contributions show a pattern of modernizing internal architectures—migrating to public APIs, reintroducing request output scopes, and implementing fluent builder APIs—while also addressing reliability via extensive test and QA work. Based in Milan, he balances low-level engine improvements with pragmatic UI and integration fixes, a combination that helps drive both developer productivity and user-facing stability.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Italian, English
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Github Skills (29)
api-design10
jbpm10
drools10
gwt10
ui-design10
dmn10
rule-engine10
java10
javas10
uid10
junit10
front-end-development10
quarkus10
spring-boot10
jtest10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-kie-kogito-runtimes
Apr 2018 - Feb 2022
Kogito Runtimes - Kogito is a cloud-native business automation technology for building cloud-ready business applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:997 reviews, 101 commits, 345 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniele contributed to the `apache/incubator-kie-kogito-runtimes` repository, focusing on enhancements related to Drools and RequestContext. Their work involved reintroducing output scopes for requests, impacting the `kie-api` and `drools-core` modules. Furthermore, the user implemented and tested fluent methods for rule units, which included refactoring, adding test coverage, and code optimization.
kogitoknativebusiness-automationrule-enginedrools
apache/incubator-kie-drools
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Drools is a rule engine, DMN engine and complex event processing (CEP) engine for Java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:602 reviews, 66 commits, 382 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniele primarily contributed to the Drools rule engine, focusing on enhancements to the request context and fluent API. They reintroduced output scopes for requests and added support for Rule Units within the simulation fluent API. The user also implemented several fluent builder classes and moved some commands and interfaces to the public API. Their work involved modifications to core Drools components, demonstrating a focus on rule engine functionality and API design.
droolsbusiness-rulesdmn-engineevent-processingcomplex-event-processing
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