Davide Depau
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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RockstarDavide Depau is a pragmatic DevOps Engineer with 12 years’ experience building resilient infrastructure and shipping backend systems across startups and product teams in Milan and beyond. He blends deep GNU/Linux and FOSS expertise with hands-on DevOps, IaC and GitOps practice, having eradicated costly outages, doubled engineering productivity, and led cloud replacement and JIT compiler projects that delivered substantial performance gains. An active open-source contributor, Davide has improved notable projects like ffmpeg-python, Valetudo and revng, including extensible filter refactors and Viomi robot integrations, reflecting a talent for practical, low-level problem solving. Comfortable in emergencies, he remains calm under pressure and communicates clearly with stakeholders to restore service quickly. As a multicultural, LGBTQIA+ technologist who’s lived abroad, he brings both empathy and unconventional perspectives to team dynamics and product thinking. He thrives where infrastructure, embedded systems and cutting-edge AI intersect, able to move between mobile, backend and systems work with equal fluency.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
kotlin10
javascript10
c-language10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
llvm10
mqtt10
usb10
ffmpeg10
android-development10
java10
mqttnet10
android-library10
javas10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
etchdroid/etchdroid
Aug 2018 - Jun 2022
An application to write OS images to USB drives, on Android, no root required.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:15 releases, 4 reviews, 459 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Davide primarily focused on developing the Android application, as evidenced by the code changes. Their work involved cleaning up imports, implementing API writing functionality, addressing notification display issues on older Android versions, and implementing a solution to handle cases where the app previously crashed. Additionally, they contributed to the rebranding of the app and made adjustments to the UI and user flow, particularly around the image selection process and information confirmation.
androidusb-driveusbisognu-linux
kkroening/ffmpeg-python
May 2017 - Feb 2021
Python bindings for FFmpeg - with complex filtering support
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 39 commits, 26 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Davide primarily contributed to the development of the Python bindings for FFmpeg. Their work included adding new filters and options, enhancing existing functionalities, and improving the codebase's overall structure. They refactored and generalized filter-related code, making it more extensible. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to command execution and stream mapping within the project.
ffmpegpython-bindings
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