Davide Salerno
Senior Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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RockstarDavide Salerno is a Senior Software Engineer based in Milan with 14 years of experience building cloud-native and enterprise systems, currently focused on OpenShift networking, ingress and DNS at Red Hat. He combines deep hands‑on skills in Go and Kubernetes controller patterns with a background in architecture for financial systems, having designed low‑latency pricing and settlement platforms for major banks. Davide contributes to upstream open source projects (Gateway API, Kogito, Apache SonataFlow), bridging product requirements and community-driven implementations. He’s comfortable across the full delivery lifecycle—requirements, design, coding, CI/testing, and incident response—while mentoring cross-functional teams and supporting customer escalations. Notably, he moves between high-regulation finance projects and open-source cloud networking, bringing a pragmatic approach to scalable, observable systems.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Italian
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Github Skills (139)
docker-run10
testing10
metadata10
automation10
operator10
catalog10
kubernetes-operator10
api10
golang10
kubernetes10
deploying10
openshift10
docker10
container-cop10
lifecycle10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
davidesalerno/kogito-serverless-operator
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Kubernetes operator for Kogito Serverless Workflow
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 235 pushes in 2 years 5 months
serverlessoperatorkogitokubernetesserverless-workflow
davidesalerno/dummy-service
May 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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