Emanuele Rocca
Principal Software Engineer at Debian
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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SeniorEmanuele Rocca is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience, based in the Berlin area, who blends deep systems and database administration expertise with hands-on software development in Python, Go and C. Currently at Arm and a long-time Debian developer, he contributes to packaging, QA and platform teams (including Xfce and Sparc), reflecting a strong commitment to free and open source software. He specializes in Linux, PostgreSQL, Debian, shell scripting and dynamic languages, and focuses on distributed systems, cloud-native architectures and modern web applications. An active open-source contributor, he has improved documentation and feature docs for high-profile projects like Apache Traffic Server, demonstrating attention to clarity and maintainability as well as code. Less obvious: he pairs low-level ops experience with language-level engineering, enabling pragmatic solutions that bridge system reliability and developer ergonomics.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
lua10
documentation10
yaml9
apache8
disk-cache7
memory-cache7
object-cache7
web-cache7
caching7
http6
proxy6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Apr 2018 - Oct 2021
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:22 commits, 13 PRs, 24 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Emanuele primarily focused on enhancing the documentation for the Apache Traffic Server project. Their contributions involved updating the admin guide, including fixes for typos and syntax errors. They updated the logging.yaml documentation to reflect the current YAML format and remove mentions of deprecated features. The user also added documentation for new features like SystemTap markers and the `get_maxage` function for Lua plugins, and clarified documentation regarding cache control and plugin configuration.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
wikimedia/operations-software-varnish-varnishkafka
Apr 2016 - Sep 2020
Varnish log collector with Apache Kafka integration. This is a mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/software/varnish/varnishkafka. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Contributions:10 commits in 4 years 6 months
apache-kafkakafka-integrationlog-collectorwikimedialogging
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