Enrico Candino
Principal Software Engineer at SUSE
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolEnrico Candino is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, resilient systems in Go and Kubernetes, currently driving architecture and delivery at SUSE from Rome. He blends Domain-Driven Design with pragmatic infrastructure work, focusing on reliable backends and scalable token and authentication systems—experience underscored by contributions to Rancher (RBAC, AzureAD, LDAP and token management). An active community builder as organizer of Golang Roma, he also contributes full-stack improvements to tooling like grafonnet-lib, improving Grafana panels and UX. A self-described "DadOps" and wannabe woodworker, Enrico pairs deep technical craftsmanship with hands-on mentoring and a taste for practical, well-engineered solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Università degli studi Roma TRE
Italian, English
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Github Skills (34)
rbac10
json10
kubernetes10
dashboard10
testing10
rancher10
grafana10
java10
go10
android10
jsonnet10
kubernetes-pods10
annotations9
azuread9
ldap9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:132 reviews, 33 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Enrico primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the Rancher platform. Their work involved refactoring code related to RBAC, fixing bugs, and implementing features related to AzureAD authentication. They also contributed to LDAP integration, cleaning up and centralizing LDAP search requests. Additionally, the user was involved in token management, including token cleanup tests and removing password setting for external users.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
grafana/grafonnet-lib
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Jsonnet library for generating Grafana dashboard files.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Enrico primarily contributed to the `grafonnet-lib` repository by adding and modifying features related to Grafana graph and heatmap panels. Their work involved implementing links within graph panels, integrating new functionalities, and updating tests for consistency. Further, they addressed formatting issues and introduced the `hideZeroBuckets` option within heatmap panels, demonstrating a focus on both user interface elements and panel configuration within the Grafana environment.
grafanajsonnetdashboardgrafana-dashboardmonitoring
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