Fabiano Fidêncio
Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolFabiano Fidêncio is a Senior Systems Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and hardening Linux and cloud-native infrastructure, currently based in Brno and focused on remote roles. He’s an active open-source maintainer and contributor across prominent projects like Kata Containers, CRI-O, cloud-hypervisor and virt-manager, driving integrations between lightweight VMs and container runtimes. At Intel and Red Hat he led CI, release and orchestration work that tied confidential compute, hypervisors and container runtimes into production-ready flows, and he’s now applying that expertise at NVIDIA. Known as a collaborative catalyst, he combines backend and DevOps skills to automate complex install and runtime workflows—recently adding unattended install frameworks and improving VM runtime resilience. He prefers multidisciplinary, ethical teams and continues to invest in upstream tooling that makes cloud and virtualization stacks easier to use.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (37)
libvirt10
kubernetes10
kvm10
docker10
back-end-development10
python10
qemu10
testing10
configuration-management10
bash10
c1110
dockers10
cicd10
c1710
occi10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/kata-containers
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:57 releases, 2545 reviews, 1177 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Fabiano contributed to the Kata Containers project by addressing multiple issues related to the QEMU and container runtime. Their work included fixing bugs, optimizing code, and implementing changes to improve performance. The user also focused on improving the system's resilience by handling errors related to the image build. They demonstrated a strong understanding of the kata-agent, QEMU, and container runtime, and expertise in the overall architecture and stability of the kata-containers stack.
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kata-containers/tests
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Kata Containers tests, CI, and metrics
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Build/Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build/Release EngineerContributions:33 releases, 653 reviews, 448 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Fabiano primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline and build processes for Kata Containers tests. Their contributions include enabling and configuring tests with different CRI runtimes (CRI-O, containerd) and hypervisors (QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor, Firecracker). They addressed dependency issues, updated build scripts, and simplified the installation and configuration of CRI-O and other tools. Furthermore, they improved the test environment by updating dependencies and integrating new features to ensure more comprehensive testing coverage.
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