Fabio Erculiani
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFabio Erculiani is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and AI/ML infrastructure, currently focused on Google Cloud SRE and incident response in Zurich. He has led SRE teams and technical efforts across Google Cloud Streaming Analytics, AI/ML serving, and high-availability MySQL clusters, combining hands-on engineering with people management. An early open-source founder, he created and led Sabayon Linux and contributed core back-end work to projects like PackageKit, notably integrating the Entropy backend and enhancing package management workflows. Fabio blends systems-level expertise—from embedded and real-time servers to distributed cloud services—with practical automation, statistics, and AI/ML to improve reliability and customer experience. Colleagues describe him as a "get things done" engineer who still codes and ships critical infrastructure while guiding teams. His background as both a long-term open-source maintainer and a Google SRE gives him a rare perspective on end-to-end system resilience and operational tooling.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Università di TrentoIstituto Tecnico Industriale
Github Skills (6)
python10
back-end-development10
package-management10
api-design9
c178
c118
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PackageKit/PackageKit
Jan 2010 - Dec 2013
A D-BUS abstraction layer that allows the user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:157 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Fabio primarily contributed to the back-end implementation of the package management system, focusing on integrating the Entropy package manager. Their work involved porting code to the new API, completing various backend functions like search, file retrieval, and dependency resolution. The user also added support for several PackageKit features, including EULA handling and download packages, enhancing the functionality of the entropy backend.
secureapid-buslinuxbus
Sabayon/genkernel-next
Nov 2012 - Feb 2015
An improved and modern remake of Gentoo genkernel (in: udev, plymouth; out: cross compiler support)
Contributions:280 commits, 4 pushes, 4 tags in 2 years 3 months
udevimprovedgentooplymouthcompiler
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