Fabio Locati
Senior Principal Architect at Red Hat
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolFabio Locati is a Senior Principal Architect at Red Hat with nearly two decades of enterprise IT experience focused on automation, Linux, and infrastructure. He is a prolific open source advocate and contributor—having improved usability and YAML consistency across core Ansible modules—and the author of five technical books with 90+ global talks under his belt. Fabio blends hands-on engineering with partner-facing solution strategy, having led cloud divisions, accelerated sales pipelines, and helped Fortune 500 banks adopt Ansible and OpenShift. He holds 30+ industry certifications (RHCA, AWS, GCP), serves on the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, and mentors the next generation of practitioners. Beyond technology, he champions ethical IT and sustainable ecosystems, bringing a philosopher’s background to complex technical and organizational challenges.
18 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of MilanExecutive Program - Financial Modeling, Executive Program - Financial Modeling at SDA Bocconi
Italian, English
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Github Skills (22)
python10
configuration-management10
yaml10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automation9
infrastructure-as-code9
automations9
system-administration9
network-automation8
cloud-computing7
networking7
packaging7
version-control7
android-studio6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Aug 2016 - Dec 2017
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 89 PRs, 67 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Fabio's contributions primarily involved modifications to configuration files and module examples within the Ansible project. They refactored and improved YAML formatting across various modules, including those related to cloud infrastructure, databases, and system administration. Their work also included conditional calls to the `main()` function within several modules, demonstrating an understanding of module structure and best practices. The changes touched modules related to network, cloud, and system, showing a broad scope across infrastructure automation.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
ansible/ansible-modules-extras
Aug 2015 - Dec 2016
Ansible extra modules - these modules ship with ansible
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:102 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Fabio primarily focused on updating example configurations within Ansible modules to use native YAML syntax. This involved modifying multiple files related to various Ansible modules across different domains like cloud, system, and network configurations. The user’s changes aimed to normalize examples and improve the code's readability and maintainability by transitioning to native YAML.
ansibleship
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