Fabio Rapposelli
Chief Technology Officer at Satispay
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolFabio Rapposelli is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of hands-on experience turning container, virtualization, and storage innovations into enterprise-grade products. He helped pioneer container adoption at VMware—architecting PKS and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid—and founded VMware’s first open-source engineering team and Kubernetes SIG. Equally comfortable in code and culture, he has scaled globally distributed engineering organizations, mentored senior technologists, and led technical due diligence through multiple acquisitions and transitions. Active in open source, his contributions to high-profile projects like cluster-api-provider-vsphere, cloud-provider-vsphere, VIC, and docker/machine demonstrate deep expertise in cloud-provider integrations, CI/OVA automation, and infrastructure tooling. Based in Milan, he pairs a pragmatist’s focus on solving real customer problems with a habit of questioning assumptions that drives durable technical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "Blaise Pascal" Cesena, Italy
English, Italian
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Github Skills (32)
kubernetes10
vsphere10
container10
docker10
cloud-computing10
cloud-infrastructure10
vmware10
vmware-workstation10
containerization10
dockers10
vmware-tools10
cicd10
automation10
packer10
infrastructure10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/cloud-provider-vsphere
May 2018 - Apr 2020
Kubernetes Cloud Provider for vSphere https://cloud-provider-vsphere.sigs.k8s.io
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 14 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Fabio's contributions primarily involve the initial setup and development of the cloud provider for vSphere, a Kubernetes cloud provider. They implemented core functionalities like node discovery and instance type retrieval. Furthermore, they added the implementation for InstanceShutdownByProviderID. Their work also involved setting up the build and testing environment.
providercloud-providerskubernetesk8svmware
vmware/vic
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
vSphere Integrated Containers Engine is a container runtime for vSphere.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:110 commits, 88 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Fabio's contributions primarily focused on automating the build and deployment process for the vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) project. They introduced Packer scripts for building a Photon OS-based OVA and Vagrant box, including automated disk, network, and password setup. The user also integrated Harbor, a container registry, into the OVA build and addressed configuration issues. Additionally, the user made modifications to the systemd service files and network configurations.
vicvsphere-networksruntimevic-enginevirtualization
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