Federico Ceratto
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Debian
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolFederico Ceratto is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 17 years of experience building and operating large-scale, secure cloud infrastructure, currently at Wikimedia Foundation and a long-time Debian Developer. His background spans Amazon-grade distributed systems, DNS/load balancing, Kubernetes and OpenStack management, plus hands-on incident response and vulnerability management. He combines systems programming chops in Python and Rust with packaging and maintenance across Debian for projects from Netdata to Nim. Federico has contributed to well-known open-source projects—improving docs and code quality in the Nim compiler and enhancing Python CLIs and i3status modules—demonstrating pragmatic attention to maintainability and user experience. Based in Rome, he brings a research-minded approach from work at OONI on global network censorship measurement, blending operational reliability with privacy-aware infrastructure design. Colleagues value both his deep technical breadth and his habit of migrating and modernizing legacy toolchains to more sustainable platforms.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Free Open Source Software Technology, Master Free Open Source Software Technology at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaElectrical Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
English, Italian
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Github Skills (30)
nim-lang10
py10
python10
package-development10
plugin-development10
command-line-interface10
stat10
lang10
slstatus10
command-line10
drupal-module10
i310
cli10
scripting9
setuptools9
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
nim-lang/Nim
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 125 commits, 151 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Federico primarily fixed typos and improved the code's readability. They addressed several instances of incorrect wording in the documentation and corrected errors in code examples. Their contributions span multiple files within the repository, specifically addressing issues related to collections, system, string utilities, and database wrappers. The user’s work demonstrates a focus on code quality and attention to detail.
pythonnim-langelegancecompilerprogramming-language
python-cmd2/cmd2
Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
cmd2 - quickly build feature-rich and user-friendly interactive command line applications in Python
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 9 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Federico contributed to the Python-based command-line application by adding support for multiple Python versions. They updated the project's metadata in `setup.py` to reflect the supported Python versions and made minor code cleanup. The user also updated the `README.rst` file by adding and updating project badges, as well as the documentation with a tutorial link. Furthermore, the user updated and released a new version of the project by removing the distutils module and adding support for Python 3 input.
pythonfeature-richdeveloper-toolsargument-parsingshell
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