Federico Fossemo
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFederico Fossemo is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bologna with a decade of experience building cloud-native back-end systems and improving DevOps tooling. He has been deeply involved in KubeVirt at Red Hat, helping virtual machines run reliably on Kubernetes and strengthening test and deployment infrastructure. His open-source contributions include stabilizing e2e tests and enhancing deployment pipelines for kubevirt and adding practical features like initial-volume control to the popular librespot Spotify client. Comfortable across infrastructure and backend domains, he combines hands-on coding with a focus on test reliability and CI/CD robustness. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, often tackling flakiness and edge cases that others leave unnoticed.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaUniversità degli Studi dell'Aquila
Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
e2e-testing10
apidoc10
e2e-test10
connect10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
popt10
rust10
spotify10
pot10
testing9
audio-processing9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/kubevirt
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2126 reviews, 82 commits, 326 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Federico primarily contributed to the back-end development, with a focus on enhancing the functionality and stability of Kubernetes virtualization API and runtime. Their work involved fixing e2e tests, addressing flakiness, and improving the overall testing infrastructure. Further, they worked on infrastructure by addressing code problems and added code functionality on some deployment and building phases.
kubernetesvirtual-machinevirtualizationlibvirtvms
librespot-org/librespot
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Open Source Spotify client library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 1 comment in 12 days
Contributions summary:Federico primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the librespot client library. Their commits introduced the ability to set an initial volume upon connection and validated the input. They modified the configuration and the Spirc task to support this new functionality. Additionally, the user incorporated changes from another contributor to improve shuffle and track handling.
spotifylibrespotrustspotify-connect
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