Federico Paolinelli
Senior Principal Software Engineer at public speaking
Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolFederico Paolinelli is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 16+ years building and leading reliable distributed systems, now focusing on Telco 5G networking at Red Hat from Tuscany. He designs and ships cloud-native networking components—authoring the VRF CNI plugin and maintaining MetalLB while contributing to OVN-Kubernetes, Gatekeeper mutation, SR-IOV operator and Kubernetes itself. His background includes a decade of mission-critical finance systems leadership at LIST SpA and a Summa cum Laude master’s in Software Engineering from the University of Pisa. Federico blends deep backend and DevOps expertise—CI/CD, test automation and e2e testing—with hands-on protocol work (BGP/FRR, SCTP) that surfaces in major OSS projects. He also maintains Athens (a Go module proxy) and routinely gives technical talks, reflecting a talent for explaining complex systems. Notably, his contributions often focus on hardening test suites and operator workflows, improving reliability across large cloud-native stacks.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree, Software Engineering, faculty of engineering, Master degree, Software Engineering, faculty of engineering at Università di Pisa
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Github Skills (54)
opa10
kubernetes10
gpo10
docker10
metallb10
admin10
sctp10
testing10
net10
cni10
bash10
proxy10
policies10
networking10
dockers10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gomods/athens
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
A Go module datastore and proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 14 PRs, 151 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Federico primarily focused on testing and implementing features related to the GCP storage backend for the `athens` Go module datastore and proxy. This involved creating mock implementations for testing, modifying existing code, and adding checks for resource closure. The user also contributed to implementing the catalog endpoint for various storage backends, including S3, GCP, and FS, which involved significant changes in the storage and retrieval logic. They also added filters for private repos.
dependenciesproxy-serverproxyhaikugo
ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
A robust Kubernetes networking platform
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:165 reviews, 53 commits, 39 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Federico primarily contributed to the e2e testing framework, specifically by updating API versions, adding tests for nodeport services, external IP services, and external gateways. Their work involved modifying existing test configurations and adding new test cases for inter-node connectivity and egress IP validation. Furthermore, the user added the implementation of BFD and extended the existing tests to include the same.
k8skubernetesovncnicni-plugin
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