Filippo Giunchedi
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFilippo Giunchedi is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 19 years of experience building and operating large-scale GNU/Linux systems, currently shaping reliability and automation at the Wikimedia Foundation. He focuses on metrics, performance, testing and getting processes right—embodying a "work smarter, not harder" approach that prioritizes measurable outcomes. An experienced open-source contributor, he has improved key monitoring tooling like LibreNMS, Grafanalib and statsite, adding features around metric sanitation, dashboard components and high-fidelity sampling. His background spans SRE roles at Google (internship), systems engineering at Amazon and Gilt, long-term involvement with Debian packaging, and teaching/consultancy, giving him both deep operational instincts and a developer’s discipline. Based in Italy, he combines pragmatic engineering with a track record of shipping production-grade monitoring and observability improvements that reduce toil and surface actionable signals.
19 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Github Skills (25)
monitoring10
dashboard10
statsd10
python10
testing10
graphite10
grafana10
c1110
c1710
php10
snmp9
opencore9
snmpd9
coreos9
notificationmanager9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
weaveworks/grafanalib
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Python library for building Grafana dashboards
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Filippo primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `grafanalib` library, adding new panel types such as `Text` panels and incorporating new attributes to existing components like `Template` and `Legend`. Their work involved modifying core modules within `grafanalib/core.py` to support new features. These changes included adding new panel types and attributes, alongside corresponding updates to the CHANGELOG.rst file, enhancing the library's capabilities for Grafana dashboard creation.
python-librarypythongrafana-dashboardsdashboardsedsl
librenms/librenms
May 2015 - Mar 2021
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Filippo contributed to the LibrenMS project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to data collection and presentation. Their work involved sanitizing metric names and sending zero values for metrics via Graphite. They also added support for multiple Alertmanager URLs. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug concerning the Google Maps lat/lon query string.
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplphp
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