Francesco Canovai
Senior Software Development Engineer at EDB
Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolFrancesco Canovai is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud-native PostgreSQL operations, CI/CD automation, and Kubernetes operator testing. At EDB he leads and mentors teams delivering automated release pipelines and resilient deployments for CloudNativePG and BigAnimal, driving migrations from GitLab CI to GitHub Workflows and configuring Flux for production rollouts. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps skills (Go, Python, Bash) with a strong emphasis on testing, observability, and repeatable infrastructure using Terraform, Puppet, Ansible and Prometheus. An active contributor to the CloudNativePG project, he has improved test coverage and introduced robust E2E scenarios like rolling updates, fast failover and backups. Pragmatic about agile practices, he champions cross-functional teams owning services end-to-end and pairs engineering rigor with customer-facing support experience. Based in Tuscany, he balances engineering depth with off-hours pursuits like teaching karate, trekking nearby hills, and cooking.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Triennale, Informatica, 104, Laurea Triennale, Informatica, 104 at Università degli Studi di FirenzeLiceo Scientifico, 100, Liceo Scientifico, 100 at A.M.E. Agnoletti
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
e2e-test10
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
go10
postgresql10
devops10
e2e10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
database-management9
failover8
backup8
databases8
database8
cicd8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg
Mar 2020 - Jun 2022
CloudNativePG is a comprehensive platform designed to seamlessly manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments, covering the entire operational lifecycle from initial deployment to ongoing maintenance
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:131 reviews, 82 commits, 65 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Francesco's contributions focus on improving the cloudnative-pg project's code quality and test infrastructure. They fixed typos, applied linter suggestions, and refactored E2E tests. The user also added and tested new E2E features to improve quality, such as rolling updates, fast failover and backups, and increased test coverage. Additionally, the user worked on setting the project's environment variables.
operatorfailovercoversjson-loggingstreaming
cloudnative-pg/barman-cloud
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Barman Cloud Library for CloudNativePG
Contributions:40 reviews, 40 PRs, 42 pushes in 6 months
barman-cloudgolang
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