Francesco Gualazzi is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, infrastructure-aware systems from on-prem datacenters to cloud-native and SaaS platforms. He has driven observability and profiling work at Elastic—contributing to Universal Profiling in Kibana and enhancing APM server profiling and metadata collection—and now focuses on GPU security for ML/AI workloads. Comfortable across back-end, DevOps and full-stack domains, he pairs deep systems-level curiosity with practical automation and deployment skills. His background includes site reliability and performance tuning at scale, plus a knack for improving testing and storage details that often go unnoticed. Based in Lombardy, Italy, he combines engineering rigor with a continual drive to explore new technologies and optimize for efficiency. He also brings a creative side to his work, with a long-standing interest in music.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dott. Ingegnere, Ingegneria gestionale/Gestione industriale, Dott. Ingegnere, Ingegneria gestionale/Gestione industriale at Politecnico di Milano
11gr2 Performance Tuning, Oracle 11gr2 Performance Tuning, 11gr2 Performance Tuning, Oracle 11gr2 Performance Tuning at Oracle university
Matematica e informatica, Matematica e informatica at Liceo Scientifico
Contributions:69 reviews, 10 commits, 61 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily contributed to the APM server, focusing on enhancing its profiling capabilities. They implemented metrics for profiling collection, including counters for events, stacktraces, and executables. Their work also involved adding host metadata collection, improving the storage of interpreter frame filenames, and addressing errors within the indexing process. Additionally, the user has made updates that improved testing infrastructure and addressed a run-length encoding bug.
Contributions:56 reviews, 13 commits, 26 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily contributed to the Universal Profiling features within the Kibana interface. Their work involved modifying UI components and updating deployment instructions related to the Universal Profiling agent, including changes to the "Add Data" page and the helm chart configurations. Furthermore, the user made changes to the Fleet package policies to configure permissions for Universal Profiling components, including the collector and symbolizer. The user also implemented the creation of package policies and corrected the configuration instructions for the setup.
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