Francesco Pantano
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Pantano is a Senior Software Engineer based in Milan with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently contributing at Red Hat. He specializes in GNU/Linux systems, Ceph storage and OpenStack/Openshift deployment tooling, often working at the intersection of DevOps and system architecture. Francesco has driven meaningful shifts in production deployment strategies—refactoring Ceph deployments from ceph-ansible to cephadm—and improved CI/CD and monitoring integrations (Grafana/Prometheus/Alertmanager) for large open-source projects. His work spans release automation, validation tooling and bug-driven hardening, showing a pragmatic focus on reliability and operability in distributed systems. He graduated summa cum laude in Computer Engineering from Università di Catania, bringing both deep academic training and hands-on open-source impact.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at Università di Catania
Italian, English
Github Skills (29)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
scripting10
architecture10
grafana10
dockers10
cicd10
system10
automation10
script10
infrastructure10
openstack10
openshift10
prometheus10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/tripleo-heat-templates
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
RETIRED, Heat templates for deploying OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:185 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying validation scripts and deployment configurations related to Ceph within the OpenStack environment. They added validations and services, specifically around Ceph, including the Ceph dashboard and ingress, and refactored the tooling to deploy Ceph using `cephadm`. The user's work includes removing legacy deployment configurations and references to ceph-ansible, and shifting the deployment strategy toward `cephadm`. Their efforts directly impact the project's architecture and deployment procedures.
openstack
ceph/ceph-ansible
Feb 2019 - May 2022
Ansible playbooks to deploy Ceph, the distributed filesystem.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 52 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Francesco's contributions center on enhancing the Ceph Ansible deployment playbooks, focusing on the integration and configuration of monitoring and dashboard components. They addressed bugs related to exposed information and implemented changes to Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager configurations, adding features like a dedicated instance for dashboard components. Furthermore, they improved service units and adjusted settings to improve their integration with TripleO and HA models, all while addressing related bug reports.
ansiblecephdistributed-file-systempython
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