Francesco Vollero
Manager EMEA Specialist Solution Architects - OpenShift at The Apache Software Foundation
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolFrancesco Vollero is a seasoned cloud and infrastructure leader with 15+ years’ experience, currently managing the EMEA Specialist Solution Architects for OpenShift at Red Hat. He blends deep hands-on engineering—contributing to OpenStack Packstack and Puppet—with strategic pre-sales leadership, driving PoCs, workshops and customer adoption across AppDev, DevOps, GitOps and CNV domains. Known for translating complex technical capabilities into compelling business value, he partners closely with sales, product and engineering to shape solutions that increase operational efficiency and ROI. His background supporting NFV and telco transformations gives him rare expertise at the intersection of cloud-native and carrier-grade infrastructure. A long-time open-source advocate and Apache committer who also founded HITBYTES, he brings both entrepreneurial drive and community-driven craftsmanship to large-scale transformations. Based in Milan, he combines system-architecture depth with practical automation experience that speeds customers from pilot to production.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Engineering, B.Sc, Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di FirenzeLiceo Scientifico
Italian, Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Czech, Hebrew
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Github Skills (17)
puppeteer10
puppet10
configuration-management10
automation10
infrastructure10
openstack10
automations10
firewall9
swift8
vmware8
rack6
ruby-on-rails6
sinatra6
apache-flex6
python6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-openstack/packstack
Jul 2013 - May 2014
Install utility to deploy OpenStack on multiple hosts. This is the GitHub mirror for https://opendev.org/x/packstack.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:32 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily focused on configuring and modifying the Packstack installer for OpenStack. They made changes to various configuration files, including those related to networking, firewall rules, and enabling/disabling OpenStack services. Their contributions involved integrating new features like VMware vCenter support and swift backup, suggesting a focus on infrastructure automation and integration with different OpenStack components and external systems. They also addressed bugs, updated templates, and added a version flag demonstrating proficiency in system architecture for the OpenStack deployment tool.
hostsansiblegithub-mirroropendevopenstack
razorinc/alexa_rust
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
Implements Rust-based Alexa Request/Response
Contributions:1 push, 4 branches in 7 months
rustalexa-requestrustlangackactix-web
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