Gabriele Gerbino
Senior Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Catania, Sicily, Italy
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Top SchoolGabriele Gerbino is a Senior/Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building networked, distributed SaaS infrastructure and control planes, currently shaping Kong Konnect and maintaining decK. He combines deep expertise in Golang and Python with practical NetDevOps experience from Fastly and Network to Code, authoring dozens of NX-OS Ansible modules and adding drivers for Netmiko and NAPALM. Gabriele focuses on automating large-scale network operations and building resilient, driver-less/self-healing systems, bridging operator needs and platform engineering. An active open-source maintainer and contributor, his work on decK and network automation libraries reflects both production-grade system design and attention to operational drift detection. Based in Catania, he pairs telecoms engineering roots with hands-on cloud-native tooling across Kubernetes, Terraform, gRPC and CI/CD.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA, Computer Networks, CCNA, Computer Networks at Cisco Networking AcademyBS, Telecommunication Engineering, 110/110, BS, Telecommunication Engineering, 110/110 at Università di Catania
English, Italian
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Github Skills (31)
nxos10
network-configuration10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
cisco-ios10
netmiko10
go10
api10
driver10
declarative10
ansible10
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/deck
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
decK: Configuration management and drift detection for Kong
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 477 reviews, 141 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gabriele primarily worked on enhancing the functionality of the `kong/deck` repository, a tool for managing and deploying Kong Gateway configurations. Their commits included fixing bugs related to skipping consumers, adding support for skipping CA certificates, and correctly handling select tags during the dump operation. The user also contributed by adding new features such as the option to validate configurations using the Kong API.
cuelangkong-plugindecksyncdeclarative-config
ansible/ansible-modules-core
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Ansible modules - these modules ship with ansible
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 141 PRs, 57 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Gabriele contributed to the `ansible/ansible-modules-core` repository by developing and adding multiple NX-OS modules. Their contributions included creating modules for managing network configurations such as features, VLANs, VRFs, interfaces, and others. These modules were implemented using Python and incorporated features like data validation and interaction with NX-OS devices, demonstrating expertise in network automation and configuration management.
ansibleshipansible-modules
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