Giampaolo Rodola
Open Source Projects Author And Contributor at Open source author
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolGiampaolo Rodola is a senior Python consultant and software architect with nearly two decades of experience building scalable system, network and async applications. He is the creator of psutil—one of PyPI’s top packages with hundreds of millions of downloads per month—and the high-performance pyftpdlib FTP server, reflecting deep expertise in systems and I/O programming. His background spans embedded robotics at Neato to cloud and filesystem architectures for companies like SmartFile and Samsung, where he combined Python and low-level C++ components for production-grade devices and services. A long-time Python core contributor and test automation advocate, he frequently improves CPython’s test coverage and developer documentation. He favors simple, non-overengineered designs and brings a practical focus on reliability, observability and edge-case testing that comes from running libraries in real-world, high-throughput deployments. Based in Turin, Italy, he pairs open-source leadership with hands-on engineering across distributed systems, observability tooling and async networking.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Electrical engineering 
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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ftp
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Github Skills (44)
asynchronous10
unit-testing10
jython10
debug10
lib10
restructuredtext10
python10
async10
testing10
process-management10
kill10
unit-test10
concurrency10
documentation10
test-automation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
giampaolo/pyftpdlib
Jul 2007 - Dec 2022
Extremely fast and scalable Python FTP server library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 1344 commits, 112 PRs in 15 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Giampaolo primarily contributed to the pyftpdlib library by addressing bugs and implementing new features. Their work includes updating release dates, resolving a garbage collection issue related to active data transfer protocol instances, and adding tests. Furthermore, they implemented a command-line parser and added new features related to file size and time retrieval using the MDTM command.
scalableftpsasynchronouspythonftp-client
giampaolo/psutil
Dec 2015 - Jan 2023
Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:105 reviews, 376 commits, 814 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Giampaolo's contributions primarily involve developing, testing and maintaining the psutil Python library. They focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the library by implementing changes, adding tests and fixing bugs. Their work demonstrates expertise in Python and testing best practices, especially for handling error conditions and potential race conditions.
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