Gianluca Borello
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGianluca Borello is a seasoned systems and data platform engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating high‑scale, low‑latency infrastructure across startups and large tech firms, now at OpenAI. He has deep kernel and systems-level expertise (notably contributions to the popular sysdig project improving eBPF/kernel probes and container troubleshooting tooling) and a strong track record leading teams delivering streaming and exabyte-scale security data platforms at Google Chronicle. Previously he architected core observability and monitoring platforms at Sysdig and Citadel Securities, combining modern cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, Kafka, ClickHouse) with performance-sensitive C/C++ systems work. Gianluca blends hands-on engineering—often shipping kernel patches and performance optimizations—with strategic leadership, product-facing customer work, and evangelism. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area with an academic foundation from Politecnico di Torino, he is comfortable moving between deep technical problems and broad platform strategy.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Github Skills (14)
c1710
kernel-module10
system-programming10
c1110
ebpf10
performance-optimization9
makefile7
debugging7
assembly7
debug7
dockers5
docker5
kubernetes4
kubernetes-pods4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
draios/sysdig
Jan 2014 - May 2019
Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Engineer
Back-end Developer & System EngineerContributions:22 releases, 1035 commits, 144 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gianluca's commits primarily focus on improving the sysdig probe's performance and addressing compatibility issues. They made numerous changes to the driver code, including refactoring ring buffer processing, implementing page fault support, and refining code to handle various kernel versions and architectures. Their work encompasses both kernel-level programming and optimization, demonstrating expertise in systems-level software development. They also contributed to the project's support for different operating systems, including macOS.
containerstroubleshootingseccomplinuxdocker
gianlucaborello/linux
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 51 pushes, 22 branches in 11 months
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