Summary
Gianni Salinetti is an experienced cloud and solution architect with 11+ years designing and enabling cloud-native transformations, currently serving as Associate Principal Account Solution Architect at Red Hat in Rome. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, RHEL and automation (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet) with programming fluency in C, Go, Python, Java and Rust. A Red Hat Certified Architect (Level V) and former Red Hat Certified Instructor, he co-authored Podman for DevOps and has been recognized repeatedly as EMEA Instructor of the Year across cloud, DevOps and middleware. His background spans systems administration in Italian public institutions to CTO responsibilities at a Red Hat-focused consultancy, giving him rare perspective across operations, training and customer-facing architecture. He also explores eBPF and AI/ML for modern observability and performance tuning, and maintains an active GitHub reflecting practical tooling and demos. Outside work he balances technical curiosity with creative pursuits—guitar, photography and karate—bringing a pragmatic, hands-on leadership style to complex projects.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Istituto Tecnico Commerciale Fabio Besta Civita Castellana
Red Hat Training
Ingegneria elettronica, Ingegneria elettronica at Università degli studi Roma TRE
Italian, English, French