Gilberto Bertin
Member Of Technical Staff at Ciroos
Greater Padova (Padua) Metropolitan Area Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolGilberto Bertin is a Member of Technical Staff with 14 years of experience building high-performance networking and cloud-native systems, currently contributing to Cilium and working at Ciroos. He has deep expertise in eBPF, Linux networking, XDP and Kubernetes, having driven DDoS mitigation and L3/L4/L7 traffic systems at Cloudflare and security and platform work at Monzo. As a long-time Cilium committer and former Isovalent engineer, he blends kernel- and user-space engineering to deliver scalable observability and networking features for production clusters. His open-source contributions span low-level projects—from an embedded Raspberry Pi LED daemon to Opal asset tooling—showing comfort across C, Ruby, and systems tooling. Based in the Padua area, he pairs pragmatic operational experience with a history of shipping kernel patches and XDP-based load balancing prototypes. Notably, he bridges bleeding-edge kernel networking techniques with real-world security and platform needs, making him effective at turning research-grade primitives into production-ready features.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
c1110
ruby10
c1710
opal10
sys10
embedded10
raspberry-pi10
unix-socket10
sprockets10
linux9
browser9
compiler-compiler9
gpio9
compiler9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pimoroni/unicorn-hat
Nov 2014 - May 2015
Python library for Unicorn pHAT and HAT. 32 or 64 blinding ws2812 pixels for your Raspberry Pi
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Gilberto primarily worked on developing `unicornd`, a daemon for controlling WS2812 LEDs on a Raspberry Pi, likely for the Unicorn pHAT/HAT. Their contributions include the initial implementation of the daemon in C, adding a Ruby test client for controlling the LEDs over a Unix socket, and adding a set_all_pixels command to control all pixels simultaneously. They also refactored the code to utilize the ws281x library for controlling the LEDs, including fixing the set_brightness functionality.
python-libraryraspberry-pipythonphatws2812
opal/opal
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Ruby ♥︎ JavaScript
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Gilberto focused on enhancing the Opal project's Sprockets integration. Their contributions involved adding options like `use_index` and `source_map`, which improved the server's flexibility. They replaced the `Rack::Directory` with `Rack::Static` for serving assets, streamlining the process. Furthermore, the user added a `public_dir=` method and updated the source map syntax, contributing to better asset management and debugging capabilities.
jsv8-javascript-enginebrowserjavascriptruby
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