Giovanni Panice
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Naples, Campania, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolGiovanni Panice is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-performance distributed systems across travel tech, enterprise infrastructure and aerospace. Currently a core member of the Debezium team at Red Hat, he focuses on performance, native builds and Quarkus integration to make change-data-capture more reliable and usable at scale. His background spans real-time pricing engines, large-scale metric forecasting and UAV navigation anomaly detection, reflecting a knack for applying rigorous engineering to safety- and latency-sensitive domains. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Debezium’s SQL Server connector and test infrastructure, helping a widely used CDC project operate with encrypted databases. Based in Naples, he also co-organizes the Ticino Software Craft meetup, cultivating software quality and hands-on learning in the community. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep systems knowledge with a taste for playful distributed-systems humor.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
Italian, English
Github Skills (14)
debezium10
javas10
sql-server10
change-data-capture10
databases10
cdc10
apache-kafka10
test-container10
java10
database10
testing9
sql9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
debezium/debezium
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://issues.redhat.com/browse/DBZ.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 PRs, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Giovanni contributed to the Debezium project by refactoring code, fixing linting issues, and implementing features related to SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). Their work involved modifying test infrastructure, connector code, and database initialization scripts. The user's contributions focused on enhancing the SQL Server connector's testing capabilities and improving its integration with encrypted databases.
kafka-connectapache-kafkadata-capturedatabasekafka-producer
fusillicode/hedwig_telegram
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 15 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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