Giovanni Sciortino
Cloud Architect at Red Hat
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolGiovanni Sciortino is a Cloud Architect with eight years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise IT infrastructures, currently strengthening Red Hat’s cloud and platform offerings from Milan. He combines deep sysadmin expertise—Linux/Red Hat, virtualization (Xen, VMware), backup and DR, monitoring, and automation (Puppet, Ansible contributions)—with software engineering skills in C/C++, Java, PHP and database design. Giovanni’s career path spans technical consulting and leadership roles at Red Hat, HP, and cloud-focused startups, where he translated complex requirements into resilient, automated datacenter solutions. An active contributor to core Ansible modules, he has improved robustness and usability in a widely adopted open-source automation project, reflecting a practitioner-first approach to tooling. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science Engineering from Sapienza and brings a pragmatic blend of scripting, systems, and architectural thinking that helps enterprises operationalize cloud at scale.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaMaster Degree in Computer Science Engineering, Software engineering, Master Degree in Computer Science Engineering, Software engineering at Sapienza Università di RomaBachelor Degree, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor Degree, Computer Science Engineering at Università degli Studi di Palermo
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
ansible-galaxy10
automation10
automations10
python10
devops10
ansible10
git9
yaml8
cicd8
scripting7
script7
sh7
shell7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 29 PRs, 80 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Giovanni primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the Ansible automation platform. Their contributions included adding check mode support to ansible-pull, implementing atomic_move in the ini_file module, and adding scan_new_hosts feature in ansible foreman inventory. Additionally, they addressed bugs related to file handling and directory creation within various Ansible modules such as blockinfile and lineinfile. These changes showcase their expertise in improving core modules and overall usability.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
giovannisciortino/giovannisciortino.github.io
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 141 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 6 months
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