Ilaria Ottonello
Project Manager at Engage Labs
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolIlaria Ottonello is a project manager and product owner with 12 years of experience bridging hands-on technical work and team-led delivery in software and production environments. Based in Parma, she currently leads projects at Engage Labs after cofounding and serving as CTO at Engage IT Services, where she adopted Agile/Scrum practices and Azure DevOps to improve planning and stakeholder communication. Her background as a former DBA and active contributor to the popular dbatools repository demonstrates deep SQL Server expertise—she implemented Resource Governor automation features used in safer, faster migrations. She combines lean production experience managing B2B/B2C manufacturing teams with software delivery discipline, giving her a pragmatic, cross-functional perspective on product development. An organizer of SQL Saturday and DevOpsHeroes events and a self-described gamer, she brings community engagement and a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving. Practical, technically fluent, and client-facing, she excels at turning complex requirements into reliable, auditable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale, Computer Engineering, Laurea triennale, Computer Engineering at Università degli studi di Parma
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Github Skills (10)
sql-server10
powershell10
databases10
database-administration10
mssql10
database10
migration9
sql6
visual-studio6
tsql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dataplat/dbatools
Apr 2018 - May 2018
🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ilaria primarily contributed to the `dbatools` repository by implementing and modifying functionalities related to SQL Server Resource Governor. Their work focused on creating, modifying, and managing Resource Governor classifier functions, utilizing SMO methods for database object manipulation. The contributions included improvements to the `Copy-DbaResourceGovernor` cmdlet and the addition of the `Get-DbaResourceGovernorClassiferFunction` function.
sqlserverbackupsaferserver-automationsql-server
suxstellino/events
Jun 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:19 commits, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
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