Itxaka Serrano
Open Source Software Engineer at Spectro Cloud
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolItxaka Serrano is an open source software engineer based in Madrid with 16 years of experience building and hardening cloud and infrastructure software. He has a strong back-end and DevOps pedigree from roles at SUSE, Red Hat and Spectro Cloud and significant contributions to OpenStack projects, including Horizon and Helm, improving validation, quotas and user-facing error handling. His open-source work spans low-level system tooling—enhancing hardware discovery in the popular ghw Go library to better handle block devices and loop devices—to higher-level orchestration and automation in StackStorm packs. Known for pragmatic refactors and test-driven enhancements, he combines production-grade code quality with technical writing to keep documentation accurate and deployable. Comfortable across Linux internals, cloud orchestration and CI/QA automation, he brings a systems-first mindset that surfaces non-obvious stability and security fixes before they reach users.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ofimatica, Ofimatica at Escuela de informatica privadaRHCE, IT, RHCE, IT at Red Hat MadridESO, ESO at Instituto Plaza de la Cruz
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Github Skills (46)
python10
django10
testing10
linux10
horizon10
security10
rabbitmq10
aws-security-group10
go10
openstack10
installer10
libcloud10
postinstall10
installers10
udev10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2contrib
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
MOVED! See StackStorm Exchange
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 commits, 8 PRs, 21 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Itxaka primarily focused on developing and refactoring a Softlayer pack within the `st2contrib` repository, which included actions for instance creation, destruction, and keypair management. They refactored the code to improve clarity and extensibility, introducing individual entrypoints for each action. Additionally, the user implemented a polling sensor for RabbitMQ, enabling the monitoring and triggering of messages from specified queues. The user also added various actions for Mmonit API.
nodejsexchangestackstorm
jaypipes/ghw
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Go HardWare discovery/inspection library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Itxaka focused on enhancing the `ghw` library's hardware discovery capabilities, particularly related to block device information on Linux systems. Their contributions centered around retrieving partition labels and types using the udev database, replacing existing methods. They implemented unit tests to ensure the correctness of these new functionalities, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and testability. Moreover, the user refactored code to support loop devices, which are used in various hardware configurations.
golang-librarygolanginspectiongolang-hardware-discoverydiscovery
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