Jacopo Giola
Senior Software Engineer, Developer Poductivity at Red Hat
Casorezzo, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolJacopo Giola is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience transitioning from iOS and Node.js development to cloud-native engineering and Go, now focused on developer productivity and CLI tooling for Mia-Platform offerings and Kubernetes. He has held progressive roles at Mia-Platform—from operations leader to staff engineer—and currently works at Red Hat improving developer workflows. Jacopo brings a strong testing and QA mindset demonstrated by contributions to the Swift corelibs Foundation tests, where he fixed platform-specific failures and expanded coverage. Based in Lombardy, Italy, he combines a preference for clean, efficient code with hands-on experience building advanced PoCs and production tooling that bridge developer ergonomics and cloud infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanHigh School Diploma, Electronic and Telecommunications, High School Diploma, Electronic and Telecommunications at ITIS A.Bernocchi
English, Italian
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
swift10
test-framework10
xctest10
foundation10
testing10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jacopo primarily contributed to the testing framework within the Foundation project. Their work involved adding new test cases to validate functionality like `NSClassFromString`, `NSStringFromClass`, date formatting and `NSRange` functionalities. They addressed platform-specific issues, specifically fixing a failing test on Linux and enabling additional tests. This focus on comprehensive testing, coupled with fixes and improvements, highlights their role in ensuring the stability and correctness of the codebase.
tvostranslationinternationalizationfoundationindependence
mia-platform/public-pipelines
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Repositories for public pipelines for building and releasing services with Mia-Platform Console
Contributions:4 reviews, 37 PRs, 191 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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