Ludovico De Nittis
Senior Software Engineering Consultant at Collabora
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolLudovico De Nittis is a Senior Software Engineering Consultant with 12 years of experience, currently at Collabora and based in Bologna, Italy. He specializes in embedded Linux, containerization and runtime environments, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like RAUC, Flatpak and the Steam Runtime to improve update security, sandboxing reliability, and build/runtime tooling. His contributions range from pragmatic documentation and configuration fixes to adding features (e.g., --trust-environment, desync support) and performance-oriented script refactors, showing an emphasis on robustness and developer experience. A long-time GNOME contributor and former intern who hardened systems against malicious USB devices, he pairs systems-level expertise with strong backend and DevOps instincts. He holds a Master’s in Engineering and Computer Science from Università di Bologna and brings a blend of academic rigor and practical, production-focused engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Bologna
Italian, English
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Github Skills (38)
docker10
scripting10
firmware10
linux10
build-system10
software-update10
c1110
dockers10
c1710
automation10
script10
system-administration10
sh10
embedded10
updater10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ValveSoftware/steam-runtime
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
A runtime environment for Steam applications
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 92 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ludovico primarily focused on maintaining and improving the build and runtime environment for Steam applications. They deprecated outdated setup scripts and refactored existing scripts to improve efficiency and user experience, such as implementing a progress bar and handling environment variables. Their work also involved enabling stricter mode and improving the performance of library pinning processes within the runtime environment, demonstrating a focus on optimizing the development and deployment processes.
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rauc/rauc
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Safe and secure software updates for embedded Linux
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ludovico primarily contributed to the documentation and configuration of the RAUC update system. They fixed documentation issues, ensuring that the reference guide accurately reflected the latest changes. Furthermore, they added features such as the `--trust-environment` flag for various commands and added initial support for desync, an alternative casync implementation, for embedded systems updates, and provided additional flexibility by allowing the user to configure additional arguments passed to casync extract.
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