Luigi Toscano
Principal Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Catania, Sicily, Italy
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Top SchoolLuigi Toscano is a Principal Quality Engineer with 18 years of experience building and hardening cloud and desktop software, currently leading QA efforts for Red Hat OpenStack Platform from Cinder to Sahara and interoperability tooling. He blends deep testing and automation expertise with DevOps contributions to high-profile open-source projects like OpenStack DevStack, Tempest and Horizon, improving CI jobs, test reliability and plugin integration. A longstanding KDE contributor and localization specialist, Luigi also modernizes build and i18n workflows for projects such as Krita and Plasma Desktop. His background spans academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Science from Università di Catania—and practical systems work, allowing him to bridge research, test engineering and operational needs. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic fixes that reduce flakiness in complex distributed tests and for thoughtfully porting environment/configuration tooling across projects. Based in Catania, Sicily, he combines global open-source stewardship with deep institutional knowledge of Red Hat’s cloud quality landscape.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
(Scientific) maturity certificate, (Scientific) maturity certificate at Liceo ScientificoPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Università di Catania
Italian, English
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Github Skills (38)
test-automation10
selenium10
translation10
python10
scripting10
testing10
configuration-management10
internationalization10
selenium-ide10
cicd10
pest10
plasmoid10
automation10
localization10
script10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/devstack
Apr 2014 - Oct 2020
System for quickly installing an OpenStack cloud from upstream git for testing and development. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Luigi primarily contributed to the DevOps aspects of the DevStack project. Their commits focused on modifying configuration files for Zuul jobs, streamlining plugin integration, and enhancing the role responsible for setting up the local configuration file. They also introduced a new role to retrieve and export environment variables, which is designed as a porting aid. These changes indicate a focus on improving the automation, integration, and testing infrastructure for the OpenStack cloud environment.
installingtestinginfrastructureopenshiftupstream
KDE/plasma-desktop
Dec 2015 - Nov 2022
Plasma for the Desktop
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:21 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Luigi primarily focused on internationalization efforts within the KDE Plasma Desktop repository. Their contributions involved adding i18n contexts to theme details, simplifying UI strings, and fixing terminology related to "KDE" and "Plasma". Furthermore, the user updated the translation catalogs by renaming them to avoid conflicts and ensure compatibility with existing systems. They also made several terminology fixes and handled merging of updates.
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