Michael Grifalconi
QA Engineer at Università degli Studi di Milano
Veneto, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Grifalconi is a seasoned QA and DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience building and securing large-scale cloud platforms, currently focusing on CI and automation for Cloud Foundry as part of SAP Cloud Platform. He combines deep hands-on skills in BOSH, Concourse CI, Bash, Python and Go with practical security ownership—managing vulnerability patches, proactive scans and incident processes across multi-cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, Alibaba). At SUSE and through significant open-source contributions to os-autoinst for openSUSE test automation, he improves reliability by writing and hardening test cases for complex system utilities and services. A former academic tutor with a masters in IT security (full marks), he brings both clear teaching ability and a penchant for designing repeatable, observable architectures that scale to thousands of instances. Unusually for his role, he also has patent-backed research experience in log integrity and privacy from his master’s internship at SAP Labs.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanHigh school diploma, Accounting and Finance, Information Technology, High school diploma, Accounting and Finance, Information Technology at ITC A.Fusinieri
English, Italian
Github Skills (9)
automated-tests10
bash10
system-testing10
opensuse10
test-automation10
perl9
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
fest4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
os-autoinst test cases for openSUSE
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:118 reviews, 83 commits, 165 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributes to the `os-autoinst` repository, focusing on adding and adapting test cases. They develop tests for various system utilities like `iotop`, `udisks2`, and `oprofile`. Their contributions also involve adding new tests for `yast2` modules and modifying existing ones to enhance test coverage and ensure compatibility with different openSUSE versions. Furthermore, the user refactors and fixes existing tests such as the `pidgin` and increases retries on the rmt sync, ensuring more reliable automated testing.
opensusecasestest-cases
michaelgrifalconi/git2go-images
Aug 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 8 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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