Michele Bologna
Software Engineering Manager at SUSE
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolMichele Bologna is a Software Engineering Manager based in Lombardy, Italy, with 14 years of experience leading teams and delivering large-scale, mission-critical systems. He progressed from hands-on back-end and DevOps work to management at SUSE, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems, infrastructure automation (notably contributions to SaltStack), and system management tools like Uyuni/Spacewalk. Michele has driven high-throughput banking platform initiatives and designed microservices and middleware deployed across tens of thousands of endpoints, demonstrating both architectural vision and operational rigor. He combines strong testing and refactoring discipline—migrating tests to modern frameworks and improving test robustness—with practical improvements such as reducing noisy logging and adding guarded unit tests. An active open-source contributor, he has influenced widely used projects (e.g., SaltStack, oh-my-zsh) while maintaining a focus on reliability and scalability. Known for blending technical depth with team leadership, he also brings an academic foundation in distributed systems from UCLA and top honors from Università degli Studi di Bergamo.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 110/110 cum laude / GPA: 27.9/30, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 110/110 cum laude / GPA: 27.9/30 at Università degli Studi di BergamoVisiting Researcher, Computer Science, Distributed Systems, Visiting Researcher, Computer Science, Distributed Systems at University of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (32)
git10
postgresql10
python10
jsp10
testing10
plugin-development10
configuration-management10
java10
javas10
jspx10
saltstack10
sql10
infrastructure-as-code10
zsh10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
uyuni-project/uyuni
May 2016 - Oct 2021
Source code for Uyuni
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 1450 commits, 109 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michele primarily worked on back-end development, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Uyuni project. Their contributions involved addressing issues related to duplicate insertions during hardware refreshes, code indentation, database interactions (especially in SQL schema), and the implementation of changes related to minion behavior. They made additions to the Salt reactor, including implementing auto-reconnection to the event bus and a pillar-based approach for handling OS image builds. They demonstrated expertise in areas like system administration, system management, and software maintenance.
spring-bootpythonuyunisuse-managerlinux
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
Mar 2013 - Oct 2020
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 26 PRs, 43 comments in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michele primarily contributed to the `ohmyzsh` project by enhancing its functionality. Their work included renaming aliases, adding plugins such as the "fancy-ctrl-z" and "fedora" plugins, and modifying the Git prompt. Furthermore, the user addressed code style issues like indentation, upgraded a plugin to its latest version, and made improvements to the window title. They also worked on improving the git prompt, which involved adjusting git status display.
oh-my-zsh-pluginpythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-update
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