Mirko Brombin
GNOME Foundation Member
Paese, Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolMirko Brombin is an Italian UX-focused product designer and software engineer with 11 years of experience building user-centered interfaces and open-source tooling. As a partner at Fabricators SRL since 2021 he leads product and UX across the company while also founding projects like Bottles and Vanilla OS to make Linux more accessible. He contributes daily to Linux communities and the GNOME Foundation, blending design sensibility with hands-on engineering—recently working on Vanilla-OS live ISO build and packaging changes. Mirko’s background includes running hosting services and bespoke web platforms, giving him practical full-stack and DevOps instincts alongside UI craftsmanship. He’s known for turning complex cross-platform compatibility challenges into pragmatic user experiences, such as automating Windows app support on Linux with Bottles. Based in Veneto, Italy, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with steady open-source maintenance and community-driven impact.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
CFP Lepido Rocco
Italian, English
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Github Skills (15)
bash10
script10
build-automation10
linux9
devops8
ubuntu7
overflow6
html6
css6
wordpress6
nodejs6
nginx6
php6
scroll6
mod-rewrite6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
Vanilla-OS/live-iso
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Vanilla OS Live ISO Builder.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:5 releases, 6 reviews, 125 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mirko primarily focused on modifying the build script for the Vanilla OS live ISO. Their contributions centered around updating the build process to support new Ubuntu versions (kinetic), including adjusting debootstrap scripts and dependencies. They also made a series of changes related to ZSTD compression support and revert some of those changes due to instability.
isoos-releasebuilderubuntuvanilla
Vanilla-OS/nvidia-image
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Containerfile for the Vanilla OS Desktop+Nvidia image.
Contributions:1 release, 15 reviews, 27 PRs in 1 year 7 months
imagesnvidiaoci-imagevanillaos
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