Niccolò Fei
Kubernetes Administrator Automation Engineer Cloud Native Team
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolNiccolò Fei is a Kubernetes-focused automation engineer and PostgreSQL specialist with nine years of experience building reliable, cloud-native database operations from Florence, Italy. As part of EDB's Cloud Native Team he designs and maintains Kubernetes-based Postgres deployments and enhances automation to improve resilience and operational efficiency. Previously a DBA at 2ndQuadrant Italia, he pairs deep database knowledge with hands-on Kubernetes administration and test automation. An active contributor to the CloudNativePG project, he has strengthened E2E test coverage for failovers, rolling upgrades, replication and PVC behaviors—work that directly improves production reliability. Known for measuring real-world switchover characteristics and validating storage semantics, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to platform hardening.
9 years of coding experience
Diploma Istituto Tecnico, Informatica, Diploma Istituto Tecnico, Informatica at ITIS A. MeucciQualifica Professionale, Progettazione e Gestione Database Open source, Qualifica Professionale, Progettazione e Gestione Database Open source at PIN Polo Universitario di Prato
Italian, English
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
failover10
postgresql10
replication10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
databases9
database9
devops9
operator8
high-availability8
database-management7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
CloudNativePG is a comprehensive platform designed to seamlessly manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments, covering the entire operational lifecycle from initial deployment to ongoing maintenance
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:308 reviews, 50 commits, 154 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Niccolò's contributions primarily involve enhancing and expanding the end-to-end (E2E) testing suite for the `cloudnative-pg` project. They fixed issues in existing E2E tests, added new tests to cover configuration updates, rolling upgrades, failover scenarios, and synchronous replication. The user's work also extended to measuring switchover times, validating separate WAL volumes, and ensuring proper label propagation within PVCs. These changes improve the project's test coverage and reliability.
operatorfailovercoversjson-loggingstreaming
cloudnative-pg/postgres-trunk-containers
Nov 2022 - Feb 2025
A scheduled pipeline that runs CloudNativePG E2E tests using the latest main of PostgreSQL
Contributions:23 reviews, 59 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 3 months
containerse2e-testspipelinedockercloudnativepg
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