Paolo Patierno
Senior Principal Software Engineer at IBM
Naples, Campania, Italy
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Top SchoolPaolo Patierno is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years crafting cloud-native messaging and data streaming architectures, currently shaping Kafka-on-Kubernetes and streaming tooling at IBM and as a long-time Strimzi maintainer for CNCF. He brings deep IoT experience, having built device- and cloud-side solutions and maintained MQTT clients (owner of M2Mqtt) and contributions to Apache Kafka and Eclipse Hono. Paolo blends backend engineering with DevOps expertise—creating Dockerfiles, Kubernetes manifests, TLS and tracing integrations—to run resilient distributed systems in production. An active open-source committer and former Microsoft MVP, he frequently speaks and blogs about messaging and streaming, and quietly pairs this technical leadership with a passion for Formula 1 and MotoGP.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Italian, English
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Github Skills (46)
kubernetes10
docker10
ssl10
mqtt10
dockers10
kafka-streams10
java10
mqttnet10
scala10
javas10
kubernetes-pods10
dotnet-core10
logging10
apache-kafka10
csharp10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.m2mqtt
Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 18 commits, 1 PR in 2 years
Contributions summary:Paolo's contributions primarily involved the development and maintenance of the M2Mqtt library. Their work included implementing support for MQTT protocol versions 3.1, 3.1.1, and SSL/TLS client authentication. Key modifications include adding session management features, handling connection flags, and addressing various bugs. The user also focused on improving stability and handling of network-related exceptions.
strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 3192 reviews, 670 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Paolo's contributions centered on developing and configuring Apache Kafka within a Kubernetes environment. They were responsible for creating and modifying Dockerfiles, shell scripts, and Kubernetes YAML configuration files to build and deploy Kafka-based clusters using the Strimzi operator. Their work included implementing features like TLS encryption, broker ID generation, and incorporating the Jaeger agent for tracing. They focused on the operational aspects of Kafka, including build scripts, environment variables, and service configurations.
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