Pierre Prinetti
Engineering Manager I at Datadog
Berlin, France
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Top SchoolPierre Prinetti is an engineering manager and seasoned open-source engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading remote, cross-functional teams for cloud-native platforms like OpenShift and OpenStack. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—especially in Go—with a track record of improving installer reliability, test automation, and release tooling across flagship repos such as openshift/installer and gophercloud. As a people-first leader he drove an Agile transformation at Red Hat, mentors engineers across seniority levels, and emphasizes continuous improvement, shift-left testing and personal development. His work on stabilizing flaky networking tests and adding control-plane failure-domain features shows a pragmatic focus on resilience and observability in distributed systems. Now based in Berlin and working at Datadog, he continues to bridge security-conscious engineering (previously in healthcare and banking) with cloud infrastructure at scale. An under-the-radar strength: he maintains k-orc and contributes to core SDKs, demonstrating sustained commitment to the OSS ecosystems that power production clusters.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (42)
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
terraform10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
gophercloud/gophercloud
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Gophercloud: an OpenStack SDK for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 267 reviews, 38 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily contributed to the OpenStack SDK for Go (Gophercloud) project by addressing issues, improving code, and fixing documentation. Their work included updating dependencies like `golang.org/x/crypto` and fixing JSON unmarshalling issues in the Neutron quota extension. They also added features, such as adding the ServerGroup property to the Server type and adding new monitor types. Additionally, the user fixed documentation errors and added testing configurations.
golanggophercloudsdkopenstackopenstack-sdk
openshift/installer
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:227 reviews, 174 commits, 220 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily focused on enhancing the OpenShift installer's OpenStack platform integration. Their contributions involved improving error logging and providing context in the OpenStack cluster destroy logic. They also updated dependencies, refactored existing code for maintainability, and introduced new features related to server group policies and failure domains, specifically for Control Plane nodes. Furthermore, they addressed issues with security group tagging and the handling of Swift object storage operations.
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