Raffaele Di Fazio
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRaffaele Di Fazio is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and scaling delivery organizations. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like kops, external-dns and GitHub’s CLI—with leadership that grows teams, introduces reproducible CI/CD practices, and champions post-mortem and reliability culture. At GitHub he designed a Kubernetes operator for deployments and led continuous delivery for enterprise offerings, including early prototyping for GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. Previously he re-architected multi-account AWS setups, migrated teams to Kubernetes, and drove security threat modelling at Blacklane and Zalando. Known for clear technical coaching and pragmatic automation, he focuses on enabling teams to ship fast, learn from mistakes, and enjoy the work.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Degree (BS equivalent) Computer Engineering, Laurea Degree (BS equivalent) Computer Engineering at Sapienza University of RomeLaurea Magistrale (Master's equivalent) 110/110 summa cum laude Computer Engineering, Laurea Magistrale (Master's equivalent) 110/110 summa cum laude Computer Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English, French, German
Github Skills (40)
kubernetes10
kops10
continuous-integration10
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
command-line-interface10
load-balancing10
cloud-infrastructure10
bash10
continuous-delivery10
go10
api10
aws10
github-api10
pipeline10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:27 releases, 233 reviews, 260 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Raffaele's contributions focused on restructuring the provider implementations and the build process. These changes involved modifying core files to integrate different DNS providers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS, etc.) and configuring build dependencies. Furthermore, the commits included modifications to testing frameworks and test files.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
zalando-incubator/kubernetes-on-aws
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Deploying Kubernetes on AWS with CloudFormation and Ubuntu
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:178 commits, 135 PRs, 118 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Raffaele primarily focused on improving the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters on AWS. Their contributions involved modifying deployment scripts, updating cluster configuration files, and integrating updates for the autoscaler. They made changes to the cluster setup for a region, addressing the maximum number of worker nodes, and enhancing the overall cluster update process.
deployingdevopsdockercloudamazon-web-services
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