Riccardo Pittau
Principal Software Engineer at OpenStack
Versailles, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolRiccardo Pittau is a Principal Software Engineer and cloud-native infrastructure specialist with 9 years of focused experience building and hardening large-scale systems in the entertainment and open-source worlds. Now at Red Hat and an active OpenStack Ironic project lead and core reviewer, he blends deep systems expertise—OpenStack, OpenShift, bare-metal provisioning, virtualization and AWS—with hands-on DevOps automation using Ansible, Bash, Python and container tools. His open-source contributions improve CI/CD, build/test robustness and security posture across prominent projects like keylime and OpenShift release tooling, reflecting a knack for making complex pipelines reliable in disconnected or constrained environments. At Blizzard he supported global fleets of 20k+ servers, demonstrating operational rigor and scalability sensibilities that carry into his platform work. Outside engineering he’s a runner, boardgamer and books lover, a hint that his problem-solving style balances endurance, strategic play and continuous learning.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at IFTSLiceo Scientifico "Michelangelo"
Italian, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (60)
openstack-sdk10
podman10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
bare-metal10
continuous-integration10
python10
apidoc10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
continuous-delivery10
resource-management10
containerization10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openshift-metal3/dev-scripts
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Scripts to automate development/test setup for openshift integration with https://github.com/metal3-io/
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:101 reviews, 30 commits, 58 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Riccardo primarily contributed to automating development and test setup for OpenShift integration with Metal3. Their work involved scripting with Bash to install requirements, configure hosts, deploy bootstrap VMs, and clean up environments. They demonstrated expertise in containerization using Podman and integrated with Ansible for orchestration tasks. Several commits focused on modifying build processes for custom images and integrating with CI/CD pipelines.
continuous-deploymentmetal3openshift-integrationopenshiftkubernetes
openshift/release
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:58 reviews, 135 commits, 258 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Riccardo's contributions primarily revolve around the OpenShift release tooling, particularly focusing on infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline improvements. They made changes to shell scripts used in the CI/CD process, including adjusting proxy settings and implementing retry logic for image mirroring during disconnected upgrades. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to bare metal deployments and testing, demonstrating an understanding of the OpenShift platform and related automation. The changes included modifying scripts to install Rocky Linux support, demonstrating system and configuration management capabilities.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
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