Riccardo Ravaioli
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolRiccardo Ravaioli is a Senior System Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance network and cloud-native infrastructure, now at NVIDIA after leading SDN work at Red Hat on OVN-Kubernetes. He combines deep systems and networking expertise—DPDK, Open vSwitch, SR-IOV, libvirt/KVM—with hands-on C/Python development and DevOps practices to ship production-grade NFV and CNI features. His PhD research on detecting traffic differentiation shows a strong foundation in measurement, statistical methods and protocol-level debugging that informs pragmatic approaches to complex networking bugs and performance tuning. Notably, he has contributed to OVN-Kubernetes to improve CNI request handling, sensitive-data filtering and IPv6 support, demonstrating attention to reliability and security in open-source networking stacks. Comfortable working across architecture, implementation and customer-facing issue resolution, he often bridges remote teams, presales and support to deliver on tight timelines. Based in Nice, France, he blends academic rigor with product-driven engineering to solve real-world networking challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Université Côte d'AzurComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, French, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
cni9
devops8
ipv68
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
A robust Kubernetes networking platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:327 reviews, 44 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Riccardo's contributions primarily involved modifying the OVN-Kubernetes codebase, focusing on improving the handling of network configurations and CNI requests. The changes include adding format table to ovn-nbctl find calls and using strings.Fields. Another significant contribution includes filtering sensitive information, namely KubeAPIAuth, when logging CNI requests and minimizing marshalling operations. The user also made code changes to the EgressFirewall and related test files and also made IPv6 support changes.
k8skubernetesovncnicni-plugin
ricky-rav/cluster-network-operator
Sep 2021 - Jan 2025
Create and manage cluster networking configuration
Contributions:1 PR, 175 pushes, 39 branches in 3 years 5 months
clusterkubernetesnetworking
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