Rossella Sblendido
Director Of Engineering at SUSE
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolRossella Sblendido is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure and customer-facing platforms, now serving as Director of Engineering at SUSE in Milan. She has steered large teams and cross-functional programs—ranging from OpenStack networking and SDN/NFV offerings to checkout, payments, and post-purchase operations—balancing technical direction with people-first management. A hands-on former core reviewer and contributor to OpenStack Neutron, she brings deep backend and DevOps expertise in networking, test automation, and release engineering that has improved reliability for systems used by millions. Rossella combines that technical pedigree with an MBA and a track record of mentoring programs and internal growth initiatives that reduce silos and accelerate promotions. She also helped create lightweight AI tooling (k3ai) and has experience leading product integrations and customer-facing update infrastructures, blending ops rigor with product sensibility. Detail-oriented and pragmatic, she excels at translating complex distributed systems needs into executable roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at The Open UniversityMaster's degree Telecommunications engineering, Master's degree Telecommunications engineering at Politecnico di MilanoTelecommunications engineering, Telecommunications engineering at Technische Universität DresdenUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, German, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (8)
openstack-neutron10
python10
networking9
devops9
apidoc9
api9
gerrit7
cicd7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
Jan 2014 - Dec 2016
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:63 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rossella primarily focused on back-end development tasks, making changes to the core networking code by removing unused flags and refactoring methods. They also implemented enhancements to existing tests and added new unit and functional tests to improve code quality and test coverage. The user demonstrates a strong understanding of the OpenStack Neutron project and contributed to improvements in agent and database interactions, including security group handling and IP address management. Furthermore, the user made contributions to improve the build and release processes, including adding a script to create a review dashboard.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
rossella/neutron
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:92 pushes, 79 branches in 1 year 8 months
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