Simone Ruffilli is a Strategic Cloud Engineer at Google in Milan with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructures, web technologies, and automation through IaC. He partners with top-tier enterprise customers to solve complex migration, capacity planning and integration challenges while feeding product and engineering teams with field-driven improvements. Previously he led video and publisher-focused technical solutions across EMEA, delivering tools and processes adopted by thousands of users and unlocking significant revenue opportunities. An advocate for test-driven infrastructure, he contributes to high-profile repos like GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-foundation-fabric, improving Terraform module test coverage for networking and firewall scenarios. His background blends system administration, full-stack development and product-minded engineering, giving him a rare ability to translate business needs into reliable, scalable platforms. Colloquially, he’s the kind of engineer who writes tests for the network before breakfast and shapes product roadmaps by midday.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Bologna
High School Diploma, Information Technology, High School Diploma, Information Technology at Fulcieri
End-to-end modular samples and landing zones toolkit for Terraform on GCP.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Contributions:3 releases, 177 reviews, 132 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Simone primarily contributed to the test suite, updating and adding tests for Terraform modules related to Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. Their work involved modifying existing tests for subnets, firewall policies, and VPC firewall rules. They also implemented new tests for features like subnet factories and peering configurations, demonstrating a focus on automated testing of infrastructure components. This includes the implementation of tests for a simple Networking Appliance, ensuring the correct PBR implementation in GCE.
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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