Simone Tiraboschi
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolSimone Tiraboschi is a Principal Software Engineer based in Lombardy, Italy, with 12 years of experience delivering robust backend and DevOps solutions at Red Hat. He specializes in cloud-native virtualization and release automation, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like KubeVirt, OpenShift release tooling, oVirt and VDSM where he improved CI/CD, operator CRDs, and runtime logging/streaming features. Known for practical engineering, he often focuses on reliability—reducing test flakiness, hardening build processes, and adapting tooling for varied environments such as RHEL8. His background combines long-term consultancy experience with hands-on systems work, from packaging and setup scripts to operator automation. Colleagues value him for pragmatic problem-solving and steady contributions that improve observability and deployability in complex virtualization stacks.
12 years of coding experience
MASTER, ICT, Laurea, Engineering, MASTER, ICT, Laurea, Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
Liceo Scientifico E. Amaldi
English
Github Skills (36)
json-rpc10
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
http10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
ovirt10
release-management10
automation10
script10
go10
api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/hyperconverged-cluster-operator
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Operator pattern for managing multi-operator products
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 releases, 1145 reviews, 402 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Simone contributed to the management and configuration of the Hyperconverged Cluster Operator, including updating dependencies, such as kubevirt, CNAO, and CDI. They focused on building and maintaining the deployment scripts and related automation tools for testing and deployment, which also encompassed modifications to the Continuous Integration (CI) process. Furthermore, the user improved the generation of the Operator's Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and made changes to handle the configuration for key components like the network stack.
hcohyperconvergedopenshiftoperatorvirtualization
oVirt/ovirt-engine
Mar 2014 - Dec 2019
The oVirt Engine virtualization manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:170 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Simone primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the oVirt Engine virtualization manager, with the commits focused on improving engine health checks by transitioning from legacy health servlet usage to REST API calls, and various setup and configuration enhancements. The contributions involved modifying Python scripts within the packaging/setup directory, refactoring configuration options, and adjusting the behavior of the engine-setup and engine-cleanup tools. Furthermore, the user implemented features like an updated cluster compatibility level selection in the all-in-one component and resolving various build issues.
defoldlibvirtovirtvirtualizationovirt-engine
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