Stefano Panella
Principal SW Engineer - Cloud Architect at Citrix
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStefano Panella is a Principal Software Engineer and Cloud Architect with 12+ years building low-level systems across firmware, OSes and virtualization, currently shaping cloud products at Citrix from the Greater Cambridge Area. He brings deep C expertise in Linux kernel, Xen hypervisor and device driver development, and has driven features for the widely used xapi-project/xen-api to extend cluster and pool management. Comfortable leading projects from prototype to production, he excels in early design decisions, cross-team coordination (including vendor liaisons) and mentoring geographically distributed teams. His background uniquely blends HW/firmware boot strategy and safety-critical RTOS experience with pragmatic system programming for enterprise virtualization, and he’s known for creating maintainable, upstream-friendly solutions.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
physics Electronic & Cybernetic, physics Electronic & Cybernetic at Sapienza Università di RomaConservatory of Music "Santa Cecilia" (Rome)
English, Italian
Github Skills (10)
xapi10
cluster-api10
api10
apidoc10
clustering10
ocaml10
cluster-manager10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xapi-project/xen-api
Sep 2017 - Oct 2018
The Xapi Project's XenAPI Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the XenAPI server. Their work included implementing and adding functionality for cluster management, specifically creating pools and cluster hosts. This involved modifying existing files and adding new CLI commands. The contributions demonstrate a focus on expanding the API's capabilities and integrating new features within the XenAPI environment.
xenapixapi
stefanopanella/xapi-storage-plugins
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches, 10 comments in 6 months
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