Federico Simoncelli
Vice President, Software Engineering at Red Hat
Pesaro, Marche, Italy
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Top SchoolFederico Simoncelli is a Senior Director of Software Engineering based in Pesaro, Italy, with nearly two decades of hands-on experience and over 25 years of broader industry involvement driving cloud-native and virtualization platforms. At Red Hat he leads engineering portfolios around OpenShift, Telco, container-native virtualization and KubeVirt, blending strategic leadership with deep systems-level expertise. A pragmatic backend engineer by training, he has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like the Kubernetes API and core cloud tooling, improving node and container metadata, and has a history of refactoring and hardening server frameworks (e.g., goftp). Federico’s work spans virtualization management (oVirt), cloud SDKs and Kubernetes clients, reflecting a rare combination of infrastructure architecture, DevOps rigor, and maintenance-focused code craftsmanship. He pairs an engineering computer science foundation from the University of Bologna with a knack for turning complex platform requirements into maintainable, production-ready implementations.
19 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaLiceo Scientifico G. Torelli
Italian, English
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Github Skills (43)
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
kubernetes10
docker10
glance10
kubernetes-apiserver10
api-design10
restful-api10
rails10
nodemanager10
containerization10
dockers10
java10
ruby10
javas10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
woorea/openstack-java-sdk
Mar 2013 - Oct 2017
OpenStack Java SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:94 commits, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Federico contributed significantly to the OpenStack Java SDK, primarily focusing on the Glance client. They implemented new examples for the Glance module, fixed methods within the Glance client for image listing, and added support for the RESTEasy connector. The user also refactored the codebase by utilizing the ServiceLoader for connector selection and moved to the new model of OpenStack client.
javaopenstack
ManageIQ/kubeclient
Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
A Ruby client for Kubernetes REST API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 97 commits, 98 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Federico primarily focused on enhancing the `kubeclient` library. Their contributions include adding features for watching Kubernetes entities, improving testing, fixing regular expressions, and refactoring code to align with RuboCop standards. They also added support for Kubernetes endpoints, service accounts, SSL connections, and implemented improvements to prevent read timeouts during watches. The user also introduced improvements such as the addition of Travis CI and added version bumping.
kubernetesrestrest-apiruby-client
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