Community

I believe technology grows best when knowledge is shared openly, and communities are empowered to lead. Over the past two decades, I’ve invested significant time in open-source governance, mentorship, and hands-on contributions across multiple projects and ecosystems.

Governance

I’ve been a member of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) from December 2024 to December 2025, the highest technical decision-making body in the Fedora Project. In this role, I review and approve every significant technical change to Fedora — changes that ultimately flow into future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.

During my tenure as a Fedora Contributor, I’ve successfully proposed and driven three accepted changes to the Fedora distribution: Fedora Sway Spin, X.org-less Sericea, and Fedora Atomic Desktop. I’ve also pushed for policy reforms, including a new policy around Golang packages ownership, and collaborated to improve how Golang CVEs are handled in Fedora.

In the Kubernetes project, I serve as an Italian documentation approver (sig-docs-it-owners), responsible for reviewing and approving pull requests to the official Kubernetes documentation. I led the Italian translation effort for the Kubernetes 1.24 release.

Industry Impact

In 2024, I co-proposed to IBM the idea of partnering with Microsoft to allow GitHub Actions to run natively on IBM Power. The proposal gained traction rapidly: more than 124 IBM customers voted in support, which led IBM to evaluate and ultimately implement the initiative. GitHub Actions on IBM Power became a reality on 19 May 2025.

A diagram I contributed to the Kubernetes documentation was used in the NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance (page 3), where I was credited in the footnotes.

I co-developed a ransomware-resistant backup architecture using OpenShift, OADP, and ACM, which was published as an official Red Hat Portfolio Architecture — a reference design used by customers and partners worldwide.

Program Committees

Beyond speaking at conferences, I regularly serve as a reviewer, advisory board member, and track leader, evaluating and curating submissions for major technical events.

Track Leader

Advisory Board Member / Reviewer

Mentorship

I’ve mentored over 30 technologists throughout my career — across roles, geographies, and seniority levels — helping them grow into contributors, speakers, and technical leaders.

As a Fedora packager sponsor, I’ve directly mentored and sponsored multiple new packagers into the Fedora community.

Beyond the Fedora community, I regularly mentor colleagues and community members on topics such as career development, open-source contributions, certification strategy, and technical leadership. Several mentees have achieved promotions, earned certifications, delivered their first conference talks, or made their first open-source contributions as a direct result of our work together.

Mentoring is one of the most rewarding parts of what I do. I focus on helping people build confidence alongside competence, whether that means guiding someone through their first package review, preparing them for a conference talk, or navigating a career transition. I see it as a way to pay forward the guidance I was fortunate to receive when I needed it most.

Open Source Contributions

Fedora

I’ve been part of the Fedora community since January 2010. Over the years, I’ve contributed as an ambassador, packager, packaging mentor, and community leader.

• Maintainer or co-maintainer of over 2'000 packages (hundreds as primary maintainer)
• Core maintainer of Fedora Sway Spin and Fedora Sway Atomic
• Italian Community Leader (2015–2016)
• Organized 2 Fedora Release Parties (Fedora 21 and 23)
• Invited to speak at 3 editions of Flock (2016, 2023, 2025)
• Hundreds of badges earned

Ansible

Contributor to the Ansible ecosystem since 2016, with 159 commits merged into ansible/ansible and many more across related projects. I’m also the third-highest contributor to the Automation Good Practices guide (hosted on GitHub with 180+ stars), a collection of Ansible best practices widely used by practitioners across the industry.

Kubernetes

Italian documentation approver and lead for the 1.24 release translation. Contributor to documentation and diagrams, including work adopted by the NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance.

Wikimedia

Active contributor with over 24,000 edits. As a bot developer, I’ve contributed more than 650,000 automated edits. Creator of the Lists Project, a tool that enables Wikipedians to generate lists of wiki pages from SQL queries.

OpenStreetMap

Contributor since 2008 with over 1,500 edits as a mapper. Developed multiple tools to assist the community during the 2012 license migration.

Events

Beyond speaking at conferences, I’ve organized community events including Fedora Release Parties and local meetups, and have been invited to Flock — Fedora’s annual contributor conference — three times (2016, 2023, 2025) to present on the progress and future plans of the communities I help lead.

Others

Over the last 20+ years, I have contributed more than 30k times to various projects on GitHub, GitLab, and many other code forges.