Alice Frosi
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Germany
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Top SchoolAlice Frosi is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with eight years of experience building Linux, container, Kubernetes and cloud-native virtualization solutions from Germany. She specializes in backend and DevOps work and is an active open-source contributor to prominent projects like kubevirt and the containerized-data-importer. Her contributions include implementing SCSI persistent reservations, improving volume hotplugging and migration workflows, and refactoring build and import tooling—unifying nbdkit usage and migrating to the official libnbd Go bindings to boost maintainability. Before Red Hat she developed Linux and container solutions for IBM Z and has hands-on experience with GPU work and cross‑architecture environments. Outside work she enjoys drawing and learning new technologies, and thrives in international, collaborative teams.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Ingegneria informatica, Bachelor's degree, Ingegneria informatica at Politecnico di MilanoMaster of Science - MS Information technology, Master of Science - MS Information technology at University of Stuttgart
English, French, Italian, German
Github Skills (21)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
storages10
testing10
storage10
scsi10
go10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pod10
plugin9
dockerce9
kvm9
plug-ins9
dockers9
docker9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/kubevirt
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1174 reviews, 84 commits, 146 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alice Frosi's contributions focused on enhancing the virtualization features within the Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime (kubevirt/kubevirt) repository, specifically around the implementation of SCSI persistent reservations. Her work involved the addition and refinement of features related to volume migration, hotplugging volumes, and the associated testing. Moreover, she also added support to enable a new feature gate for the persistent reservation features. The updates include improvements in the code, unit tests, and functional tests, including for the device plugin. The user made changes across both code and documentation, including the related tests to improve the code quality.
apivmsmachineslibvirtruntime
kubevirt/containerized-data-importer
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Data Import Service for kubernetes, designed with kubevirt in mind.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alice made several commits focused on updating dependencies and build processes for the project, including migrating to Fedora 33 and updating builder images. They refactored the nbdkit usage, unifying its application for both http and vddk importers, leading to a more streamlined and maintainable codebase. Additionally, the user contributed to the transition to using the official libnbd go bindings. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the build process, dependency management, and underlying infrastructure.
kubevirtvmskubernetesminddata-import
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