Mattia Lavacca
Lanzo Torinese, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMattia Lavacca is a software engineer with six years of experience focused on cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes, now a Senior Software Engineer at Kong based in Turin, Italy. As a Gateway API maintainer and contributor to Kong's Kubernetes Ingress Controller, he helped adapt the project to Gateway API v0.5.1, improve managed Gateway handling, and add ARM/multi-arch image support. His background at Kubermatic and Politecnico di Torino includes building controllers, webhooks and migration tooling—most notably out-of-tree CCM/CSI migration paths, multi-arch CI pipelines, and cloud-init bootstrapping across major cloud providers. He’s an active open-source contributor who also improves API conformance tests, virtual-kubelet integrations (Liqo) and pragmatic DevOps automation like docker buildx fixes and registry auth. Known for bridging backend engineering and DevOps, he often focuses on reproducible infrastructure and subtle automation (for example, mutating webhooks that manage virtual node tolerations).
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Politecnico di Torino
Github Skills (42)
kubernetes10
vsphere10
dockerce10
ingress-controller10
docker10
gateways10
testing10
ca-api-gateway10
aws-api-gateway10
microsoft-azure10
containerization10
dockers10
automation10
amazon-api-gateway10
containerd10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
liqotech/liqo
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Enable dynamic and seamless Kubernetes multi-cluster topologies
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:225 reviews, 127 commits, 150 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mattia's commits focus on improving and refining the Liqo project's Kubernetes provider, including code linting and refactoring. The user implemented a mutating webhook to manage tolerations for the virtual nodes, which enhances the system's security. They also added features, such as the ability to pass environment variables to the virtual kubelet.
cloud-computingmulti-clusterclustersresource-sharingkubernetes-clusters
kubermatic/kubermatic
May 2021 - Apr 2022
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform - the Central Kubernetes Management Platform For Any Infrastructure
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:71 reviews, 32 commits, 32 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mattia primarily contributed to the repository by modifying the `hack/release-docker-images.sh` and `hack/ci/` scripts, indicating involvement in the build and deployment process. Their commits focused on integrating and fixing issues related to `docker buildx`, including multi-architecture image builds and the removal of buildx configurations. Furthermore, they also worked on configurations to authenticate with Quay registry. These changes suggest a focus on containerization and CI/CD pipeline improvements.
kubermatic-kubernetes-platformkubermaticcluster-apiinfrastructurek8s
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