Hi everyone, my name is Giovanni, and I recently joined Red Hat and the Debezium team.
The majority of my career has been spent in companies powered by microservices architectures, navigating different waves of technologies and migration challenges over time.
On this journey, I had the opportunity to work on the lastminute.com pricing engine for flights across meta-search and direct channels, implementing dynamic pricing algorithms to ensure accuracy and scalability under high traffic conditions. Furthermore, I worked on integrating multiple Global Distribution Systems (GDS), building reliable and high-performance systems to enhance booking and pricing capabilities.
Prior to this experience, I worked at BMC Software on capacity planning solutions for on-premises and cloud infrastructure, handling the ingestion of large volumes of metrics analyzed by statistical algorithms for forecasting.
Across all these experiences, a common theme has been working with scalable and distributed systems (sometimes transactional) leveraging different technologies that are ultimately based on the same fundamental principles. This realization led me to join the Debezium team, where I’m excited to dive deeper into distributed systems, their underlying principles, and the intricacies of change data capture.
In a past life, I spent time in the Aerospace & Defense industry, conducting research on cyber threats for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In particular, I worked on time series analysis algorithms for navigation systems at the Italian Aerospace Research Centre and was a consultant for Agusta Westland (now Leonardo Helicopters), contributing to the development of a common platform for cockpit systems.
Beyond my technical work, I co-organize the Ticino Software Craft meetup, where we exchange knowledge, discuss best practices, and explore new perspectives on software. I believe that continuous learning and sharing ideas are key to growth in our industry.
Outside of tech, I enjoy watching films, particularly sci-fi and cyberpunk ones. I’m fascinated by how these genres explore the intersection of technology, society, and human nature.
--Giovanni
About Debezium
Debezium is an open source distributed platform that turns your existing databases into event streams, so applications can see and respond almost instantly to each committed row-level change in the databases. Debezium is built on top of Kafka and provides Kafka Connect compatible connectors that monitor specific database management systems. Debezium records the history of data changes in Kafka logs, so your application can be stopped and restarted at any time and can easily consume all of the events it missed while it was not running, ensuring that all events are processed correctly and completely. Debezium is open source under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Get involved
We hope you find Debezium interesting and useful, and want to give it a try. Follow us on Twitter @debezium, chat with us on Zulip, or join our mailing list to talk with the community. All of the code is open source on GitHub, so build the code locally and help us improve ours existing connectors and add even more connectors. If you find problems or have ideas how we can improve Debezium, please let us know or log an issue.
