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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: "Contributor Spotlight: Francesco Canovai" |
| 3 | +date: 2025-05-21T13:51:43+02:00 |
| 4 | +draft: false |
| 5 | +image: |
| 6 | + url: fcanovai.jpg |
| 7 | + attribution: |
| 8 | +author: fdrees |
| 9 | +tags: |
| 10 | + - testing |
| 11 | + - github |
| 12 | + - kubernetes |
| 13 | + - postgresql |
| 14 | + - open-source |
| 15 | +summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community. |
| 16 | + Today we meet Francesco Canovai, Senior Software Development Engineer at EDB, |
| 17 | + and CloudNativePG maintainer." |
| 18 | +--- |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +# Contributor Spotlight: |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +Building and maintaining and open source project takes a village. In a |
| 23 | +mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our |
| 24 | +maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Today it's my great pleasure to introduce [Francesco Canovai](https://github.com/fcanovai/), |
| 27 | +my colleage at EDB. Francesco is a Senior Software Development Engineer, |
| 28 | +living in Prato, Italy. No point asking when he first found out about |
| 29 | +CloudNativePG: he was in the room when/where the project started! The |
| 30 | +first commit with his name on it is the initial suite of end-to-end tests. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +One dream he has for the project is to rework the tests so they are driven |
| 33 | +by a single unified configuration file, instead of the Frankenstein approach |
| 34 | +in current use entailing GH actions, Makefiles, shell scripts,... If only |
| 35 | +there were unlimited hours in the day! |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +Francesco got into technology in the first place playing videogames (of the |
| 38 | +rpg and grand strategy genre). At 15 he was sure he wanted to study computer |
| 39 | +science, and in his early twenties he really wanted to teach maths. It's |
| 40 | +never too late to switch, Francesco, I don't think the world is saturated for |
| 41 | +math teachers! |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +Today what he's really interested in, is the human side of tech and open |
| 44 | +source: "It amazes me to see where things go when multiple people work in |
| 45 | +the same general direction, even if each one's end goal is different". |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +If you wanted to get in touch with Francesco, you can find him in the |
| 48 | +CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace, or on [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/fcanovai.bsky.social), |
| 49 | +[Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@fcanovai), or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescocanovai/). |
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