Giulio Fidente is an accomplished Engineering Manager at Red Hat, leading a team dedicated to developing open source cloud software for storage services and integrating it into various Red Hat products since March 2008. Fidente has a strong background in software engineering, particularly with OpenStack, and has contributed to projects through coding, code reviews, and gatekeeping. Previous roles include providing consulting services for IT solutions across Europe and the Middle East, instructing Red Hat certifications, and managing a Linux-based infrastructure at dotMobi. Earlier experience includes working as a QA specialist at IBM, as a Systems Engineer and Java Developer at Babel, and as a Web Developer at ATS. Fidente holds a certification as a Red Hat Certified Architect, and has pursued education at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.