Hello, I am Paolo Mainardi, proud founder and CTO of Sparkfabrik, and Linux Foundation Europe advisory member.

Twin of Stefano. We started with computers at around five years old and have been working together ever since, which makes this less a career than a habit. Our big brother Sandro runs Sacchetti di Tessuto, the family company, making custom fabric packaging in Italy. He is the one of us who ships something you can actually hold.

My role is to drive the company toward innovation, by building cutting-edge and cloud-native web applications and doing Kubernetes consultancy at different levels, from cluster management to custom implementations; we are also CNCF Silver Member and Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP).

When I am not too busy with the company stuff, I like to contribute to open source projects, speaking and organizing conferences and actively participating to the community.

You can get in touch with me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@paolomainardi

My PGP key

This is my current PGP public key.

  • Fingerprint: 7175 CDC9 B3D8 395E 3F36 44BB A512 E1CF 8F32 2189
  • ID: 8686CBECDF05A89F:

The quickest way to get it:

shell
curl -sSL https://www.paolomainardi.com/paolomainardi.asc | gpg --import

You can also download the key.

Show the armored key
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Contact me.

You can contact me at paolo.mainardi[at]sparkfabrik.com.

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