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+title: "Contributor Spotlight: Gabriele Quaresima"
+date: 2025-09-11
+draft: false
+image:
+    url: gabrieleq.png
+    attribution:
+authors:
+ - fdrees
+tags: 
+ - linux
+ - modernize
+ - kubernetes
+ - postgresql
+ - open-source
+ - spotlight
+summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
+  Today we meet Gabriele Quaresima, Staff Software Engineer at EDB, where he 
+  builds products on top of CloudNativePG." 
+---
+
+Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village. In a
+mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our
+maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.
+
+Gabriele Quaresima ([gabriele-wolfox](https://github.com/gabriele-wolfox) on GitHub) is a Staff Software Engineer 
+at EDB, where he builds products on top of CloudNativePG. When he joined the 
+company, he immediately started to work with the CloudNativePG team. The open 
+source operator and the closed source ones running on top of it represent his 
+learning path and entry point to Kubernetes and the PostgreSQL world.
+
+Gabriele now feels at home in the PostgreSQL and the Kubernetes communities. 
+"I attended several PGDays and KCD / CND (Kubernetes Community Days / Cloud 
+Native Days) events as a speaker and attendee both, and I really enjoyed it!"
+
+His first contribution to CloudNativePG was [feat: customize labels and 
+annotations for the service account #1105](https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/pull/1105), regarding customization 
+of labels and annotations for the service account. But reviewing PRs opened 
+by others has been the main way Gabriele has contributed to the project - at 
+the same time it has been the thing that contributed most to his own development as 
+well. 
+
+Given a magic wand, the one thing Gabriele would like to improve is the project 
+adopting tools like [modernize](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/gopls/internal/analysis/modernize/cmd/modernize) and new linters to improve the codebase.
+
+How he got interested in technology is a familiar story. "I started playing 
+with my Commodore 64 at 5 years old. I spent at least 1 to 2 hours in front of 
+a monitor from an early age on." Gabriele then started using Linux at University, 
+and discovered the world of open source. His dream however was to become a writer 
+and win the Nobel Prize, so exactly how he got into software engineering is fuzzy. 
+
+"I have always loved doing nerdy stuff, like playing board games, attending World 
+Championship of sudoku and logic puzzles, but I guess playing saxophones and flutes 
+is currently the hobby I am wrapped up in."
+
+If you wanted to get in touch with Gabriele, you can find him in the 
+CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace, or on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriele-quaresima). You can 
+follow the CloudNativePG project on [Bluesky](https://cloudnativepg.bsky.social) and [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@CloudNativePG) too!