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+title: "Contributor Spotlight: Francesco Canovai"
+date: 2025-05-21T13:51:43+02:00
+draft: false
+image:
+    url: fcanovai.jpg
+    attribution:
+author: fdrees
+tags:
+ - testing
+ - github
+ - kubernetes
+ - postgresql
+ - open-source
+summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
+  Today we meet Francesco Canovai, Senior Software Development Engineer at EDB, 
+  and CloudNativePG maintainer." 
+---
+
+# Contributor Spotlight: 
+
+Building and maintaining and 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.
+
+Today it's my great pleasure to introduce [Francesco Canovai](https://github.com/fcanovai/), 
+my colleage at EDB. Francesco is a Senior Software Development Engineer, 
+living in Prato, Italy. No point asking when he first found out about 
+CloudNativePG: he was in the room when/where the project started! The 
+first commit with his name on it is the initial suite of end-to-end tests.
+
+One dream he has for the project is to rework the tests so they are driven 
+by a single unified configuration file, instead of the Frankenstein approach 
+in current use entailing GH actions, Makefiles, shell scripts,... If only 
+there were unlimited hours in the day!
+
+Francesco got into technology in the first place playing videogames (of the 
+rpg and grand strategy genre). At 15 he was sure he wanted to study computer 
+science, and in his early twenties he really wanted to teach maths. It's 
+never too late to switch, Francesco, I don't think the world is saturated for 
+math teachers! 
+
+Today what he's really interested in, is the human side of tech and open 
+source: "It amazes me to see where things go when multiple people work in 
+the same general direction, even if each one's end goal is different".
+
+If you wanted to get in touch with Francesco, you can find him in the 
+CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace, or on [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/fcanovai.bsky.social), 
+[Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@fcanovai), or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescocanovai/).