Gianugo Rabellino, is the Senior Director of Open Source Communities at MS Open Tech. With more than 20 years of experience in the open source community, Gianugo brings a deep understanding of open technologies and platforms to his role as Senior Director of Open Source Communities at MS Open Tech. He is charged with promoting the team’s broad engagement with developer communities to help create new business opportunities using Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies.
Gianugo has also been an active member of the Apache Software Foundation since 1999, where he currently serves as vice president of the Apache XML Project Management Committee. Additionally, he assists on a number of projects as a mentor through the Apache Incubator, and speaks at conferences around the world about open development.
Previously, Gianugo was the founder and CEO of Sourcesense, the leading open source services company in Europe, where he drove sustained double-digit growth to expand its operations across Italy, the Netherlands and the UK.
Gianugo has also held a variety of senior management roles at Pro-netics, Ksolutions, and Bibop Research where he was responsible for the software development and system/network administration groups and worked with several customers including Sun, IBM, Oracle, ISP and the Apache Software Foundation.
As an open source technical and policy consultant, he co-founded the first official Linux association in Italy, elevating Linux and open source development to the mainstream within that region.
He received his undergraduate degree from Liceo Classico Gabriello Chiabrera and his graduate degree from Universita degli Studi di Genova.