Giulio Fidente

UNIX Systems Engineer, GNU advocate, Web2.0 enthusiast

Rome Area, Italy

Current
  • GLS Instructor at Red Hat
  • Developer at http://code.google.com/p/mlapd/
Past
  • Infrastructure Manager at dotMobi
  • QA in Workplace Portal and Collaboration division at IBM
  • System Administrator at Telecom Italia
  • System Engineer and J2EE Web Developer at Babel
  • Developer at CRUX PPC
  • Web Developer at ATS
Education
  • Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
  • VI Istituto Tecnico Industriale di Napoli
Connections
122 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Giulio Fidente’s Summary

Strong skills and experiences in implementation, test and design of UNIX based infrastructures. Deep understanding and knowledge of Web and Messaging protocols. I've frequently analyzed software defects and drove developers on the right solution, or worked directly on the code.
I'm a long standing GNU advocate who strongly believe in the freedom cause.

Giulio Fidente’s Specialties:

Linux, NetBSD administration and internals.
Linux HA clustering and Virtualization.
J2EE, JavaScript, Python, Ruby programming languages.
RESTful web applications design.
Agile development methodologies.


Giulio Fidente’s Experience

  • GLS Instructor

    Red Hat

    (Public Company; RHT; Computer Software industry)

    March 2008Present (1 year 9 months)

    Trainer and editor for Red Hat's training offering at https://www.redhat.com/training/
    During the year 2009 and working with Red Hat I've obtained the RHCA certification.

  • Developer

    http://code.google.com/p/mlapd/

    (Computer Software industry)

    March 2007Present (2 years 9 months)

    MLAPD is a Mailing List access manager which uses LDAP to check for user's rights to post messages. It's designed to work in conjunction with Postfix as an Access Policy Delegation daemon.

  • Infrastructure Manager

    dotMobi

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2007March 2008 (6 months)

    Design, test and implementation of a secure, geographical, consolidated Linux based infrastructure. Environment monitoring and Data Center management. Responsible for maximum uptime for the IT infrastructure. Reference figure for the infrastructure technical partners. Contribute to the ongoing development of IT infrastructure. Production of reports for networks and systems. Design and enhancement of IT processes procedures.

  • QA in Workplace Portal and Collaboration division

    IBM

    (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2007September 2007 (5 months)

    Deployment and testing of IBM's web collaboration systems mainly built on Portal. Infrastructures were usually built on Red Hat/Windows/AIX/Solaris and involved usage of DB2/Oracle/MSSQL and LDAP.

  • System Administrator

    Telecom Italia

    (Privately Held; TI; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2006May 2007 (8 months)

    Deployment, test and administration of messaging platforms built with the purpose of allowing users to exchange "certified emails", as described by the internet draft at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gennai-smime-cnipa-pec-02

  • System Engineer and J2EE Web Developer

    Babel

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2005May 2007 (2 years 1 month)

    Integration, deploy and maintenance of service oriented platforms. Babel is partner of Red Hat, Oracle and one of the excellence partners of Sun in the messaging area. During the year 2006 and working with Babel I've obtained the RHCE certification.

    Engineering and development on the J2EE platform of web applications frequently integrated with ldap, sql, imap (ajax through scriptaculous/json libraries). My objective was mainly to design the architecture, help project managers in the implementation of customers' offerings and to lead the delivery from a technical perspective.

  • Developer

    CRUX PPC

    (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

    January 2004January 2007 (3 years 1 month)

    Crux for PowerPC is a port for the powerpc platform of an i686 optimized GNU/Linux distribution. I've been a core developer and tester of Crux for PowerPC. During the development I managed to work on some RS/6000, Pegasos2 systems and more in genereal on various PREP/CHRP computers.

  • Web Developer

    ATS

    (Public Company; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)

    20022005 (3 years )

    Design and maintenance of public web sites usually made up mostly of static html pages and/or few php scripts.


Giulio Fidente’s Education

  • Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'

    Computer Engineering 20002007

  • VI Istituto Tecnico Industriale di Napoli

    Electronic and Automation 19952000


Additional Information

Giulio Fidente’s Websites:

Giulio Fidente’s Interests:

music, internet, linux, science

Giulio Fidente’s Groups:

MLAPD http://code.google.com/p/mlapd/, Crux for PowerPC http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk, NaLUG Napoli Linux User Group http://www.nalug.it/, Python Individuals

  •    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
  •    Python Community
  •    Free Software Foundation
  •    DB2 Professionals
  •    Linux Expert
  •    Gnome User
  •    Generation Red Hat
  •    Italian Networking Project
  •    FOSS Professionals
  •    High Performance & Super Computing
  •    Associazione NaLUG - Napoli Linux Users Group

Giulio Fidente’s Honors:

RHCA certification number 804006254022826; https://www.redhat.com/training/certification/verify/


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