Giulio Fidente

Current

GLS Instructor at Red Hat
Developer at http://code.google.com/p/mlapd/

Past

Infrastructure Manager at dotMobi
Collaboration Systems Tester at IBM
System Administrator at Telecom Italia

System Engineer and J2EE Web Developer at Babel
Developer at cruxppc.sunsite.dk
Web Developer at ATS

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Education

Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
VI Istituto Tecnico Industriale di Napoli

Recommended

6 people have recommended Giulio

Connections

98 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

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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, Solaris, NetBSD administration and internals.
SMTP/NNTP/POP/IMAP/XMPP messaging protocols.
Apache httpd/tomcat/geronimo, JBoss AppServer, IBM WebSphere, lighttpd, orbited, nginx.
SUN/RedHat/IBM LDAP server(s).
MySQL, DB2.
RedHat Cluster Suite/Global File System, NFS, AFS.
XEN, Linux HA clustering.
J2EE, JavaScript, Python, Ruby.
REST applications, SOA architectures.
Agile development methodologies.

Giulio Fidente’s Experience

GLS Instructor

Red Hat

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — Present (9 months)

Instructor for the red hat's offering of courses and certifications at https://www.redhat.com/training/
Developer

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

(Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

MLAPD is a Maling List manager which uses LDAP to control lists access and is designed to work as a Postfix Access Policy Delegation agent, it's written in Python.
Infrastructure Manager

dotMobi

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

October 2007 — March 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.
Collaboration Systems Tester

IBM

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — September 2007 (5 months)

Systems Tester for the Workplace Portal and Collaboration division. Deployment and testing, on different architectures built using RedHat/Windows/AIX/Solaris plus DB2/Oracle/MSSQL and LDAP, of web products integrated with WebSphere/Portal. I'm part of the GreaterIBM group http://www.ibm.com/ibm/greateribm/.
System Administrator

Telecom Italia

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2006 — May 2007 (8 months)

Deploy and administration of messaging platforms built for certified email (PKI/SMIME) using Postfix, Courier-IMAP, Sun Directory Server, Perdition Proxy, Sophos PureMessage, OracleDB and a self written Java SMTP proxy filter.
System Engineer and J2EE Web Developer

Babel

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Integration, deploy and maintenance of service oriented platforms. Strong experience on Sun and RedHat LDAP servers, Sun JES messaging server, Apache httpd, Apache tomcat, Sun webserver, Postfix, sendmail, Sophos puremessage, MySQL/Oracle. Deep knowledge of all the messaging protocols (SMTP/NNTP/POP/IMAP/XMPP). Babel is partner of Sun, RedHat and Oracle and is one of the excellence partners of Sun Italy for the messaging infrastructures. During the year 2006 and working with Babel I've obtained the RHCE certification.

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

cruxppc.sunsite.dk

(Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — January 2007 (3 years 1 month)

Crux for PowerPC is a port for the powerpc platform of an i686 optimized GNU/Linux distribution. I'm a core developer and beta tester of Crux for PowerPC. During the development I've also worked on RS/6000 and Pegasos2 systems to support PREP/CHRP computers.
Web Developer

ATS

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years)

Development and design of static HTML web pages sometimes populated with PHP scripts.

Giulio Fidente’s Education

Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'

Computer Engineering 2000 — 2007
VI Istituto Tecnico Industriale di Napoli

Electronic and Automation 1995 — 2000

Additional Information

Giulio Fidente’s Websites:

My Blog

Giulio Fidente’s Interests:

music, web technologies, linux, social networking

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