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
  • System Engineer and J2EE Web Developer at Babel
  • Developer at cruxppc.sunsite.dk
  • Web Developer at ATS
Education
  • Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
  • VI Istituto Tecnico Industriale di Napoli
Connections
108 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; 1001-5000 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)

    March 2008Present (1 year 5 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 2007Present (2 years 5 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 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.

  • Collaboration Systems Tester

    IBM

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2007September 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 2006May 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 2005May 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 2004January 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)

    20022005 (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 20002007

  • VI Istituto Tecnico Industriale di Napoli

    Electronic and Automation 19952000


Additional Information

Giulio Fidente’s Websites:

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

Giulio Fidente’s Honors:

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


Giulio Fidente’s Contact Settings

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