Gianluca Varisco

Current

Associate Web Developer, International Operations at Red Hat
Mirror Wrangler at Cherokee Project
Marketing manager and contributor at Security e-Book Project

System Administrator - JBoss WS (Web Services) at Red Hat
Contributor at Fedora Project
Italian Community Ambassador at One Laptop Per Child

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Past

Intern - Web Engineering at Red Hat
Content Writer - oneOpenSource.it at HTML.it
Highly Open Participation Student at Google

Intern - Global Professional Services at Red Hat
Content Writer - OSSblog.it at Blogo.it

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Education

Università degli Studi di Milano
ITIS Molinari

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Gianluca Varisco’s Summary

RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer)
Cert N° 805007044027706
Verify at https://www.redhat.com/training/certification/verify/

Gianluca Varisco’s Specialties:

Community Management, Open Source, Linux Development, Web Development, Team Building, Consultancy, Journalism, Writing, Negotiation

Gianluca Varisco’s Experience

Associate Web Developer, International Operations

Red Hat

(Public Company; RHT; Computer Software industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Mirror Wrangler

Cherokee Project

(Computer Software industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)
Marketing manager and contributor

Security e-Book Project

(Computer Software industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

I'm the marketing/PR manager of Security e-Book, a project aiming on creating a free publication on security architectures and implementations, using the concept behind wikipedia.

The project is non-commercial and follows the Creative Commons license.

The web site is: http://ebook.sikurezza.org/
System Administrator - JBoss WS (Web Services)

Red Hat

(Public Company; RHT; Computer Software industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Contributor

Fedora Project

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

I'm a Fedora ambassador for Italy. My goal is to spread the word about Fedora project, organize meetings and know people.
Italian Community Ambassador

One Laptop Per Child

(Non-Profit; Computer Hardware industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

I promote the importance of empowering children with learning tools and Internet connectivity through the One Laptop Per Child project, a non-profit organization created by Nicholas Negroponte and others from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture and distribute laptop computers that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education.

In my spare time, I do QA tests for its Fedora software stack.
Intern - Web Engineering

Red Hat

(Public Company; RHT; Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 10 months)
Content Writer - oneOpenSource.it

HTML.it

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

March 2008 — June 2008 (4 months)
Highly Open Participation Student

Google

(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

November 2007 — February 2008 (4 months)

Google's first contest to introduce pre-university students to the many contributions that make open source software development possible. I produced a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials and user experience research for the ten participating organizations.
Intern - Global Professional Services

Red Hat

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

June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
Content Writer - OSSblog.it

Blogo.it

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

November 2006 — January 2007 (3 months)