Software Architect and Information Technology Consultant and Contractor
Brazil
- Current
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- Senior System and Network Architect at Ideas to Marketing / Publicis
- Developer at Ideas to Marketing / Publicis
- Developer at Debian
- Senior System and Network Architect at QXMedia
- Past
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- Researcher at CNR Research Area Library (Italian National Council of Research)
- System administrator at BJMaster
- System Architect and Administrator at Retitudine s.r.l.
- Linux Administrator at University of Bologna / Computer Science Dept.
- Python and C Developer at Kelyan SMC
- Python and C Developer at Altafuente s.r.l.
- Education
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- Università di Bologna
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Cosimo Alfarano’s Summary
Italian self-employee, working in Europe and linving in Brazil.
Expertise in:
TCP/IP network architecture, specially at ISO/OSI's Layer 2/3 and upper (TCP/IP).
Unix development.
Internet oriented software architecture.
Object Oriented programing with Design Patterns, Agile Methodologies, UML.
C, Java and Python programming languages.
Strong preference in the use of Free/Open Source Software and Open Standards.
VoIP (SIP and Jingle, using asterisk and freeswitch) and instant communication over IP (i.e., XMPP/Jabber using ejabberd) are among my current interests.
High availabilities linux clusters. Advanced linux configurations.
Cosimo Alfarano’s Specialties:
TCP/IP networks, Linux, Unix, FLOSS (Free/Libre/OpenSource Software), C, Python, Java, Object Oriented Programming, OOP, Software Architecture, Agile, Scrum, Design Pattern, High Availability, UML
Cosimo Alfarano’s Experience
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Senior System and Network Architect
Ideas to Marketing / Publicis
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Network and System architect and administration for intranet and internet published linux servers.
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Developer
Ideas to Marketing / Publicis
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
mainly Java and Python developer, using tomcat, hibernate, spring, zope frameworks, UML diagrams.
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Developer
Debian
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
October 2000 — Present (8 years 10 months)
The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. [ from http://www.debian.org/intro/about ]
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Senior System and Network Architect
QXMedia
(Internet industry)
April 2000 — Present (9 years 4 months)
I coordinated all the technical projects related to network and Unix servers.
Chief administrator of all company's servers, DNS, Web Services (HTTP, PHP, PERL, PYTHON, Content Management Systems, ColdFusion), emails (SMTP, Authentication, IMAP,POP, WebMail). -
Researcher
CNR Research Area Library (Italian National Council of Research)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Research industry)
April 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 7 months)
Research on image watermarking applied on digital documents.
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System administrator
BJMaster
(Internet industry)
June 2006 — January 2007 (8 months)
Linux administrator for some company's servers running web services
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System Architect and Administrator
Retitudine s.r.l.
(Internet industry)
April 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 9 months)
Linux and FLOSS (Free/Libre/OpenSource Software) based systems architect.
Pre-sale engineer. -
Linux Administrator
University of Bologna / Computer Science Dept.
(Educational Institution; Internet industry)
1999 — 2004 (5 years)
System Administrator (GNU/Linux) for some i386 and Sun boxes for the Student network. It was a non-profit position, being a Computer Science dept. student (caristudenti project).
I got a wide expertise on IPv4/IPv6 internetworking and Unix/Linux systems.
From 2000 to 2002:
- Cluster's super-administrator (coordinator for 20~ project's members/admins)
- Mail Exchanger / DNS Zone admin for students.cs.unibo.it.
From 2002 to 2005 as a advisor/senior student and project member. -
Python and C Developer
Kelyan SMC
(Internet industry)
January 2002 — October 2002 (10 months)
Python and C developer for a Certification Authority software.
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Python and C Developer
Altafuente s.r.l.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 4 months)
Python and C developer for a Certification Authority software.
See Also: Kelyan SMC position
Cosimo Alfarano’s Education
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Università di Bologna
Computer Science
- Activities and Societies:
- caristudenti project
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Cosimo Alfarano’s Interests:
network architecture, software architecture, voip, systems interoperability, FLOSS, data structures, design patterns, open formats, philosophy, sociology, neural networks
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