Cosimo Alfarano

Current

Senior System and Network Administrator at Publicis Dialog
Developer at Debian
Senior System and Network Architect at QXMedia

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Past

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.

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Education

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 and Agile Methodoligies enthusiast using mainly C and Python.

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

Cosimo Alfarano’s Experience

Senior System and Network Administrator

Publicis Dialog

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; PUB; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2008 — Present (10 months)

Network and System administrator for intranet and internet published linux servers.
Developer

Debian

(Non-Profit; Internet industry)

October 2000 — Present (8 years 1 month)

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 ]
Senior System and Network Architect

QXMedia

(Internet industry)

April 2000 — Present (8 years 7 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.
Copyright protection analysis using watermarking techniques.
System administrator

BJMaster

(Internet industry)

June 2006 — January 2007 (8 months)

Linux administrator for some company's servers running web services
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.
See Also: Altafuente s.r.l. position.
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

Università di Bologna

Computer Science

Activities and Societies:

caristudenti project

Additional Information

Cosimo Alfarano’s Websites:

Cosimo Alfarano’s Interests:

network architecture, software architecture, voip, systems interoperability, FLOSS, data structures, design patterns, open formats, philosophy, sociology, neural networks