Angelo Michele Failla (pallotron.linkedin@freaknet.org)

Current

Senior Deployment Engineer - Professional Services at Newbay Software
Staff Member, Geek, Hacktivist at FreakNet MediaLab and Dyne non-profit organizations

Past

Systems Administration, Security and Network consultant at MySelf
Senior Unix System and Network Administrator, Programmer, IT Consultant at Movia S.p.A. (former SPMC s.r.l.)
Embedded Engineeer (as freelance) at NEW COM

Unix Sysadmin and Network Administrator at ComputerLine
Developer and System Administrator at UZED@
E-learning expert at University of Catania
Developer at Infozoo Project

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Education

Università di Catania
I.T.I.S. "G. Marconi" - Catania

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Angelo Michele Failla (pallotron.linkedin@freaknet.org)’s Summary

Italian Unix Sysadmin currently located in Dublin.

I have got 9 years experience in managing and writing software for UNIX-like operating systems. I’ve started using those systems in 2000, same year in which I’ve started my university career, and I’m currently using them in my all-day activities. I feel those environments like my natural working habitat.

My non-working time is often spent collaborating actively with two open-source organizations called Freaknet.org and
Dyne.org. I consider myself a ”free software evangelist” for my contributions to those organizations. During these years I’ve
helped out projects like MuSE (http://muse.dyne.org), TBT (http://tbt.dyne.org), the Dyne:bolic Linux distro.

My professional career commenced during my university years in which I’ve started working for 2 years as a developer for a department of my faculty. I’ve then moved to a small Web Agency where I worked as LAMP developer and ccasionally as a sysadmin.

In 2004 I moved away from development to enter the sysadmin world. I believe it’s very important for both developers and system administrators to get experience on the opposite ﬁeld. I think all software developers need to spend
time working on systems administration so they can understand software from ’both ends’.

In 2004 I moved to a local ISP working as UNIX sysadmin. I was responsible for maintaining systems (DNS, Mail Server,
Web Server, network equipments, etc) and for internal/external support.

In 2005 I moved to a consultant company with oﬃces based in Catania, Rome and Milan, working on projects together with companies like Nokia IT, Vodafone IT, ATAC Roma, etc. I’ve the opportunity to also do some programing in kernel space writing some kernel modules for an embedded system based on the Linux kernel.

In early 2008 I’ve moved to Dublin, and I started working with NewBay Software Ltd as an UNIX Operations
Engineer.

Angelo Michele Failla (pallotron.linkedin@freaknet.org)’s Specialties:

- Linux (Xen/Vmware virtualization)
- Solaris (Zones,ZFS,IPMP,SMF and packages creation)
- All the main networking services (dns, mail, openldap, ...)
- Networking: vpn, firewalling, routing, PKI, hardening, cisco switches, multi tier archs
- Load Balancing: F5 BigIP LTM & GTM
- Nagios with SNMP support
- Tomcat and Java debugging
- Linux embedded and Kernel programming
- Database: Mysql, Postgresql
- Programming languages: C on UNIX, bash, Perl (i've published modules on CPAN.org)

Angelo Michele Failla (pallotron.linkedin@freaknet.org)’s Experience

Senior Deployment Engineer - Professional Services

Newbay Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

NewBay is an fast growing Irish company specialized in convergence between the mobile world and web2.0.

I'm currently a member of the the Operations Group, Deployment Team. We deploy, configure, integrate and support variuos mobile related multimedia multi-tier applications based on Unix/Solaris and Linux systems, Java/Tomcat based services, F5 BigIP Load Balancers and Cisco switching technology.

Some projects I've worked on:

* Myfaves for T-Mobile USA and T-Mobile International (Germany, Uk, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Austria).

* Myalbum for T-Mobile USA.
Staff Member, Geek, Hacktivist

FreakNet MediaLab and Dyne non-profit organizations

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2000 — Present (9 years 1 month)

--> FREAKNET.ORG - http://www.freaknet.org <--

Freaknet.org (http://www.freaknet.org) is one of the first italian hacklab.

It's is an open research & development laboratory accessible to anyone, we promote open source / free software technologies with workshops, technical pubblications, public speechs, and so on.

I'm currently a member of the core staff, doing some unix administrations of our servers located in austria and netherlands, and i'm also involved in a lot of projects.

--> DYNE.ORG - http://www.dyne.org <--

Since 2000 dyne.org is a network and a free software atelier gathering artisans of different kinds.
We produce free and open technologies, multimedia performances and workshops, researching the hybridation of various art and communication practices within the digital domain.
Systems Administration, Security and Network consultant

MySelf

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — July 2008 (7 years 7 months)

I work as a consultant and developer regarding various fields into Information Technology, such as:

- Networking, System Administration, Security;
- Embedded Developing for Linux embedded system;
Senior Unix System and Network Administrator, Programmer, IT Consultant

Movia S.p.A. (former SPMC s.r.l.)

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 5 months)

I was responsible of keeping up and running the whole company's network infrastructure located in 3 different cities: Catania-Rome-Milan.

I was also involved in various kind of projects which include:

Linux Kernel Module Programming (Digital/Analog GPIO management) on a Toradex Colbri Embedded system based on Intel ARM Xscale PXA270 CPU.

Worked as Perl developer in Teleca Solutions Italia SpA (now Ausystems).

Worked at the Vodafone Italia TestPlant (Milano), together with LogicaCMG employees, to customize korn shell backup procedures.

Member team of the Vodafone's PoC Web Gui project (from September 2005 to January 2006). Main duties: developers support, installation and configuration tasks on Solaris 9 operating system, CVS administration, shell scripting programming, installation, configuration, documentation writing.
Embedded Engineeer (as freelance)

NEW COM

(Computer Hardware industry)

July 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 7 months)

I'm responsible of maintaining a self made Linux operating system compiled from scratch used for embedded applications. This o.s. is based on Gentoo Linux:

- uClibc core libs (a glibc based system is also available);
- Xorg 6.8.0;
- VNC server;
- ssh;
- total disk space occupied: 60mb;
- tcl/tk interpreter;
- network capabilities;
- read only filesystem;
- busybox shell;
- serial console administration;

I wrote an ANSI C UNIX daemon called plcfetch, it talks with a PLC using a rs232 connection, storing information into a MS SQL Server using unixODBC.
Source available via CVS on http://cvs.hinezumilabs.org/viewcvs/plcfetch/
Unix Sysadmin and Network Administrator

ComputerLine

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

December 2004 — September 2005 (10 months)

Ordinary maintenance of ISP related services like DNS server, Web servers, FTP servers, etc.
Troubleshooting, technical support, dns domain maintenance.
Developer and System Administrator

UZED@

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2004 — December 2004 (10 months)

Worked as a L.A.M.P. developer (LAMP == Linux Apache Mysql PHP), and sysadmin.
E-learning expert

University of Catania

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; E-Learning industry)

January 2001 — December 2002 (2 years )

PHP developer into "Dipartimento d'Informatica e Telecomunicazioni - Facolta' di Ingegneria" involved into the ministry of the education's e-learning project named CampusOne.
Developer

Infozoo Project

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — March 2002 (1 year 3 months)

Worked as a Visual Basic coder, involved into a project named "Traccia". I wrote some drivers for allow communication between electronic balances (on RS232 serial environment) and the Infozoo's products.

Angelo Michele Failla (pallotron.linkedin@freaknet.org)’s Education

Università di Catania

not graduate , Computer Science , 1999 — 2005

Working in progress, maybe for ever... :)
I.T.I.S. "G. Marconi" - Catania

Perito Informatico ABACUS , Computer Science , 1994 — 1999