Adrian Silva Franco

Current

Man-At-Infrastructure at Visualtis
Technology Facilitation at Ageda (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

Infrastructure Facilitation at Jimenez Godoy
Systems research and integration at Intenziona
System Technician at Informática para Pymes Murcianas

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Education

Universitat de València

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Adrian Silva Franco’s Summary

System administrator and infrastructure manager. I like to master my tools (puppet, debian, python) but I'm always open to new aproaches. Physical, virtual, or cloud, I can manage for you wholesale.

While I love playing with Free/Libre/OpenSource Software (FLOSS) I realize much more can be acomplished listening to your customers and stakeholders; focusing in making people flow with technology. So much the facilitation tagline.

Changes welcomed here.

Adrian Silva Franco’s Specialties:

Debian GNU/Linux, virtualization, vservers, fai, infrastructure automation, cfengine, puppet, high-availability, nagios, cacti, zenoss, mysql, web servers, apache, nginx, wordpress, python, python deployment, nevow, pylons, scenario planning, customer participation, technology facilitation

Adrian Silva Franco’s Experience

Man-At-Infrastructure

Visualtis

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

Went a long way from our first tomcat and java 4 webapps to our online experiments still powered by the latest tomcat stack. In the first year of life of Visualtis I was asked wether to pursue the path of a SysAdmin or Java developer; we had enough Java power and I was more prepared and apt for the Systems Front.

My aproach to Systems work has always been inspired by the ways laid at Infrastructures.org; the ones CFengine was harbinger. First prototypes of central system management were based on cfengine plus GNU Arch repositories. In 2008 I made the switch to puppet and git, with heavy use of linux-vserver for context separation.

I frequently act as evangelist and facilitator for the use of agile tools by our development team. Since my move from arch, to mercurial, and later to git I gained some insight about the pitfalls of distributed VCS, I try hard to make that knowledge useful to my fellows.

Visualtis is ISO:9001 certified as a provider of IT services. I play the roles of Bakup and Systems manager; but I'm not too fond of it. I feel we suffer some internal conflict between make-believe tools and those that add real value and quality.
Technology Facilitation
Ageda (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)

Ageda began doing facilitation for the adoption of free software on the edge of the Infrastructure at the Education Service in Murcia (educarm.es). The mixed monitoring/managing (nagios / cfengine) system is still in use as of 2009 in the routers of the public High-School at Murcia.

Until 2008 Ageda went into an almost exclusive relation with Visualtis. Some online system and web development contracts were awarded and finished with the mediation of job markets (Rentacoder, guru, ...).
Infrastructure Facilitation

Jimenez Godoy

(Printing industry)

March 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 10 months)

One of the main clients at Visualtis. We develop java webapps for their intranet. I'm in charge of core networking and servers.

The challenges are both technical and organizative; managing the systems and collaborating with the staff provided by other IT service providers.

(cisco systems, high-availability routing, network rescue and planning, negotiation, facilitation)
Systems research and integration

Intenziona

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 6 months)

I was key in the integration of the FLOSS stack behind Intenziona's mobile sync server. The service is marketed as a data backup and integrity solution for mobile companies, reseller chains, and private entities; that aproach differentiates Intenziona from most of the competition in the sync arena.

As part of the work I contributed to upstream Kannel support for delivery of Over-The-Air syncml configuration payloads.

(kannel, ota, mobile, syncml, funambol, apache, centos)
System Technician

Informática para Pymes Murcianas

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

January 2004 — June 2004 (6 months)

Maintenance of windows based networks.