whoami
I am a Free Software developer from Italy. I work on the Debian and Ubuntu GNU/Linux distributions, where I maintain a number of packages, but I am mostly focused on building tools for package testing (e.g. autopkgtest) and automation for running tests on packages following a CI approach, catching bugs before they reach users. In Ubuntu I am part of Ubuntu Server team, of the Ubuntu release engineering team and of Debcrafters, a team dedicated to the maintenance of the Ubuntu archive as a whole. I am employed by Canonical.
I work as a software engineer, but I see myself as an all-around tinkerer, with one of my areas of interest that happened to develop into a career. I like to play with embedded systems, at the boundary between software and hardware, and I have a decent electronics home lab. I am a (seldom active) ham radio operator, with call sign IZ3SUS.
I have a scientific background: I have a BSc in physics (numerical simulations, statistical mechanics), a MSc in high-energy physics (GPU accelerated algorithms for high-speed detection of particle interactions) and a PhD in Geophysics (seismology). The common thread of these subjects was the use of computers to solve physics problems; I essentially built myself a computational physics curriculum. Before becoming a software engineer, I collaborated with a number of research institutes, notably INFN, INGV, and ENEA. Employed by ENEA/PNRA, I spent over one year in Antarctica, on duty at the Concordia research station.
I founded and maintained for about 13 years the now-shutdown ninthfloor.org project, an ante litteram tilde community.
snippets
An experiment: a micro blog made of GitHub gists. These are concise notes-to-self on technical topics that may happen to be useful to someone else, so gists should work well enough. Bonus: comments and references within what is an extremely popular platform in my bubble.
contact
Email me at paride@legovini.net.
For Debian or Ubuntu topics,
paride@debian.org or
paride@ubuntu.com are also appropriate.
My OpenPGP certificate fingerprint is
1BD886F246FD490879D4E1505A09B4576DE8080E.
meta
This website is a single semantic HTML page styled with classless Pico CSS, which makes it responsive and gets the typography right. No cookies, no analytics, no javascript. Previous iterations used Hugo, but even with a simple theme, I felt it was overkill for my needs.