bio
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.
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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
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