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| = Chad Smith (chad.smith) = | = Alberto Contreras (aciba{,90}) = |
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| || ''' Location''' |||| [[ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fort+Collins,+CO/@40.5567676,-105.1378638,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87694a4590f030ad:0xa9b14228b4ab4082!8m2!3d40.5852602!4d-105.084423 | Fort Collins, CO USA ]] || || ''' Time Zone''' |||| Pacific Standard (UTC-0800) or Daylight (UTC-0700) Time || || ''' Launchpad Page''' |||| [[https://launchpad.net/~chad.smith|~chad.smith]] || || ''' Email Address''' |||| [[mailto:chad.smith@canonical.com|chad dot smith at canonical dot com]] || || ''' IRC Nick''' |||| blackboxsw on freenode & OFTC || || ''' Personal Website''' |||| [[https://blackboxsw.github.io/]] || || ''' !GitHub '''|||| [[https://github.com/blackboxsw/|blackboxsw]] || |
|| ''' Location''' |||| [[ https://www.google.com/maps/place/M%C3%A1laga/@36.7182149,-4.4904663,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0xd7259c44fdb212d:0x6025dc92c9ca32cf!8m2!3d36.7178196!4d-4.425557!16s%2Fg%2F11b7c714d1?entry=ttu | Malaga, Spain ]] || || ''' Time Zone''' |||| CET (UTC+0100) or CEST (UTC+0200) Time || || ''' Launchpad Page''' |||| [[https://launchpad.net/~aciba|~aciba]] || || ''' Email Address''' |||| [[mailto:alberto.contreras@canonical.com|alberto dot contreras at canonical dot com]] || || ''' IRC Nick''' |||| aciba on freenode & OFTC || || ''' !GitHub '''|||| [[https://github.com/aciba90/|aciba90]] || |
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| I am Chad Smith, a developer on [[http://www.canonical.com|Canonical's]] [[http://www.ubuntu.com|Ubuntu]] ServerTeam. My objective is to make complex software solutions like landscape, cloud-init and curtin more extensible, better tested, documented and easier to use. | |
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| I have a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California Davis. I spent a couple of years dabbling in neural networks products | === Who I am === I am Alberto Contreras. I have a BSc in Mathematics from University of Granada and a MSc in Computer Science from University of Malaga. |
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| Prior to working at Canonical, I worked as a software/scientific engineer during 5 years in the fields of Monte-Carlo simulations, smart cities, reconciliation in banking and digital marketing using technologies as C/C++, Matlab and Python. | |
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| My first exposure to Linux was Slackware '97 on embedded systems. Ubuntu changed my world view by making install and configuration of Linux on my desktop simple, usable and beautiful. | I joined Canonical in 2022 as part of the Canonical Public Cloud (CPC) team as a software engineer with focus on a good integration of Ubuntu in Public Clouds, mainly working on Ubuntu Server projects, as cloud-init, ubuntu-pro. |
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| Before joining the [[http://landscape.com|Landscape team]] @ Canonical in 2011, I spent 10 years at HP, in the Open source and Linux Organization where I was a core developer writing SNMP and WBEM solutions for remote systems management. In the last couple years at HP, I developed configuration management solutions for bare-metal provisioning, monitoring and tracking the ubuntu infrastructure on which HP Cloud was running. | === My Ubuntu story === My first contact with Linux was with a mini laptop provided by my school, which had Debian installed. My first contact with Ubuntu was in 2008, when I downloaded an Ubuntu 8.04 ISO and installed it in my workstation. I was impressed by the performance, cohesiveness and beauty of the OS. I maintained a dual-boot system with Windows (mainly for gaming and windows-only compatible programs for my studies) during some years. I used Debian / Ubuntu during my university studies and in an internship I did contributing to [[https://www.normaliz.uni-osnabrueck.de/|Normaliz]]. My professional career was full of Ubuntu too, either as a target and/or a development systems. Since I joined Canonical in 2022, I have improved how Ubuntu behaves, adding features, fixing bugs, improving its perfomance and adding documentation. Working mainly in cloud-init upstream and downstream (Ubuntu), and ubuntu-pro. |
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About Me
Who I am
I am Alberto Contreras. I have a BSc in Mathematics from University of Granada and a MSc in Computer Science from University of Malaga.
Prior to working at Canonical, I worked as a software/scientific engineer during 5 years in the fields of Monte-Carlo simulations, smart cities, reconciliation in banking and digital marketing using technologies as C/C++, Matlab and Python.
I joined Canonical in 2022 as part of the Canonical Public Cloud (CPC) team as a software engineer with focus on a good integration of Ubuntu in Public Clouds, mainly working on Ubuntu Server projects, as cloud-init, ubuntu-pro.
My Ubuntu story
My first contact with Linux was with a mini laptop provided by my school, which had Debian installed. My first contact with Ubuntu was in 2008, when I downloaded an Ubuntu 8.04 ISO and installed it in my workstation. I was impressed by the performance, cohesiveness and beauty of the OS. I maintained a dual-boot system with Windows (mainly for gaming and windows-only compatible programs for my studies) during some years.
I used Debian / Ubuntu during my university studies and in an internship I did contributing to Normaliz. My professional career was full of Ubuntu too, either as a target and/or a development systems.
Since I joined Canonical in 2022, I have improved how Ubuntu behaves, adding features, fixing bugs, improving its perfomance and adding documentation. Working mainly in cloud-init upstream and downstream (Ubuntu), and ubuntu-pro.
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