Nicola Larosa

Current

Senior Software Developer at Canonical Ltd
Founding member at Python Italia APS
Developer, bug fixer, translator at various FLOSS projects

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Past

Freelance software developer at my own consultancy
Network Services Analyst/Developer at Space spa, Prato (FI), Italy
Chief Technology Officer at Araknos srl, Bologna, Italy

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Education

Università degli Studi della Calabria

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Industry

Computer Software

Nicola Larosa’s Summary

I've been designing and developing software since 1990, administering computer systems since 1994, using mostly Free/Libre Open Source Software technologies since 1999, contributing to various FLOSS projects since 2001, and managing projects from home since 2002.
My experiences in software development span a large part of the available technologies, both FLOSS and proprietary, with an emphasis on the Python programming language and its web/internet frameworks.
I have good systems and network management and security practice.
I team up with several FLOSS projects, and am prominent in the Italian Python community.
I have extensive technical knowledge and experience in the field of audio, music and acoustics.
I am an Italian language native speaker, have good English language skills, both oral and written, and am an accomplished VoIP / IM / IRC / email communicator.
I telecommute from my home office. I used to be, but am not anymore, available for fixed-term projects, favoring those released under FLOSS licenses, and appreciate compensation benefits that are proportional to final revenue.

Nicola Larosa’s Specialties:

Software development: Python, Django, Twisted, JavaScript, SQL, XML, C, Linux.
Computer networking and security.
Systems administration: Linux, Unix, Windows.
Audio hardware, software and theory.

Nicola Larosa’s Experience

Senior Software Developer

Canonical Ltd

(Computer Software industry)

2009 — Present (1 year )
Founding member

Python Italia APS

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

2007 — Present (3 years )

I and other twenty people founded in 2007 the Italian Association for the Python programming language. Then we organized PyCon Uno, the first Italian Python meeting <http://www.python.it>, a resounding success.
Developer, bug fixer, translator

various FLOSS projects

(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — Present (9 years 1 month)

Telecommuting position.
Developer of ConfigObj and odict, part of Michael J. Foord's Pythonutils.
Twisted Matrix web site maintainer.
Django Italian translator for Django.
Sourceforge member since 2000.
Contributions to these projects (in reverse chronological order):
Django, Quixote, Docutils, NTop, Leo, Squishdot, ZPoPyDA, Formulator, Open Directory Project.