I enjoy working on anything revolves around the IT ecosystem, and find the most fun in troubleshooting problems and working around strict requirements and deadlines. My peculiarity is discovering the root cause of a problem and working out a possible solution in a very short time. The majority of my skills are self-taught and have been improved in 7 years of work experience: - Linux administrator and MySQL DBA for a major telecommunication company (www.buongiorno.com), configuration and performance tuning of 150 systems and database installations processing an average of 4500 queries per sec. - Lead C programmer of a IT infrastructure monitoring software for Linux and Solaris, currently flagship application of a mid-sized software company based in Milan, Italy. - Currently freelance Linux systems administrator and Python programmer for a number of customers all over the world, from optimizing system performance, automating a process through a custom backend application and web interf