Hire me!

Hey there, do you read? HIRE ME!

Do you work in the IT (as in Information Technology) field? For [an IT company]? Does your company need to interact with Linux, perhaps with Gentoo or Sabayon? If so, before going ahead, please google my name. Yes, this is me, a freelance programmer with vast background in GNU/Linux and a graduate student at the University of Trento in Computer Science. Please pretty please hire me (and request my CV)! I need food and I’m poor , yeah, surprise surprise, developing for “good” doesn’t pay bills.

Besides, this is what I am good at (I’ll try to keep this list updated over time):

• In general, I am a (expect a long list afterwards, random order, pipe it to `sort` if you’re annoyed), Python, Java, C# (Mono), C/C++, ASM (x86, amd64, Atmel), Qt4, GTK, OCaml (did I say I hate it?), Bash/Scripting, Ebuild (Gentoo “packages”), rpmbuild (as known as the Fedora stuff), SQL (I know some SQLite3 internals, MySQL, Oracle), SparQL (and Semantic Desktop in general). Of course, PHP(Zend Framework)/HTML/JS. Over all, I do truly prefer memory&type safe languages. But in my recent history, I wrote a hardware encrypted text messages transceiver in ASM, including the implementation of LCD and PS/2 keyboard drivers.
• I usually work with several design patterns (Publisher/Subscriber, Model/View/Controller, Model/View/State, etc) or creational (Factories, Prototypes, Singleton). I can invent my own patterns too.
• I am able to use high level paradigms in low level languages when possible. If you don’t know what I am talking about, nevermind.
• I can work with Event-driven applications (Comet, Grafcet, or in general async stuff) and I can model architectures around it.
• GNU/Linux distros package management (I actually wrote Entropy, a binary package manager for Sabayon, which is around 100kLOC). So yeah, I know something about it.
• I can create applications using either Nokia Qt4/KDE, GTK or Java/Android (sorry) and any other FREE “Desktop” or “Mobile” technology.
• I can port (or give love) applications to Gentoo/Sabayon Linux (from other distros, too) and commit to respective repositories.
• I can prepare proper build systems for your application, and write thorough documentation too.
• I can create web applications too, using Python (Django or Pylons) and PHP (Zend Framework), but don’t ask me about Ruby. And see the paragraph below for a list of other exceptions.

What I am (intentionally) not good at:

• I work in the Free Software/Open Source world, so please, don’t ask me to do something with broken-by-design technologies (.NET, ASP, just to name two). Beside of course, I could handle them (for higher money perhaps).
• Don’t ask me to design your application, Hello? I’m not an Interaction Designer. If you really want that, ok, I can do it, I’m quite good, but as I said, I AM NOT an Interaction Designer.
• Don’t ask me to do graphics, I can do very basic stuff with open tools like Gimp or Inkscape (SVG), but really, just don’t.
• I don’t do Ruby at the moment, I just don’t like it, but things could change in future.
• I don’t do Flash animations. Period.
• I don’t work for free nor for little money, so, just don’t ask.

My perfect work environment (if you really want to motivate me):
My $HOME. I prefer working in front of my Tripe Head LCD setup, without shifts to follow. I mostly work when everybody sleeps, because I do truly love silence and concentration over interrupt bursts and chaos. I can work 16 hours non-stop if I am motivated and take a day off afterwards. It’s because I am goal driven, and until I don’t reach my goals I don’t give up: this doesn’t mean that I keep banging my head on a problem for several days, it means I have to have my time to study the case and snore on my keyboard. This is the ultimate frontier of efficiency, I call it: anti-burn-out.

Watch most (not all) of my commits at ohloh.net, github.com or cia.vc or gitweb.sabayon.org.

If you still don’t believe me, here is a list of projects I am either maintaining or working on, random order: Gentoo, Sabayon, Itsme, PacakgeKit, Anaconda, Portage.