About

Alberto Mardegan is a Senior Software Developer at Canonical with over 20 years of experience in the field. He is a Linux and open source enthusiast who is passionate about designing and developing software with intuition and simplicity. Alberto's specialties include C, C++, Python, PHP, Java, Linux, POSIX, Unix, Qt, Gtk+, Glib, D-Bus, XML, SQL, IPC, OpenGL, and the Linux kernel. He is also skilled in software architecture and design, teamwork, and cooking hot chocolate. Before joining Canonical, Alberto worked as a self-employed Senior Software Engineer, where he developed software for his own pleasure, including cross-platform photo manager application Imaginario and cross-platform geotagging software Mappero Geotagger. He also contributed to various open-source projects, including the Linux Kernel and Blender. Alberto has also worked as a Lead Developer at Luxoft, where he was responsible for building middleware components for a Linux-based platform for automotive devices. His duties ranged from architecture design and dependencies analysis to implementation and integration of the solution into the flashable image. He also ran a performance study on several embedded database engines and improved a Python tool for generating C++ binding from D-Bus interfaces. Alberto's tech stack includes software engineering, SQL, Python, PHP, integration, Java, dotNET, and C++. He has relevant experience of 20.79 years in the software development industry. Alberto is a remote worker and is always on the lookout for interesting open-source projects to contribute to.