Profile

I'm an Engineer born in Italy with a passion for photography and gym training.

Being a good engineer in today's technology world means, for me, knowing both the faces of the coin: software engineering and system planning/administration. This is what I try to achieve every day.

Interests

Networks: as a Telecommunication Engineer, I love everything that travels from A to B and bring information, more if it travels wirelessly
Linux: all aspects of system and network administration, user space development and desktop tricks
AJAX Web Application design and development: The Net world changes fast, create something that make people lives better is a very stimulant challenge
Object-oriented programming: data abstraction, encapsulation, messaging, modularity, polymorphism, and inheritance: what a sound.
New Media: I really love researching and exploring on the big Net
Weather: I've always been fascinated by the weather and its changes. I own and develop several weather modules to control what's going on over my head

Spoken Languages

  • Italian - native
  • English - very good

Hobbies

Photography, gym and sleeping.


Technical Skills

Passion is the key that drives my work: without passion, there's no excellence.
In the next section you can find a list of my skills, the most important of them remains my real passion.

Systems

Linux Administration
Windows Server Administration
Virtualization technologies
Relational databases
NoSQL databases (MongoDB)

Networking

TCP/IP network protocols
WLAN protocols 802.11a/b/g, 802.1X
Switches, routers, firewalls tweaks
Ubiquiti Networks technologies
Cisco technologies
RFID technology

Software

ASP.NET WebApps with jQuery
C# .NET Framework 2 - 4
XHTML/CSS
jQuery, Backbone.js, js MVC
PHP and Yii Framework
C++
Java
Bash

Work Experience

"Felice colui che ha trovato il suo lavoro; non chieda altra felicita'" - Thomas Carlyle

Prometeo

2008-present
System Engineer and Software Specialist
Software design and development. Linux and Windows systems planning and administration. Network debug/troubleshooting.

WiFied R&D

2008-present
Linux Network Engineer & Co-founder
Bottom-up development of WiFi Linux systems and user-space design/development.

Selex Communications

2007-2008
Linux System Engineer
Design and development of wireless Linux embedded systems. Network planning.

Education

Learn all your life, said a dude.

University of Florence, Florence, Italy
2002-2007

Degree in Telecommunications Engineering
Thesys title: "Implementation of Link State like metrics on AODV protocol"


"ITIS Tito Sarrocchi" High School, Siena, Italy
1997-2002

High School Diploma.
Focus in Electronics and Telecommunications

Featured Projects

"Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit" - Lucio Anneo Seneca
(Non e' mai esistito ingegno senza un poco di pazzia)

WiFied R&D

WiFied

WiFied is the name of a Research and Development team that works on wireless network appliances running Linux kernel and FOSS, with the addition of ad-hoc software developed by the team itself.


The main areas of development are:

Passions

"Homo mundus minor" - Boezio
(L'uomo e' un mondo in miniatura)

There's something that wait for you when your work comes to an end: your passion, excitement, feeling, fire, joy. Call it whatever you want, it's something that burns, you can't stop it.


No parking night or day - Riccardo Coppola

Shooting the world

Having a technical background, photography is a perfect match for me: I can mix the tech of the camera with the emotion of the shoot. Nothing extraordinary, only my view of the world "through the lens" and much fun.

Frangar, non flectar

Here comes my deep passion: gym training. I love the environment of the gym, the commitment to work hard for a result you only see into your mind, the excitement to break a personal record: sounds good.

Train hard, or go home.

Philosophy

"Nec semper feriet quodcumque minabitur arcus" - Orazio
(L'arco non riuscira' sempre a colpire cio' che minaccera')

In today's world everything runs incredibly fast. Our tech world always demands faster results. In such an environment it is easy to think that nothing but the cold knowledge lasts for us to be succesful in our work.



Actually, the things that really change the world are always driven by something deep that's inside everyone and that's only looking for a breach to be able to get out and show himself to the world. This is what I call passion, and the right breach is only a matter of finding out what really is our native talent, feed it and let it grow.

Contact

In the Internet era, everything tend to be digital. Anyway, having a closer contact helps us to remain human being.

Skype: coppola.riccardo
Email: hello [at] riccardocoppola.com
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/riccardocoppola

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