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Matteo Landi

Born the 28th of November, 1986

Italian citizen

Contacts

Address: via della gronda 203/d, 55049 Viareggio, Italy

Phone: +393282935718

Email: matteo@matteolandi.net

Goals

In my ideal job I would like to work with a friendly team and in a stimulating development environment, deal with bleeding-edge technologies, and create high quality applications.

I am mostly interested in distributed and scalable back-end systems, even if I would not step back if asked to design or implement client-facing (like web) applications.

Education

Laurea specialistica in Ingegneria Informatica, Networking e Multimedia / Master's degree of Computer Engineering, Networking and Multimedia
- Period: September 2008 - July 2011
- University: Universita` di Pisa
- Grade: 110/110
- Thesis
  - Title: Design and implementation of a framework for very fast access to network devices
  - Supervisor: Luigi Rizzo
  - Description: General purpose systems (FreeBSD in our case), seem not to be able to leverage the power of modern network adapters.
    
    For these reasons we investigated the implementation of the network stack (FreeBSD kernel) to spot possible inefficient operations and developed a new framework, netmap, which enables applications exploit the power of network cards, and saturate the capacity of communication links (10 Gbps). Moreover, the framework can be used to implement fast network applications such as packet generators, packet monitors and software switches able to scale horizontally with the number of CPUs. A poster (see publications) has been recently accepted to appear at SIGCOMM 2011 held in Toronto on august.
    
    As of 17th of November 2011, netmap has been merged into the FreeBSD source tree (r227614).
Laurea triennale in Ingegneria Informatica / Bachelor's degree of Computer Engineering
- Period: September 2005 - July 2008
- University: Universita` di Pisa
- Grade: 105/110
- Thesis
  - Title: xpdf extension for PDF handwritten annotations
  - Supervisor: Luigi Rizzo
  - Description: xpdf is an open source viewer for PDF files; even if it is capable of rendering drawings and annotations created with other PDF viewers (e.g. Acrobat Reader) it does not permit users to create new ones.
    
    During the period of the thesis, I cooperated with a university schoolmate and extended the viewer to add support for creating handwritten annotations. Even if the patch has not been included in the original source tree (a link of the work has been added to the extensions page), the work has been included in the standard FreeBSD distribution.
Liceo scientifico / Scientific Secondary School (Lyceum)
- Period: September 2000 - July 2005
- School: Liceo Scientifico Barsanti e Matteucci, Viareggio
- Grade: 96/100

Publications

Matteo Landi; netmap: framework for very fast access to network devices; poster for CHANGE-Ofelia Summer School, November 2011
Luigi Rizzo, Matteo Landi; netmap: memory mapped access to network devices; poster for SIGCOMM, August 2011

Job experience

Software developer at ION Trading
- Period: Februar 2012 - Now
Software developer and consultant at M2Advisor
- Period: October 2009 - Now
- Description: Development of a centralized system which distributes advertisements to remote monitors placed on public places such as cafes and restaurants.
  
  The main goal of the job was to study the feasibility of a centralized system for the automatic distribution of advertisements, and eventually implement it in cooperation with a couple of colleagues. In particular, I implemented the front-end application running on the monitors and displaying the advertisements.
Researcher at Universita` di Pisa - Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
- Period: Septemper 2011 - January 2012
- Description: Design and development of a high-performance platform for networks flow processing.
  
  Now that netmap has reached a level of maturity that enables the distribution of its sources across the communities of researchers and developers, it would be interesting to use it to implement large-scale flow-processing applications enabling customers the possibility to create different connections types depending on the needs.
Software developer for Zero-cinque
- Period: October 2008 - February 2009
- Description: Development of a SugarCRM module which enables users to merge informations extracted from two already built-in modules
  
  SugarCRM is an open source application which helps companies communicate with prospects, share sales information, close deals and keep customers happy. Due to a small redundancy problem, a company using the software asked me to create a module enabling users to merge information extracted from different database tables and solve such redundancy problem.
Software developer for REDS
- Period: October 2007 - December 2007
- Description: Development of a very simple content management system (CMS) for naval engineering drawings.
  
  R.E.D.S. is Marine Technical Office which supplies design, surveys and general marine services to Shipyards and private Owners. While working for them, I developed a CMS able to handle all their customers and all the projects and drawings they created for such customers.

Projects

Developer of the 3rd party osaic Python module
- Period: March 2011 - Now
- Description: Development of a Python module which enables applications to create mosaics with photos used a tiles.
  
  Given a set of input images and a target, the idea is to choose the right input image (color based reasoning) fitting a certain portion of the target image.

Knowledge and skills

Programming languages: during my university studies and job experiences I gained knowledge of different programming languages. I mastered C/C++ to accomplish different university homeworks (e.g. a peer-to-peer file sharing application, lz78 compressor, web-server) and both graduation theses. In the spare time I learned Python, and eventually ended up using it for different side-projects (e.g. osaic) for job (while working for M2Advisor), and also for some homework (e.g. CBR risk management system). Moreover, at university I had the chance to learn PHP and use it to accomplish both homework tasks (e.g. search-engine or online auction platform) and job-related ones (while working for REDS). Finally, I used Java SE to build a synchronous emulated kernel (homework).
Databases: thanks to a couple of university courses and to various job experiences (i.e. while working for M2Advisor and REDS), I gained a solid knowledge about both the implementation of database systems (based on the ACID model), and how to cope with all related problems such as atomicity and isolation.
System administration: I have always been interested in open-source OSs such as GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, and since the first year of university studies I have always used them on a regular basis to solve both simple and more complex tasks like configuration of servers, daemons and Cron jobs; soon I become familiar with standard Unix tools (e.g. bash, ssh, grep, sed, etc.). While working on the master's degree thesis, I worked with the FreeBSD Kernel, in particular with the modules strictly linked to network operations such as network packet management, filtering and processing.
Version control systems: during those years of personal and professional programming, I have always used revision control software to track changes of project I was working on; in particular I gained experience with both centralized solutions like Subversion, and distributed ones like Git and Mercurial.
Computer science: various university courses made me learn the basics about searching and sorting and algorithms in general, efficient data structures, distribute and parallel programming, and artificial intelligence. In addiction, I have always been interested in solving scalability and optimization problems (netmap for example, is a framework which scales horizontally with the number number of CPUs, and network adapters hardware queues).

Languages

Italian: native language
English: good reading and writing skills, average speaking skills