Angelo Failla

Ireland Ireland

Production Engineer at Facebook

Technology / Software / Internet

Born in the 2nd largest city in Sicily called Catania, a place dominated by a 3100m volcano (Etna). Internet user since '96, I started using GNU/Linux back in '99 thanks to a bunch of people I've met at my local university during one installation party. Those people were part of the first italian HackLab called the FreakNet MediaLab born initially as a FidoNet BBS and then converted into an hack-lab where people could physically get together and work on projects or simply learn together new stuff without all the formality of an university. I started working as a programmer (mainly PHP, with some POSIX C), but in 2004 I've decided to move to the sysadmin world. I still enjoy coding (bash...