Personal information

• Name and Surnames: Sergio Talens-Oliag
• Place and Date of Birth: Valencia, August, 12th, 1971

• E-Mail: sto@mixinet.net / sto@uv.es

Academic Background

• M.A. In Computer Science by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (<http://www.upv.es/>).

• A.B.D. on the program named Distributed and Parallel Computation of the Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación (<http://www.dsic.upv.es/>) of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
• Obtained the Advanced Studies Diploma (D.E.A.) on the PhD program called Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Communication of the Departamento de Teoría de los Lenguajes (<http://www.uv.es/teolen>) of the Universitat de València (<http://www.uv.es/>), currently working on a PhD Thesis called The Free Software Movement.

Professional Experience

• Director of the Free Software, Systems And Security Area (FS³A) at the Instituto Tecnológico de Informática of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. May 2010 to present.

  http://www.iti.es/

• Information Systems Manager at the Instituto Tecnológico de Informática of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. March 2006 to April 2010.

  http://www.iti.upv.es/

• Part-time lecturer at the Departamento de Informática of the Universitat de València. January 2004 to September 2007.

  http://www.uv.es/dptinf

• Computer Science Analyst for T-Systems S.A., currently working full time for the LliureX Project (<http://lliurex.net/>) in the Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Esport (<http://www.cult.gva.es/>) of the Generalitat Valenciana (<http://www.gva.es/>). January 2004 to March 2006.

  http://www.t-systems.es/

• Computer Security Consultant for Tissat S.A., inside the InfoCentre project (<http://www.infocentre.gva.es/>) of the Generalitat Valenciana. December 2002 - December 2003.

  http://www.tissat.es/

• Part-time lecturer at the Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. September 2003 - November 2003.

  http://www.dsic.upv.es/

• Senior Programmer for Internet Business Constellation (iBC). July 2002 - November 2002, working as analyst and programmer.

  http://www.inetbc.net/

• Senior Programmer for Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO). June 2000 - July 2002, working as Programmer and System and Network Administrator.

  http://www.isoco.com/

• Researcher at the Instituto Tecnológico de Informática of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. June 1999 - May 2000.

  http://www.iti.upv.es/

• Collaboration with the Instituto Tecnólogico de Informática in an IMPIVA Project (<http://www.impiva.es/>). June 1998 - June 1999.

• Installation and Administration of TCP/IP Networks (Internet/Intranet) and Unix Servers (Linux) for:

  • Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), 1995-99.

    http://www.ivia.es/

  • Florida Centre de Formació, 1996-98.

    http://www.florida-uni.es/

  • Federación Valenciana de Municipios y Provincias (FVMP), 1995.

    http://www.fvmp.es/

• Other courses taught:

  • Three courses Preparation of the LPIC-1 Certification Exams (Linux Professional Institute Certification Level 1 Certification). Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, 2010-2011.
  • One course about Technical protection of Software. Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, 2008.
  • One course about Java Securty. Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, 1999.
  • One course about Design and Layout of Publications. La Nau dels Estudiants (Universitat de València), 1997.
  • Four courses about C++ Programming. Escuela Universitaria de Informática (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), 1994-1996.
  • One course about Introduction to C++ programming for the Macintosh. Master de Artes Gráficas of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 1994.

Publications, talks and participation in Congresses and Conferences

• Short History of Linux and The Free Software Movement. Lecture given the courses 2002/2003, 2003/2004 and 2010/2011 in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia as invited lecturer inside the course about Computer Science History and also on April 2006 inside the V Jornadas de Sofware Libre at the Casa de Cultura de Burjassot.

  http://www.uv.es/~sto/charlas/BHLSL/

• Talk about Free virtualization tools for GNU/Linux Systems given at the Congreso Internet del Mediterráneo in Alicante, September 2010.

  http://www.uv.es/sto/charlas/2010_CIM/

• Lecture about Free Software Selection and Configuration for Server Networks given at the VIII Jornades de Programari Lliure in Barcelona, July 2009.

  http://www.uv.es/sto/charlas/2009_07_VIII_JornadesPL/

• Free virtualization tools for GNU/Linux Systems. Article included on the 15th number of Actualidad TIC (ISSN: 1696-5876), July 2009.

  http://www.iti.es/quienes-somos/publicaciones/tic15/

• Lecture about Free virtualization tools for GNU/Linux Systems given at the VII Jornades de Programari Lliure in Barcelona, July 2008.

  http://www.uv.es/sto/charlas/2008_07_VII_JornadesPL/

• Lecture about Computer Science Projects Management with Free Software given at the III Jornadas de Software Libre de Albacete, Albacete, April 2007.

  http://www.uv.es/sto/charlas/GPICSL/

• Agile Documentation Tools. Article included on the 11th number of Actualidad TIC (ISSN: 1696-5876), November 2006.

  http://www.iti.es/quienes-somos/publicaciones/tic11/

• Lecture on Agile Documentation Tools given at the V Jornades de Programari Lliure UPC, July 2006.

• Design and Implementation of the Custom Debian Distributions Toolkit (CDDT). Talk presented on the II Open Source World Conference celebrated in Málaga, February 2006.

  http://people.debian.org/~sto/Malaga2006/

• Lecture on Free software development from the IT Industry given at the IV Jornades de Programari Lliure UPC, July 2005.

  http://www.uv.es/~sto/charlas/Vilanova2005/

• Lecture on Building Custom Debian Distributions with the CDDtk given at the IV Jornades de Programari Lliure UPC, July 2005.

  http://people.debian.org/~sto/Vilanova2005/

• Lecture on the LliureX Project on the Custom Debian Distributions Seminar celebrated the 24th of September, 2004, inside the Firenze World Vision 2004.

  http://www.miu-ft.org/what/events/20040924.fwv.cdd/

• Lecture on Custom Debian Distributions given at the III Jornades de Programari Lliure of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (July 2004)

  http://www.uv.es/~sto/charlas/Manresa2004/

• Security on the application development. Lecture given at the Escuela Politécnica Superior of the Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Albacete, course 2004/2005.

  http://www.uv.es/~sto/charlas/SDA/

• Specialized GNU/Linux Distributions for the Public Administration. Paper presented and included on the proceedings of the International Conference on Open Source celebrated in Málaga, February 2004.

  http://www.opensourceworldconference.com/2004/

• Author of three articles published on the Boletín Electrónico de Infocentre during 2003.

  http://www.uv.es/~sto/articulos/

• Author of the book INTERNET. Redes de Computadores y Sistemas de Información, Edited by ITP-Paraninfo, 1997.

  http://www.ivia.es/~sto/alice/

Other activities

• Developer of the Debian Project.

  http://www.debian.org/

• Design and layout of the series Documentos de Trabajo (Eutopías), Centro de Semiótica y Teoría del espectáculo, Universitat de València & Asociación Vasca de Semiótica, 1988-1998.

  http://www.uv.es/~eutopias/

• Design of the HTML pages of the Ediciones Cátedra web server, 1997.

  http://www.catedra.com/

Languages

• English: high level, written and spoken.
• Catalan/Valencian: high level, written and spoken.

Computer Science Related Knowledge

• Operating Systemas: UNIX, Windows and MacOS, at user, administrator and programmer level.
• Programming Languages: C, C++, Python, UNIX Shell, Java.
• Experience in integration, installation, configuration and mainteinance of all kind of services, basically running under UNIX like systems and using free software:
  • Backup Systems (legato, rdiff-backup, etc.),
  • Content Management Systems (joomla, drupal, plone, etc.),
  • Databases (postgresql, mysql, etc.),
  • Directory Services (openldap, pam_ldap, nss_ldap, etc.),
  • Domain Name Services (bind, powerdns, dnsmasq, etc.),
  • E-Mail Services (postfix, dovecot, mailman, etc.),
  • Monitoring Tools (monit, nagios, zabbix, etc.)
  • Network Filesystems (nfs, samba, gfs, etc.),
  • Project Management Tools (trac, gforge, etc.),
  • Version Control Tools (subversion, git, etc.),
  • Virtualization Tools (linux-vserver, openvz, uml, vmware, xen, etc.),
  • Web Servers (apache, lighttpd, nginx, etc.),
• Unix/Linux Security Tools:
  • Firewalls (ipchains, iptables),
  • Intrusion Detection Systems (snort, integrit, logcheck),
  • Network Monitoring Tools (ntop, ipaudit),
  • Security Scanners (nessus)
• High Availability and Fault Tolerance Systems:
  • Linux-HA (hearbeat, mon, drbd, ...),
  • Load Balancing (lvs)