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Alfredo Deza

Lima Morning photo book

 

Im excited to announce my first photo book has just been published! If you want to preview it or buy it (only the first 15 pages are available) go to: Lima Morning

The book came about after taking several street photos in my last 2 trips to Lima, Peru. It is about the less touristic spots in Lima, let me know what you think!

Who am I?

From Peru to Atlanta

I am a System Administrator working for Maxmedia Design, an interactive media agency in Atlanta, Georgia. Here we do cool web designs and we are always innovating. How else would you explain builing a 16TB ZFS box for the motion team?

I was born in Lima, Peru but I currently live in the US.

because it is impossible.

In 2009 I ran my first full Marathon (26.2 miles!) I enjoyed the struggle and was happy to cross the finish line. That is basically me: finishing one task after the other doing .

Presentations

import gravity

I try to give talks as much as I find interesting things with Python. Whenever I get the chance to get videos I will post them here along with supporting files (e.g. presentation itself, supporting code).

I was honored to be able to talk at PyCON 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. The complete presentation and code examples can be found below.

  • Pycon 2010 presentation and Code

    • One of my first talks in the monthly meeting in Python Atlanta Group, here I talk about how I tested a daemon library I wrote.

  • Testing with Nose and Coverage

    • Stockists

    Resume: alfredodeza [at] gmail [dot] com

    Work Experience

    • Debian and Ubuntu Administration
    • Xen Server Virtualization (bare bones)
    • LDAP management
    • SAMBA shares
    • Solaris and ZFS storage
    • LAMP environments
    • Automation via Python
    • Zenoss monitoring
    • Trac bug tracking
    • Mercurial and SVN
    • VPN and tunneling
    • Backup solutions
    • SAN administration
    • Inventory and software tracking
    • Reverse Proxy
    • Load Balancing
    • Multi Network setups

    Publications

    • Contributor for:
    • Python For Unix and Linux System Administrators (O'reilly)

    Presentations

    • PyCON 2010 "Distributed Programming with PyRO"
    • Python Atlanta "Testing in Python with Nose"
    • Python Atlanta "Introduction to SqLite3 in Python"
     

    Software

    Supay

    A daemon library to daemonize your Python scripts

    Pacha

    A systems configuration management. Using Mercurial, Pacha takes care of backing up and restoring configurations

    Liten2

    A deduplication tool, initially inspired by Noah Gift, I decided to do a rewrite from scratch and improve on some things.

    creating software that is useful for me and others gives me a sense of added value in my work, I code because it makes me happy

    There are a few ways to contact me, but it is always best to send me an email:

    Email: alfredodeza [at] gmail [dot] com
    Twitter: alfredodeza

     

    Flickr

    I love to take pictures with my Canon XSI

    LivingUbuntu

    I try to write as much as I can about the OS I use the most.

    Cafe Pais

    Watch out for Cafe Pais, a place where there are no boundaries...

    "I took the roof out... it is much better than having windows"