Federico Lucifredi

Bio

Federico Lucifredi is the Product Management Director for Ceph Storage at Red Hat and a co-author of O'Reilly's "Peccary Book" on AWS System Administration. Previously, he was the Ubuntu Server product manager at Canonical, where he oversaw a broad portfolio and the rise of Ubuntu Server to the rank of most popular OS on Amazon AWS. A software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, he was part of the SUSE Linux team, overseeing the update lifecycle and delivery stack of a $150 million maintenance business. A CIO and a network software architect at advanced technology and embedded Linux startups, Federico was also a lecturer for over 200 students in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate programs, and simultaneously a consultant for MIT implementing fluid-dynamics simulations in Java.

He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events, notably the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, The OpenStack Summit, LinuxWorld, and the leading SCALE and LCA Community conferences. Federico is a recognized expert in computing performance issues and consults with Standard and Poor's clients in Free and Open Source Software technical and strategic issues. He participated in the FSF’s GPL v3 drafting process in the large corporation panel, and maintained the man suite, the primary documentation-delivery tool under Linux. Federico is a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University, and holds an ACE from MIT's Sloan School. His writing has been published on Linux Journal and Linux Magazine, and he pens the recurring "Performance Tuning Dojo" column for Admin Magazine and writes for O'Reilly Media on topics ranging from Cloud Computing to Open Hardware.