Alberto Contreras (aciba{,90})

About Me

Who I am

I am Alberto Contreras. I have a BSc in Mathematics from University of Granada and a MSc in Computer Science from University of Malaga.

Prior to working at Canonical, I worked as a software/scientific engineer during 5 years in the fields of Monte-Carlo simulations, smart cities, reconciliation in banking and digital marketing using technologies as C/C++, Matlab and Python.

I joined Canonical in 2022 as part of the Canonical Public Cloud (CPC) team as a software engineer with focus on a good integration of Ubuntu in Public Clouds, mainly working on Ubuntu Server projects, as cloud-init, ubuntu-pro.

My Ubuntu story

My first contact with Linux was with a mini laptop provided by my school, which had Debian installed. My first contact with Ubuntu was in 2008, when I downloaded an Ubuntu 8.04 ISO and installed it in my workstation. I was impressed by the performance, cohesiveness and beauty of the OS. I maintained a dual-boot system with Windows (mainly for gaming and windows-only compatible programs for my studies) during some years.

I used Debian / Ubuntu during my university studies and in an internship I did contributing to Normaliz. My professional career was full of Ubuntu too, either as a target and/or a development systems.

Since I joined Canonical in 2022, I have improved how Ubuntu behaves, adding features, fixing bugs, improving its perfomance and adding documentation. Working mainly in cloud-init upstream and downstream (Ubuntu), and ubuntu-pro.

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