PhillipSusi
Name: Phillip Susi
Email: MailTo(psusi AT SPAMFREE cfl.rr DOT com)
Lauchpad Profile: https://launchpad.net/people/psusi
Background
I am an aspiring ubuntu developer. I am a firm believer in the Hacker Ethic ( the MIT kind ). I truely began my path as a computer hacker when I was in the 8th grade in 1993 ( I'm now 27 years old ) when I became addicted to learning about these infernal machines and how to control what they do. I experimented with Slackware around 1995 but ran WinNT on the desktop. While in college I experimented with both debian and later redhat on my desktop, and set up an ISP using a mix of slackware and NT ( the 24 port PRI ISDN v.90 modem cards we got were only supported under NT RAS ). For a period of time I contributed to ReactOS in a number of areas, mostly in the kernel and low level support libraries and daemons.
I ended up back in windows and spent 2 years addicted to playing MMORPGs ( doac, lineage 2, then WoW ). I finally got tired of wasting my life on that and installed Ubuntu around Septembre of 2005, just before breezy was finalized, and immediately fell in love. I become more enamered by the unix way every day. I love open source because when things don't work right, I can fix them, and I love Ubuntu because most of the time, I don't have to.
My interests mostly lie in low level stuff, like the kernel and daemons. I have a large interest in networking and servers and as a project to teach myself C++, I wrote an ftp server on NT utilizing zero copy IO and a small worker thread pool with an IO completion port that attained staggering results in throughput, cpu efficiency, and scalability. I have long hoped to see a server using these techniques based on Linux, and will probably end up working on the kernel and apache to support and utilize them.
For my current day job, I work as a software engineer building a non magnetic MRI compatible IV Fluid pump for a medical eqiupment manufacturing company. In my spare time I work on open source software.
Current Projects
- Working on [:PacketCD] and attempting to become the upstream maintainer of the udftools package, since the project appears to have been abandoned.
Getting things learned from creating FakeRaidHowto into Ubuntu as FakeRaidSpec
- Also awaiting approval for fixes to the defrag package to allow it to compile on amd64 ( currently on revu ).
Future Plans
I'd like to continue working to improve Ubuntu, so it can be the best OS it can be, and encorage people to use it.