Fabio Alessandro Locati is a senior consultant at Red Hat, public speaker, author, and open source contributor. His main areas of expertise are Linux, security, cloud technologies, and automation. With more than 10 years of working experience in the field, he has experience in different IT roles, technologies, and languages.
He has worked for many different companies, starting from a one-man company to huge companies such as Tech Data and Samsung. This has allowed him to consider various technologies from different points of view, helping him develop critical thinking and swiftly understand whether a particular technology is the right fit for a specific project.
Since he is always looking for better technologies, he also tries new technologies to understand their advantages over the old ones as well as their maturity status. One of the most important things he evaluates about a technology is its internal security and the possibility of adding security through configuration or interaction with other technologies.
In his work and to manage his own machines, he has used Ansible since 2013.
He often gives talks about his work, the projects he helps with in his spare time, and his vision of the IT and security worlds. He is the author of the book OpenStack Cloud Security, Packt Publishing.
In his spare time, he helps out on the Fedora Project as well as Wikimedia and Open Street Map.
You can find more about him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiolocati/en and at https://fale.io/.
I would like to thank my parents, who introduced me to computer science before I was even able to write, and my whole family, who has always been supportive. A special thanks goes to everyone I worked with at Packt Publishing for their hard work and to Tim Rupp for his great feedbacks. Since Ansible is an open source project, I thank all companies that decided to invest into it as well as all people that decided to volunteer their time to the project.