Pascal Charest works as senior principal consultant for Les Laboratoires Phoenix—an information system performance consulting firm based in Canada. Working with leading-edge algorithms and free software, he is called as subject matter expert to manage infrastructure projects, lead operations, and execute process validation.
Over the last year, sample mandates includes redesigning storage system (glusterfs) for a large North American investment group and managing the carrier-grade, international network of a prominent member of the telecommunication industry. He is also leading operations for quite a few local startups and answers their scalability needs through custom cloud computing solution / network infrastructure.
He is also a free software/society advocate and often speaks in conference about scalability issues in information systems.
He can be reached at <[email protected]>
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Manlio Perillo lives in Italy, in the Irpinia region, near Naples.
He currently works as a freelance programmer, mainly developing web applications using Python and Nginx.
In 2008, he began working on a WSGI (Python Web Server Gateway Interface) implementation for Nginx. It is available on http://bitbucket.org/mperillo/, along with some other open source projects.