Paulo Vital

Current

Software Engineer at IBM Linux Technology Center

Past

Support Engineer at CPqD Telecom & IT Solution
Technical Consultant at Método Informática

Education

Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Universidade Católica Dom Bosco

Connections

107 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Paulo Vital’s Summary

Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital is a Sofware Engineer at IBM's Linux Technology Center working in the IBM ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit - Linux Edition project. He has worked in following projects: IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER, Yaboot, IBM Server Consolidation Tool and Multicore Development Tools (Cell IDE). Also an IBM Academic Initiative ambassador (www.ibm.com/university/) and an inventor with two patents under registration at USPTO.

He is also a Certified Scrum Master, and likes to study about project management in general.

He is interested in software development and R&D in Open Source, Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing and Computer Architecture projects.

Paulo Vital’s Specialties:

C, Python, PHP, Shell Scripting , C++, Java, Operating Systems (Linux, Solaris and Unix), Networking, High Performance Computing (HPC), Distributed Systems, Multicore Systems, Project Management, Scrum and Operations Research

Paulo Vital’s Experience

Software Engineer

IBM Linux Technology Center

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

I've been working with software development (open source development) in the Linux Technology Center.

Here is the list of project(s) that I'm working at the moment:
* IBM ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit - Linux Edition (since Jan, 2009)
* Multicore Development Tools - Cell IDE (Sep, 2008 ~ Jan, 2009)
* IBM Server Consolidation Tool (Dec, 2007 ~ Sep, 2008)
* Yaboot (submitting patches to the community - Feb, 2007 ~ Dec, 2007)
* IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER (Jun, 2006 ~ Dec, 2007)
Support Engineer

CPqD Telecom & IT Solution

(Telecommunications industry)

October 2005 — May 2006 (8 months)

Level 3 support, environment support
Technical Consultant

Método Informática

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 4 months)

Worked as a technical consultant for Linux Server and Network administration. Also, I teached some courses of the Conectiva Linux system. Helped the development team in the first phase of the "MyERP.net" system (http://www.myerpnet.com.br/).

Paulo Vital’s Education

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

MSc , Computer Science , 2004 — 2008
Universidade Católica Dom Bosco

B.S , Computer Engineering , 1999 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

GNU/Linux Users Group, Hardware Lab

Additional Information

Paulo Vital’s Interests:

Unix and Linux hacking, distributed systems, high performance computing, computer architecture, new technologies, airplane model (R/C), movies, books, music, basketball, to cook, trips

Paulo Vital’s Groups:

The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
IBMers
IBM Association
FOSS Professionals
Brazilian Computing Society
CREA-SP
Gnu/Linux Users
Scrum Brasil
Certified ScrumMasters
Universidade Católica Dom Bosco