Speaker - Romeo Solano

Romeo is a professional Linux user who struggles writing an autobiography. Some of his work, which speaks for itself, can be found online at punkto.org.

He cares deeply about securing personal infrastructure from state-level adversaries. Everyone deserves for their personal computing and their infrastructure to keep their information safe from prying eyes.

Romeo works professionally as a sysadmin for a bioinformatics research firm managing their infrastructure systems. In his free time, he works unprofessionally building systems for himself, family, and friends for fun. He winds up running things like a personal media server for his fiancé and a password manager for his grandmother.

Romeo likes to seek the silliest ways to solve problems, instead of the most sensible or cost-effective ways. This drive towards whimsy has brought him into technical situations that software developers and documentation writers never imagined. It has forced him to dive deep into the inner workings of various tools, a dive that has only been possible due to the Free nature of the software.