It's #introduction time!

- 🇮🇹 geek in his mid-thirties, based in 🇳🇱

- 🎓 M.Sc in computer engineering.

- I have been trying to fix several industries in the past two decades, one line of code at the time, from finance, to tourism, to supply chains, to AI, and much more in between.

- My hobbies often involve automating everything around me.

- :linux: #Linux user since 2001. My experience as a Linux admin started back in a time when I used run my IRC and Apache servers on a repurposed Pentium 1 under my bed, and it still took about 10 💾 to install a full Slackware system.

- :arch: #Arch Linux and rolling release enthusiast.

- 🛠 Creator and main developer of #Platypush (https://platypush.tech), an open-source (mainly :python: and :vue:), general-purpose platform/framework to automate everything - from smart devices, to cloud services, to robots, to DevOps operations, to everything in between. With hundreds of available integrations, you can think of it as IFTTT+Tasker+SmartThings on steroids, scriptable, and runnable on almost any device. Or maybe like HomeAssistant's lighter brother.

- Admin of https://social.platypush.tech, a Mastodon instance where I may talk a lot about Platypush, automation, programming, electronics and maths. I tend to write a lot, so if you're looking for an instance with a 10,000 characters per toot limit...

- Looking for relays with instances dedicated to similar topics. My dream would be to build an experience, when it comes to #Fediverse #relays, that is akin to curated #OPML lists, where admins can create curated federated experiences for the users on their platforms, rather than the open-to-everything overwhelming stream of toots on the federated timeline that most of the relays provide nowadays.

- 🤖 Machine-learning enthusiast. I have published a book on it https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-6821-6, with simple computer vision exercises that can be run on a #RaspberryPi, and I did some academic research back in time where neural networks were still a green field https://fabiomanganiello.com/#research, and I never stop learning new stuff.

- 🧪️ Physics, chemistry, biology, maths and astronomy enthusiast.

- 🎵 Music addict, 🎸and 🎹 player, and occasional composer/producer You can find some of my music here https://open.spotify.com/artist/5H6BJfHec8qLnkm0S2HkxO and here https://soundcloud.com/blacklight01

- I may often write about random politics/economics/philosophy. I may sometimes be very passionate on topics such as open-source, open data, open protocols, tolerance and social inequalities. I mostly belong to the progressive/social-democratic field. You are welcome to try and change my mind, as long as you do it in a civilized and data-driven way.

- 🏄 and 🛹️ rider. And, as a good Dutch resident, 🚲 enthusiast.

- 👪 Full-time father.