Jose Miguel Parrella has been involved in the world of open source since he was 14,during his freshman year at college. In Venezuela, he's worked for the Intellectual PropertyOffi ce, the National Electric Corporation, and other government entities, leading several Linuxbasedprojects.He was the CTO of an open source consulting fi rm in Venezuela and Ecuador, helping to growthe business and developing a strong team that delivered dozens of successful Linux projects,including the architecture, development, and release of Canaima National GNU/Linux 2.0distribution of Venezuela used in over two million netbooks. He is currently on an assignmentas an open source Specialist for a large IT company in the United States.Since 2005, Jose Miguel has been involved in the Debian Project, speaking at severalDebConfs, and became a Debian Developer in 2007. He uploaded Nginx 0.4 on the Debianarchive in 2006.In addition to workshops and keynotes delivered across the globe and publications, such asthe Rapid Distribution Deployment whitepaper, Jose Miguel has been a technical reviewer fortwo Packt Publishing books on Nginx and is currently working on other titles related to opensource software.His opinions in this book or elsewhere don't necessarily represent the views of his past orpresent employers and/or the Debian Project.
