I am a Sustaining Engineer at Canonical, which is a position oriented towards code-maintenance. My main responsibilities include developing upstream fixes and backporting patches while considering potential regressions across all Ubuntu packages. Primarily, I focus on OpenStack and the Linux kernel. The work requires extensive troubleshooting and, moreover, diagnostics that are often collected after an incident occurs. In order to execute on these responsibilities, there are several tools that are crucial for collecting the necessary information such as: sos (also frequently known as sosreport), crash, and makedumpfile. During my tenure, I have developed an interest and affinity for Debian packaging and have made contributions packaging sos to sid and trixie-backports through mentors.
Prior to working at Canonical, I was a student who developed a passion for open source while researching and implementing real-time machine learning algorithms to recognize gestures and actuate signals using Robotic Operating System (ROS) on Ubuntu. I have also previously worked as a SysAdmin on a fleet of Debian and FreeBSD hosts, managing a variety of web applications and IoT integrations.
Bryan Fraschetti