thanatermesis@gmail.com
My name is Samuel, known on internet as Thanatermesis. I was born in 1980 in Belgium and grew up in Barcelona. At 24 years old, I started developing Elive and learned everything by myself, developing my skills. Since then, I have lived in different places around the wOrld.
Spanish: Native
French: Native
English: Advanced and fluid
Catalan: Perfect understanding, medium speaking
Italian: Basic
From a work point of view, I am interested in computers, human-computer interfaces, visual representation of information, design, and creativity. I believe that we can absorb much more information in a much faster way if we are able to represent it in a visually optimized manner.
I have a general interest in psychology and sociology, and I'm a strong believer in a higher level of society improving human knowledge.
And finally, for leisure, I love traveling and discovering new things, listening to music, and I enjoy solitude and peaceful moments.
I’m intuitive and logical at the same time, I always try to find optimal or different ways of solving problems, I think that I’m resourceful in this aspect.
I'm also:
This is a list of personality traits that I think that could define myself pretty well:
| [x] Accept criticism | [x] Adaptable | [ ] Ambitious |
| [ ] Assertive | [x] Competent | [x] Confident |
| [x] Conscientious | [x] Creative | [ ] Dependable |
| [ ] Diplomatic | [x] Easy-going | [x] Efficient |
| [x] Energetic | [ ] Enthusiastic | [ ] Flexible |
| [x] Friendly | [x] Helpful | [x] Honest |
| [x] Intelligent | [ ] Loyal | [ ] Motivated |
| [x] Open-minded | [x] Organized | [ ] Patient |
| [x] Persistent | [x] Problem-solver | [x] Productive |
| [ ] Punctual | [x] Quick learner | [ ] Rarely absent |
| [x] Reliable | [x] Resourceful | [ ] Responsible |
| [ ] Take direction | [x] Tenacious | [x] Trustworthy |
| [x] Understanding | [x] Versatile | [x] Intuitive |
| [ ] Accept responsibility | [x] Analyze data | [ ] Articulate speaker |
| [x] Assessing others | [x] Compile information | [x] Counseling others |
| [x] Creative | [ ] Customer/client service | [x] Delegate duties |
| [x] Develop goals | [ ] Develop relationships | [ ] Edit materials |
| [x] Evaluate ideas | [x] Friendly | [x] Get results |
| [ ] Good listener | [x] Instruct others | [ ] Interview/hire people |
| [x] Logical thinker | [ ] Manage a budget | [x] Manage projects |
| [ ] Mediate | [ ] Meet deadlines | [ ] Mentor others |
| [ ] Motivate others | [ ] Negotiate agreements | [x] Organizing data |
| [ ] Plan events | [ ] Public speaking | [x] Research information |
| [ ] Run meetings | [ ] Sell ideas/products | [x] Strong, clear writer |
Even though I’m very realistic regarding the real world, I have a dreamy imagination so I’m always trying to extend my possibilities to new horizons.
My main and most important skillset obtained over the years is is related to the linux operating system and specially debian-based system. For a better overview of the things that I can accomplish is better to see the WORKS section.
All my learning was obtained when I started making the GNU/Linux operating system “Elive”, which started around the year 2003 under a different name. It was my learning platform and also my best historically proof CV. I learned and enjoyed improving the system on every side and implemented own ideas on it, creating different concepts for a better usability keeping it user-friendly for any kind of user. The need to adapt every different part of the system to the wanted needs pushed me to learn new things every day. I enjoyed designing new concepts and sharing these results with the world.
I'm more in the sense of a multi-disciplinary person, because I have not focused all the learning curve to a unique topic, instead, I needed to deal with lots of different situations and elements of the operating system in every sense that appeared. This made me a Linux expert, with strong knowledge in administration, designing the system, dealing and predicting bugs, user-experience and ease-to-use, and packaging elements of the system
Because of the need to manage lots of different things I never specialised in any specific programming language, except for my most used ones.
I use Bash more than C as I find it faster to obtain the same solutions, considering options like: speed of development, required interface, complexity, and my familiarity with the language
The adventure of making Elive pushed me to acquire miscellaneous general experience of every different topic, the most notable ones:
All my knowledge has been learned self-taught, but let's focus about the process which made me learn about computers:
My first computer was at the age of 12, and the first contact with the open source world with 18. Without internet connection surprisingly it was when I learned the most about it. One day, a system called Knoppix appeared which I really liked; a completely different concept, but I was not happy with the common environment and its usability was not enough for me, this is when I decided to modify it to my own vision. I was very happy with the result and wanted to make a similar version to share with the world.
I was living on Belgium at that time with enough free time available, out of internet and without stress my working environment was purely the terminal without graphical interface, on a 300 Mhz / 200 Mb RAM computer. Surprisingly, this is computer is the one where I made the first versions of Elive. The reason why I worked on Console was just because I was never satisfied by the graphic system and I was happier with it, being able to do many different kinds of things (even watching videos, browsing the net, viewing images, etc.)
For the next years and with connection to internet my full time work was with Elive, on which I needed to deal with all the existing tasks, assisting the users with their problems or questions, and developing new implementations into the system. This has remained like this up to these days.
Invited to multiple Open-Source events, like the LinuxConf in Barcelona or the Debconf of 2009
Founder and developer of Elive for more than 15 years, a well-known linux distribution used by thousands of people around the world. Managing the entire project and its development on my own.
I have been an official Enlightenment collaborator for many years, specially for small improvements and fixes, reporting bugs, beta-testing, and a couple of redesigns and new features.
As I use Debian as the base for Elive, I have a thorough understanding of it. Although this relationship is unofficial, I try to participate when needed in different projects, in particular Debian Live.
Some freelance works that I have made for other enterprises:
Email: thanatermesis@gmail.com.
