About Me

My name is Antonio Angelotti, mechanical engineer. For over 20 years, I have designed, managed and secured digital infrastructures and mission-critical networks. I currently work as an Enterprise Service Management Developer at UNICC (United Nations International Computing Centre), the IT agency of the United Nations system, after holding technical and strategic roles in healthcare environments and tech organizations across Europe and America.

I began my career in GNU/Linux administration, later developing expertise in networking (CCNP, Juniper), IT security, asset management and ServiceNow development, where I have earned several official certifications. For more than eight years, I provided Linux support for Flightradar24, managing the monitoring of over 15,000 ADS-B/GPS receivers with Bash and Python scripts. In that context, I also designed a low-cost open source ADS-B receiver — 3D-printed enclosure, Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR and a fully open software stack — demonstrating a scalable and community-replicable solution.

Projects

The projects I have developed show quite well how I like to work: combining data, automation, simple interfaces and real-world use cases.

MeteoPomarico is my long-running weather project, online since 2011. It collects local weather data from a station in Pomarico, forecasts, alerts, historical data, EUMETSAT satellite imagery processed by me and 24-hour animations generated with FFmpeg.

LecceMeteo is the weather portal dedicated to Lecce and Salento. It was born as a natural evolution of the experience gained with MeteoPomarico, but with its own identity: local data, forecasts, air quality, pollen, alerts, satellite imagery and a sea section dedicated to Salento beaches.

LecceMeteo App is the Android app connected to LecceMeteo. It brings live weather, forecasts, sea conditions, beaches, smart notifications, widgets, a weather diary and daily-use features directly to the phone.

AirFareTracking is a free Telegram bot for searching flights, monitoring routes and receiving notifications when prices drop below a chosen threshold. It started from a personal need and became a tool available to everyone.

SalentoSec is a non-profit cybersecurity community born in Salento. The project brings together awareness, resources, events and an educational CTF designed to introduce people to cybersecurity in a practical and ethical way.

Kernel H is my musical alter ego: a creative project where terminals, networks, servers and computing culture become songs, between electronic music, synth sounds and digital imagination.

CasaCheck is an Android app designed for people visiting properties to buy. It helps evaluate a house with a clear method, using guided checklists, scores, property comparison, practical tools and PDF reports.

FlightNav GPS is an Android app for knowing where you are during a flight. It uses the phone’s GPS to show position, route, altitude, speed, logbook, replay and flight export, even in airplane mode.

Community, Flying and Passions

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I contributed — as president of BASLUG, the Basilicata GNU/Linux Users Group, which I have chaired since 2001, and through Officine Mediterranee, an independent collective founded in 2020 together with fablabs, makerspaces and hackerspaces — to the production of thousands of 3D-printed protective face shields and respiratory valves for hospitals and Civil Protection teams in Basilicata. The face shields and valves were validated by medical teams and distributed in the field; UNICC published the details in an official article.

In November 2019, I designed and led the entire process — from coordination with UNGSC, ARISS, ESA and NASA to student preparation — that enabled more than 300 students from the European High School of Brindisi to speak by radio with Commander Luca Parmitano aboard the International Space Station, discussing climate change as observed from space. Nearly 2,000 people followed the event live on YouTube. UNICC covered the project in a dedicated report.

I am a commercial helicopter pilot with IFR rating, with more than 250 command hours on A-109, Bell 407, AS-350, R-22 and HU-269 — a license I obtained after ranking among the top candidates out of more than one hundred applicants. I have experience as a lifeguard, I am a licensed radio amateur and a certified drone pilot.

I have a strong passion for meteorology: I process EUMETSAT satellite imagery with Python and Bash and manage a professional weather station. I applied the same expertise in an experimental project for United Nations missions, building an open source pipeline on Debian with Pytroll and Satpy for acquiring meteorological satellite data.

I also hold an unlimited nautical license and I am passionate about cycling and sports in general. And if there is one thread connecting everything — from code to flying, from the open sea to satellites — it is the curiosity to understand how things work.

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