Andrea was born in Brindisi (Italy) in 1987 and has tried a lot of distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva and so on, but openSUSE 10.1 was his first love and after that, he immediately started to read, and ask for help until in 2006 he started to help and to actively contribute to the openSUSE community.

Apart from being an openSUSE member, je is now involved in the Italian localization team (starting as translator and later as coordinator), maintains several packages in the Packman package repository and became openSUSE-Education administrator last year.