Hi Paul, Welcome to the community! We'll see you around on all the channels :)
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 15:20:08 +0000, Paul Maconi, Jr. wrote: > Hello everyone! I'm Paul. Aggraxis is my username. Some of you may > know me from other places. If so, hello again! I want to say up front > that despite having been around the block a few times, this is my > very first time actually posting to a mailing list. I hope that this > message winds up being readable and finds you in good spirits. > > You can usually find me on Discord (Again, as Aggraxis), which is > probably my preferred chat platform these days just because of how > many other things seem to be tied in there. We use MS Teams at work. > (Eww, I know...) My first experience with Matrix was when I registered > my Fedora account and sought out the Fedora-join SIG to start the > onboarding workflow. It reminds me of IRC from back in the 90s, but > with some of its own quirks and oddities. I think it's fun that we > have so many different options because people of varying backgrounds > with different ideas decided to sit down and make something. > > I’m an 80’s kid who was a huge computer nerd growing up only to become > a professional computer nerd as an adult. I love tinkering and > experimenting. I grew up in a Commodore household (C64/128, several > Amigas), learned Windows out of an academic and professional necessity, > and eventually found myself tinkering with Debian and a few other > distributions in my late teens. Watching my first kernel compile was > an eye-opening experience. > > I spent about 7 years in the Networking world doing all things Cisco, > which I thoroughly enjoyed until I was responding to alerts at 2 AM > while trying to bottle feed my firstborn. During my time there I > developed an intimate working knowledge of all things routing and > switching (which has changed and evolved in some ways over the years, > other ways not so much). > > I spent about the next 7 years as a civil servant in the super boring, > but super lucrative (compared to my previous reimbursement at the time) > world of government acquisitions. The key takeaway from that time was > that it gave me the opportunity to refine my ability to translate > technical jargon into common language that targets managers and > decision makers. > > Since then I have been working for a series of defense contractors (my > current employer is amazing) serving as an system administrator on the > core infrastructure team for a series of software test systems. I work > with VMware products, possibly Proxmox soon, Windows (client and > server), RHEL (7, 8, and 9), Ubuntu, NetApp storage arrays, and a bunch > of other fun stuff like Ansible (I could write YAML playbooks all day > long and be happy) as well as lots and lots of STIG work. > (Yuck, but it pays the bills!) > > I know enough Python to be dangerous in the workplace. I became curious > after my initial exposure to Ansible. I took C,C++, and Java back in > my college days, but I doubt I could reliably create something useful > using that knowledge these days. We use an internal gitlab server in > the office, so I'm familiar enough with git to do things like create > branches and submit merge requests, but some of the other things you > can do just haven't popped up in my day-to-day experiences yet. > > I’ve been doing that long enough that now I’m ‘the boss’ for the team > of contractors supporting the ongoing work there. I spent a lot of time > hiring and mentoring new talent coming in, trying to develop the next > batch of mad computer scientists to take things to the next level. I > should note that I am volunteering entirely in my personal capacity, > and my involvement does not constitute any kind of endorsement by my > employer or our customer(s). Even so, I am very glad to be here! > > I use Fedora on my laptop at home. Yeah, we also still have Windows in > the house. It pays to stay proficient with the systems you work with. > I also have a small homelab setup where I run a few VMs. (I just > finished moving everything at home from VMware to Proxmox as a > learning/fun exercise.) I also do a bit of gaming in my spare time, but > I’m at that point where I’m looking to put some of that time and energy > back into something Good. Hopefully you’ll see me out and about > somewhere in the Fedora community! > -- > _______________________________________________ > fedora-join mailing list -- fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to fedora-join-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London
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