Hi everyone,
I'm Brian, 32 years of age and I come from the beautiful west coast of Ireland.
Currently working as a software engineer and living in Dublin, Ireland. Interests (outside
of tech) include photography, rugby, cooking, reading, coffee, casual gaming & taking
my cat, Toddy, for walks.
I have been trying to remember when I first came across the Fedora project. I think it was
about 8 or 9 years ago while I was working at my first company - all of the workstations
had CentOS 6 installed which was nice and stable but I was looking for something with
fresher packages and my search quickly led me to Fedora. I have been pretty much using
Fedora as my main OS since then. These days I'm running a number of Fedora variants
here at home including Silverblue, Workstation, Server and ARM. Fedora has allowed me to
learn so much over the years and that is one of the reasons why I want to contribute
back.
My day job involves working with the KubeVirt community as one of the CI maintainers for
the project so I do have some experience working with open source software communities.
Most of my previous work has been focused around the areas of CI/CD, Automation, Tooling
and Infrastructure (including production cloud and bare-metal environments). I am also
reasonably comfortable with Go, Rust and Python. I would be interested in contributing to
Fedora in these areas but also in other areas of the project such as Docs and QA.
For communication platforms, I have experience using mailing lists and I find them quite
useful. No strong feelings towards any chat platforms really. I have joined Matrix so you
should be able to find me there(brianmcarey).
Initially I would be looking to commit to about 4 hours a week and depending on how that
goes maybe increase it over time. If anyone has a good first issue which they think might
be a nice fit for me after that brief introduction, please let me know. For now, I am
going to join a few of the relevant mailing lists & matrix rooms to get a better idea
of the processes and how the community works together.
Kind regards,Brian
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