Hi Folks,

Let me introduce myself.
My name is Benjamin Pereto and i'm a young system admin / system engineer from Switzerland.
That all clichés are complete, I work for my bread and water as a system specialist in a bank. There, I'm responsible for all linux servers, mostly redhat. But I also get to know fedora and other distributions.

I don't now if its the same by you, I had an apprentice (trainee) 2008. Time by time I achieved the RHCE and now I want to contribute back, what helped me to learn and work with awesome linux.

So my skills, earned by work or leisure are, base OS maintaining, such as installation, administration, deploying, software integration.
Most common use is java, so i work with httpd, jboss, tomcat aswell the squid proxy infrastructure with dns.

The Hardware which linux runs is HP Proliant Systems, and the virtualization is mostly vmware. Incidentally I work on Sun SPARC or AIX from IBM. 

What is a sysadmin/engineer without programming, right?
I know shell scripting very well. Others are the web (php, html(5), css, jquery) or java (android sdk).
At the moment i'm trying python.

I would like to learn more from a open source project. As well this is the first time i want to work in an community and a look behind the walls. I see what happens.
I'm expect to learn new programming languages and more automation and improve my understanding new technologies. The automation at my work is not really good - time to change (wink)?

For taking the firsts steps, a minimum of 4-6 hours a week is not a problem, but depends of the amount of work. At the trac I saw one, two tickets, but I really want get to know some more.

Feel free to contact me, to get involved.

Regards,
Benjamin Pereto
IRC handle: nj0y