Hello everyone,
Allow me to express how honored I feel for being able to write this, I hope the following e-mail is structured properly and I've added all the information you need.
Name - Dimitar Ivanov
Time Zone / Country - Bulgaria, GMT +2
Basic skills and experiences
QA guy by profession, going through a re-specialization as part of the Operations team at the company I work for;
System administrator by hobby and passion. A bit of Bash knowledge, currently doing some Python courses to enhance my skills for automating tasks.
Why are you joining?
I've always been a fan of the Open Source idea and community, Linux in particular. While by no means I'd call myself a power user, I'd say I have a little bit of a knowledge about this and that.
I've been hopping among different distros through the years, mainly *ubuntu but I only felt home when I switched to Fedora from CentOS 7. Since I get such a great OS, and all of its perks, for free, I felt a desire to give back and hopefully contribute to it and help with its growth.
Reliability and infrastructure has been something I really like working on so I decided to give it a try and apply for the Fedora Infrastructure team.
As my career is slowly taking a turn in that direction, I hope I will be able to apply everything I learn, both at work and and in my free time, and my skills will prove valuable to this project.
What are you looking to do?
Help out with the maintenance of the infrastructure in the face of keeping servers and services up and running, building tools that will make everyone's life easier, help with documentation and hopefully be knowledgeable and skillful enough to be on the front line in case of outages or critical issues that need attention.
How much time can you contribute?
15 to 20 hours, maybe more depending on my work schedule.
Your IRC handle - winterchillz
What skills you have to offer and which you would like to learn:
Basic knowledge of Bash, MySQL, git, subversion, Python, Nagios, Apache;
Saddened to say I don't feel an expert in any those.
If you decide I might be a valuable asset to the team, I think it'd be good to start off with maybe getting familiar with the infrastructure, services and the related documentation.
Thank you for taking your time to read through my e-mail. Feel free to ask any questions and I'll gladly answer. Any criticism is also more than welcome.
Of course, if you believe I'm not suitable for this responsibility, I'll understand and hopefully we'll meet again when I improve my skills. :)
With best regards,
Dimitar
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