Hi all,
My name is Ben Porter. I've been a Fedora user since the Gnome 2 days (Fedora 13). I used to distro hop a lot but always ended up back on Fedora due to a high level of alignment on philosophy between myself and the Fedora Project. I did have a sordid love affair with Arch for a few years on my personal laptop/desktop (although after about 6 months on Arch I came crawling back to "Beefy Miracle" when an X update trashed my system at the worst possible time. After that Fedora ran my work machine always). Around 2016 I nuked and paved the last remaining non-Fedora machine.
My background is in primarily software development all over the tech stack. C/C++, Ruby, _javascript_, Elixir, Go, and a few others. I've always been kind of a backend/infrastructure kind of guy but working at various startups I've had to wear hats. I'm a security nerd too. I did my masters in Cyber-security and typically specialize in security aspects of whatever product I'm working with. I did an associates in electrical engineering and worked as a hardware tech for a few years while getting a CS degree so I have an interest in hardware too. My current day job is as an architect for Red Hat doing OpenShift stuff. That includes a lot of automation, some development, and lots of architecture planning.
After many years of thinking about it, I'm finally getting involved in Fedora. I maintain a couple of RPM packages, one of which I want to get included in the repos because it belongs there (source is here: https://github.com/FreedomBen/pick-rpm). I expect to have to change stuff to make it work with Fedora's automated system but currently I just use Podman to crank out the builds. Besides maintaining that rpm package, I'm pretty open to helping out with other stuff time permitting. Here's my github if you want to look at some stuff I've done: https://github.com/freedomben
Anyway, I'm excited to be here and hopeful that I can do something to improve the best distro there is. If you need help with something hit me up and we can chat about it to see if I'd be a good fit.
Looking forward to "meeting" you,
Ben
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