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Deanna
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Introduce yourself to the Community

Welcome to the Red Hat Learning Community! As we build a diverse community dedicated to collaborative, open source learning, let's get to know more about each other. Reply to this post with details about yourself, your background,  the skills you want to develop (or have developed ), career stories, favorite Red Hat courses, fun facts and anything else you may want to share with your fellow RHLC community members! 

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Deanna
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Hello, Just and old developer looking forward to learing more, especially excited about AI

Winsock
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Hello Red Hat Learning Community!

I'm Aaron Ferguson, an Enterprise Systems Architect, Kernel Engineer and everything in between at Open Research and Development Laboratories (ORDL), from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania - East Coast, USA. I’m thrilled to join this community of innovators and open-source enthusiasts! We've always heard of the hatters, now we can become one, with the legacy of IBM and the credentials of the leading pioneers for all things enterprise-grade, open source and production ready, let's get it.

With a deep rooted passion for free and open-source software (FOSS), I specialize in Linux kernel development, concurrency, memory management, and dynamic systems design, plus many other things - not limited to? Lol. My journey in tech is self-taught, spanning every programming language from C (my go-to), to Java (A favorite), to Ada (Yikes), and even x86_64 assembly for those low-level challenges and data structure designs. As a systems architect, I focus on building modular, maintainable, and future ready solutions. Whether it’s enterprise-grade software, network security, structural integrity / solutions, microservices / systems - anything, all the way to / from game development. I believe in paving smooth paths for others through solid foundations, integrity, and well I guess clean code - readable, manageable, and expandable - lots of uh bulls there, but sounds about right. Totally plausible, always - Pioneering by boldly venturing into uncharted territory with visionary ideas (You can leave the ideas at home, just bring your keyboard we got this - something will happen), Engineering through rigorous first principles, problem solving to create practical solutions, and Architecting by designing scalable, sustainable systems that ensure long-term impact and adaptability. This is a fun way to tell yourself you might be on to something or you're insane, either way keep it pushing. Let others decide that non-sense and see where it goes, worst thing that can happen is you're a few thousand lines deep and you have no clue where, what, why you were doing this in the first place.

Beyond the terminal, I’m a teacher in my local community AKA family, discord, and anyone interested enough to ask what's up. Sharing knowledge on systems administration and software engineering, can teach you Linux in 24 hours solid, you'll install from baseline nothing to full WM/DE (I say this from experience - one dedicated person and 24 hours, the systems yours). Can have you up and writing code by yourself in 2, pick a language (Please don't say C++). I’m also a PROUD FATHER - who isn't right? Legit the best thing accomplished ever. I have a son and he's 8, we do all kinds of things together, everyday - all day. He's a gamer so I don't have to be, we work on cars, we do all things grow - indoor and outdoor, we both enjoy outdoors as much as anyone else when it isn't death out there. I try to be mom and dad at the same time but just end up failing so we just stick with best friends - it's easier that way for the both of us. He's not picked up on why I find programming so fascinating, but he does like LEGOs and lincoln logs, so that's a start! I'm a night-owl, and a "Midnight Toker" when brainstorming new ideas or whatever the mood is. My interests extend to fields like quantum computing, where I’m exploring how probabilistic algorithms can optimize system performance, and AI, where I’m fascinated by its potential to enhance developer workflows without replacing human ingenuity.

At ORDL, I wear many hats, executive, engineer, developer, security advocate, innovator and pioneer. I’m here to collaborate, discuss, and contribute to the Red Hat ecosystem. Whether it’s kernel tweaks, scalable architectures, or just geeking out over open source possibilities and/or chit-chatting, I’m all in. Let’s build a better world for them, through code or any other means, together, from us. Full force - all systems are a go, I repeat, all systems are a go.

After reading this and others, yikes I may have over done it. I was really relying on a template or something, but oh well here she is. Also if you wanna know anything else feel free to get ahold of me I'm open. Uh oh, it said invalid HTML during preview, I entered no HTML. If it's janky or things have been removed that's on the hatters, lol. I really am not about to read this over again, I'm sure it's good enough. Good luck.

Looking forward to connecting, collaborating, or just being here with the hatters.
Winsock
Aaron Ferguson
[ORDL] |RT|BT|FOSS| Concurrency | Dynamics | Memory Space

Open Research and Development Laboratories
Enterprise Systems Architect
Kernel Engineer
|RH|FOSS|
Concurrency | Dynamics | Mutants | Memory Space
Winsock
Flight Engineer
Flight Engineer
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Guess it would help if I said how old I was, lmao. I'm 32 this month, on the 23rd.

Open Research and Development Laboratories
Enterprise Systems Architect
Kernel Engineer
|RH|FOSS|
Concurrency | Dynamics | Mutants | Memory Space
TudorRaduta
Community Manager
Community Manager
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Hey Aaron! what an introduction! You’ve clearly got a deep passion for tech, open source, and helping others grow. We’re lucky to have someone with your range and energy in the community. 

Looking forward to learning from you and seeing where your contributions take us. Welcome again!

Winsock
Flight Engineer
Flight Engineer
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I'm more excited to be here than you are to have me, trust me! Let me know where I can be of assistance and I'll gladly venture that way.

Open Research and Development Laboratories
Enterprise Systems Architect
Kernel Engineer
|RH|FOSS|
Concurrency | Dynamics | Mutants | Memory Space
Chetan_Tiwary_
Community Manager
Community Manager
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@Winsock Great to have you here !

Winsock
Flight Engineer
Flight Engineer
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Thanks! I'm absolutely in love, always have been. Hands on personal use is the best thing I could have asked for, it's not the same under contract or for another entity. I think I've slept like 6 hours in the past 30 couple just reinstalling RHEL over and over again, making sure to meet each compliance and taking it further each time. As far as securily downloading, verifying, maintaining, staging, executing manually downloaded releases / installs or source for tools, applications, etc. Setting up a scalable development environment in memory space. Group based directory authorization and permissions inside of the development environment governed by SELinux and AIDE. Audited and in full compliance with more than one security profile / hardening. GUI server install to minimal setup install, with anaconda GUI and text, no kickstart file yet - don't see the point when you can breeze by with a command line install or GUI install and do all post installion prior first boost configuration in another TTY after install completion. Utilizing systemd and .mount service files for all things memory space and scalable. Boat load more! All to develop on baby.

Open Research and Development Laboratories
Enterprise Systems Architect
Kernel Engineer
|RH|FOSS|
Concurrency | Dynamics | Mutants | Memory Space
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Hello, all! I'm one of those people who love to read up on tech forums, particularly web hosting. I'm always interested in knowing how most reliable dedicated server hosting  go about maximizing performance, security, and user experience on various platforms.

Winsock
Flight Engineer
Flight Engineer
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Well if you have or get any questions, want to know the latest innovation(s) in development, curious to know what is standard today, changing the future for a better tomorrow. BY ALL MEANS get in touch with me or any of the other mad hatters around here! 

Welcome, welcome by the way!

~ Winsock

Open Research and Development Laboratories
Enterprise Systems Architect
Kernel Engineer
|RH|FOSS|
Concurrency | Dynamics | Mutants | Memory Space
FreemanBoss
Mission Specialist
Mission Specialist
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I am a software engineer, with experience in fullstack(angular and fastapi), cloud, devops, and an opensource contributor. I am a member of openifra and a contributor to openstack Ironic. I hail from Nigeria and it is a pleasure being part of this vibrant community. I have been keened learning from the redhat courses especially those which involve openstack/openshift.

Freeman
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