Introduce yourself to the Community

[Deanna]

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! 

This question is part of the 100K Member Contest - don't forget to kudo the original contest post to be entered. 

[jthiatt]

Hello.

My name is Jason Hiatt and I am from Indiana.

I am an infrastructure developer for a financial company.  I do lots of scripting and automation and I manage several OpenShift clusters.

I have been using Linux and Open Source software since the late 90s and have been an active member in the tech community.

I hope to get my RHCA this year and am currently studying for the EX405 exam.  In my free time I enjoy spending time with my family, golf and billiards.

[Acetech]

I am  Akash Suresh Solanke

Currently Studing in Final year Computer Science and Enginerring 

Certification 

                       RHCSA

                       CL110

                       DO180

                       EX280

Skills 

                       Docker

                       AWS

                       OpenShift

                       Kubernetes

[NickH]

I'm Nick, been signed up to RHLS for a good half hour now. Half an hour down, 365 days to go.

[Shailesh]

Hello,

Thanks for logging me in. I am Devops engineer with good experience on CD/CD etc. Looking for playing around on Ansible. 

[cschunke]

Hello Red Hat Learning Community! My name is Christopher Schunke, and I am the new Product Manager for the Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS). 

While I am relatively new to Red Hat products and services, I have spent the past 13 years in the IT training industry, working primarily in the Online Learning space. I hope to bring that expertise to the training platform and to the learning subscription. What I'm most excited about, is now having a direct line of communication to our users! In the spirit of Open, I'm excited to be a part of this community to gather your ideas and feedback on how to make RHLS successful for you and your training goals with Red Hat products. I will also be available to help the community work through issues, feedback and comments related to RHLS. 

I am thrilled to be a part of this community, and look forward to building the Red Hat Learning Subscription with you!

[NickH]

Sounds good. What plans do you have for RHLS, Christopher?
Any changes coming?
Free swag? Software upgrades? Course changes? Talking mice?

[cschunke]

Thanks for reaching out, Nick! There are a lot of changes coming to RHLS. We are working on an updated User Interface that will take into account some feedback we've been receiving from users. We will release updates to the community when those changes are announced. In addition, keep an eye out for surveys and polls asking the community what all of you would like to see addressed in some of the new features. I'm looking forward to keeping the community involved in the continued evolution of RHLS. 

As for the talking mice, I'm a little concerned that has gotten out already.... will have to check on internal leaks.....

[Valien]

Hello all,

SA with a RH Apex partner. Focusing mainly on emerging technologies like OpenShift and Ansible Automation.

In my career - mostly dev + ops so was doing the devops thing before the term was coined. Although in many silos as well...

Love learning and glad to be a part of the community!

~Allen

[NickH]

What is a Red Hat Apex Partner?

I found this, but I don't see the word 'apex'.

https://www.redhat.com/en/partners/partnerships

[Valien]

Yeah weird it's not on the main RH site but here's the blog post about it -- https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/strengthening-our-partner-ecosystem-north-america-partner-conference

TBH not sure if we're still called Apex partner. I'll leave that to the sales/C-level folks to figure it out. :)

As long as I get to play with Ansible and OpenShift then I'm happy!