Who am I?
The name is Grega Bremec, and according to some sources, I'm the worst sysadmin in the world although I only managed to irretrievably blow up the production database once in 15 years.
In reality, I'm a senior training consultant for Red Hat Middleware and DevOps courses, with bits of Cloud and Infrastructure, too. I am also an examiner and occasionally, content developer.
I currently hold Red Hat Certified Architect level VII and Red Hat Certified JBoss Developer level VII certifications.
My background?
I tried developing bug-free applications for a couple of years in the late 1990s, but I was told deadlines are not just some random dates and things are expected to be finished by then, so as a sign of disapproval, I stopped working in the bug production area and switched to the business of trying to keep applications running in spite of all the bugs, where I spent the next 15 years designing, deploying, automating, and managing various open-source (but also, not-so-open-source) solutions. I was quite happy. The DBA, needless to say, was not so very happy.
I started teaching in parallel to my day-job in early 2006, and eventually settled for a full-time teaching role where, due to my extensive background, I nowadays mostly teach custom courses based on Red Hat Learning materials.
My skills?
I can quite easily observe you devour whatsoever dessert you care to name and not for a second wish I had any of it (unless you consider cheese to be dessert - in that case I'm not talking to you anyway).
In addition to this very important life skill, I can read code and understand how it works, and see how to make it fit into the big picture and do its job. And then sort of explain that to others, which makes me a slightly better instructor than sysadmin. The added benefit is there are usually no production databases in classrooms.
My favourite courses?
My all-time favourite would have to be the Java EE development (both the old JB225 and the new JB183/JB283 combination). I particularly love the Eclipse Microprofile topics in relation to OpenShift (which makes JB283/DO292 another two favourites of mine).
What else?
In the little spare time that I have, I am your typical la-nuit-de-la-glisse - kitesurfing, snowkiting, wakeboarding, and snowboarding are about the only sports I really look forward to engaging in, unless grilling meat can also be classified as a sport - there is some sweating involved, so there.
A black cat crossing the street signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
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