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! 

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[srmzln]

Another boring sysadmin Happy to join the Community.

[TudorRaduta]

Glad you’re here! Boring sysadmins are the backbone of everything that works! Welcome to the community!

[gazi-mohib]

Hi, I'm Gazi Mohib, living in Liverpool, United Kingdom originally from Bangladesh. I'm working as software engineer for more that 5 years. My core experience on Java backend development and mobile application development. 

Recently, I have been facinated by Red Hat System Administrator and parepared for it. My ultimate goal is to become a DevOps Engineer. I would love to explore different  Red Hat certifcations related to it.

[TudorRaduta]

Hey Gazi - welcome! It’s awesome to hear about your journey from backend and mobile dev into the Red Hat world. Your goal to become a DevOps Engineer sounds spot on, and there’s a lot in the Red Hat ecosystem to help you get there. Keep exploring, and don’t hesitate to share your progress or ask for tips, we’re all learning together here!

[gazi-mohib]

Sure! That's really means a lot to me. 

[ynouri313]

Hello guys, 
Very happy and excited to join the Redhat Learning Community:

$ cat /etc/profile  

# NAME: Yassine Nouri  

# ROLE: Senior Automation & Infrastructure Engineer  

# UPTIME: 13+ years (and counting)

# 2 master degrees (3rd in progress )  

# LICENSE: Open-Source Mindset  

$ locate me

Canada

$ rpm -qa | grep -i "certifications"  

RHCE-2025       # Red Hat Certified Engineer  2013 - renewed 2025

RHCSA-2025      # Red Hat Certified SysAdmin  2012 - renewed 2025

PagerDuty-2022  # Incident Management

CKA-2021        # Certified Kubernetes Administrator  

$ systemd-analyze blame  

# 6 years spent teaching Linux & DevOps  

# 5 years automating at scale in production  

# 0 downtime on career growth  

$ ansible all -m ping -a "msg='Can automate this?'"  

SUCCESS => {  

  "automation": "Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes",  

  "cloud": "AWS",  

  "scripting": "Bash, Python",  

  "legacy_but_gold": "Bash one-liners"  

}  

$ journalctl -u career --since "2012" --no-pager  

# Promoted from SysAdmin → Tech Lead  

# Mentored 100+ students (6 years teaching)  

# Incident firefighter (but prefers prevention)  

$ sudo make impact --role=niit-redhat  

# Ready to optimize your infrastructure!  

[TudorRaduta]

What an awesome way to introduce yourself—love the creativity and depth! Welcome to the community, Yassine!

[ynouri313]

Thank you Tudor  

[Miracle27]

Hello,

I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. I have had an interest in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for several years. I am currently studying for the RHCSA certification in hopes to learn more about RHEL.

[TudorRaduta]

@Miracle27 great to have you here, best of luck with your RHCSA journey! Don’t hesitate to share your progress or questions along the way!