[arch-devops] Junior DevOps application - Kristian Klausen

[Kristian Klausen]

On 12.03.2021 23.40, Kristian Klausen via arch-devops wrote:
> Hi
>
> My name is Kristian Klausen (known as klausenbusk on most platforms). 
> I'm currently taking a break from studying and is currently working 
> part-time as a Linux sysadmin/developer and enjoying life.
>
> I have been running Arch Linux since late 2012 and ran Ubuntu and 
> Debian before that. Since then I have been contributing to different 
> open-source projects[1][2], often as drive-by patches, and I maintain 
> my own little open-source project flathub-stats[3].
>
> At work I have been installing and maintaining the Debian 
> infrastructure and digital signage solution (also Debian) since ~2015, 
> as part of that I also backported a few Debian packages in 
> ~2016[4][5]. We also use k8s (kubeadm on Debian servers), Docker, 
> GitLab CI, PHP, shell scripting and I got a lot of my experience from 
> that job.
>
> My more direct involvement with Arch started in late July 2020 when I 
> joined #archlinux-devops and "complained" about something and 
> svenstaro then decided to create a GitLab account for me[6]. Since 
> then I have been contributing to the infrastructure project[7], often 
> mail, Keycloak or terraform related changes. In the same period I also 
> contributed to the arch-boxes project[8] and basically 
> refactored/rewrote a big chunk of it.
>
> I don't have a lot of reasons why I contribute to open-source, 
> basically it is fun and I enjoy contributing (and often I need the 
> feature/issue fixed). The same applies for my arch contributions, but 
> it wasn't just a single "drive-by patch" this time, which is probably 
> due to the community factor and that I find infrastructure work 
> interesting.
>
> If I become a Junior DevOps I hope I can ease the burden on the 
> existing team, by being able to work on issues which requires some 
> kind of access[9] and help with day-to-day maintenance. Among other 
> things, I hope to help with the mail related stuff[10](I have been 
> running my own mail server on Arch for a few years) and just general 
> infrastructure stuff (nginx, monitoring, networking, you name it).
>
> SPONSORS:
> - Sven-Hendrik Haase (svenstaro)
> - Jelle van der Waa (jelle)
> - Frederik Schwan (freswa)
>
> [1] https://github.com/klausenbusk/
> [2] 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=Kristian+Klausen
> [3] https://github.com/klausenbusk/flathub-stats/
> [4] 
> https://tracker.debian.org/news/768744/accepted-connman-132-01bpo81-source-amd64-all-into-jessie-backports-jessie-backports/
> [5] 
> https://tracker.debian.org/news/776042/accepted-cmst-20160403-2bpo81-source-amd64-into-jessie-backports/
> [6] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/klausenbusk/
> [7] 
> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/commits/master?author=Kristian%20Klausen
> [8] 
> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-boxes/-/commits/master?author=Kristian%20Klausen
> [9] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/288
> [10] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/50
>
>
> Best regards
> - Kristian Klausen

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