[arch-devops] Junior DevOps application - Kristian Klausen

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 12.03.21 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

While technically not really part of the requirements we set ourselves 
for Junior DevOps [0], I suggest a discussion period of 14 days upon 
which Kristian will be made a Junior DevOps unless someone brings forth 
a good reason why that should not happen.

That said, I do confirm my sponsorship.

[0] 
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/blob/master/docs/becoming-devops.md

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