[arch-devops] Junior DevOps application - Kristian Klausen

[Frederik Schwan]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:40:45PM +0100, 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

I hereby confirm the sponsorship of Kristian

Frederik
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