FlorianBrand

Florian Brand

Fedora Ambassador florian AT fedoraproject DOT org

Bio

Florian Brand joined the Red Hat Stuttgart office in 1999 and has since delivered RHCE and RHCA classes in more than 25 countries. He serves as subject matter expert and editor for several Red Hat courses. As Chief Instructor EMEA Florian Brand is the technical contact person for external instructors. He was first worldwide to complete the RHCA Certification. Before joining Red Hat Florian Brand studied Physics at the University of Würzburg. In the 'Analog World' he enjoys playing guitar and sports diving.

Areas of Expertise

• Red Hat Network
• HA Clustering/GFS
• Security
• Webserver
• System internals
• Tuning
• Troubleshooting

Programming Languages

• Bash
• PHP
• Perl
• Python
• C/C++

Selected Talks/Tutorials

• Automatisierte Installation mit Kickstart (Automated Installations with Kickstart) (LUGT 2000)
• Sicheres Netzwerken mit Linux (Secure Networking under Linux) (Linuxtag 2001)
• PAM für Nichtschwimmer (PAM for Nonswimmers) (Linuxtag 2002)
• File:FlorianBrand 12FragenZumThemaUpdates-LinuxTag2004.pdf 12 Fragen zum Thema Updates] (12 questions on the topic: Updates) (Linuxtag 2004)
• File:FlorianBrand FFG2005-PAM.pdf Pluggable Authentication Modules] (FFG 2005)
• File:FlorianBrand WegeAusDemUpdateDschungel-ASQF-2005.pdf Wege aus dem Update Dschungel] (Getting out of the Update Jungle) (ASQF 2005)
• Letzte Verteidigungslinie (File:FlorianBrand LastLineOfDefense2007.pdf Last Line of Defense] ) (Linuxtag 2006) (FFG 2007)

Certifications

• RHCE
• RHCX
• RHCA
• RHCSS

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Stuff I work on

Currently my time is mostly devoted to Red Hat Stuff.

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