Personal Profile
Name: Salim Badakhchani
Time Zone/Country: GMT United Kingdom
Basic skills and experiences: Release configuration management.
Reason for joining: To further contribute to the community.
Goals and Aims: Learn how to better utilise Fedora. Introduce Fedora and the Fedora project to others and have them adopt it for their computing needs.
Contact Details
IRC: sbadakhc
IRC Channels: brno mcr jobss jbossas jbossqa jbosssoa java prod fedora
Twitter: sbadakhchani
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sbadakhchani
Brief
Certified I.T. professional, with over 15 years of industry experience, specialising in the banking and telecommunications industry. Passionate supporter of the Free and Open Source software and early adopter and advocate those technologies.
Advocacy Achievements
2008 - Acision adopts RHEL and HP c7000 blade enclosure for the Next Generation Platform (NGP) Voice mail offering.
2005 - Royal Bank of Scotland's Linux Early Adopters Program (LEAP) chooses RHEL for its fixed income and derivatives trading platform.
2003 - University College London deploys High performance cluster running Red Hat 7.1 used to speed up gene sequencing lead times.
Fedora Project
I hope to spend more time on Fedora projects with a focus on release configuration management and associated tools. I have a keen interest with embedded mobile technology offerings and would like to continue my advocacy work for both Fedora and Red Hat.