Amit Caleechurn
Contact
- Email: [[MailTo(acaleechurn AT fedoraproject DOT org)]
- Fedora Account: Acaleechurn
- Web Page: http://www.gnulinux.mu
- IRC: acaleechurn (#fedora)
- Facebook Group: Fedora Mauritius
Bio
Amit Caleechurn born in 1982 in Mauritius, lives at Quatre Bornes. His first experience with IT started at the age of 11, discovered Linux in 1999 and fell instantly in love with it. Quickly got accustomed with the basics, followed his first Administration course in 2001, security followed shortly, took some months' holidays from work last year to complete his RHCE (805007092328507)in India. Currently working on achieving RHCA, has already completed RHS333 & RH423. Shortly after completing his certification he left the Casino and moved to a Software Technology Provider. He was previously responsible for assembling & programming slot machines and surveillance systems having followed courses in these fields in Singapore, Russia and Ukraine. His interest has always been with Open Source technologies and it finally had the better of him. Currently he implements all Open Source technologies in his company starting from Samba PDC/FDS, mail servers to server consolidation using Xen. He is also a part time lecturer teaching Linux (Red Hat/CentOS & Fedora) administration to professionals from various companies willing to make the switch. He has been a user of Fedora since Core 1 and admires the work the fedora team makes to bring cutting edge technology to end users.
Areas of Expertise
- Samba
- Fedora Directory Server
- Virtualization
- Web Server
- Tuning
- Troubleshooting
Programming Languages
- Bash
- Perl
Languages
- English
- French
- Hindi
Courses/Certifications
- Novell Data Center Technical Specialist (DC Tech Spec)
- Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA)
- Linux Professional Institute (LPIC-1)
- Enterprise Network Security & Management (AUF Transfer 1.3)
- Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services & Authentication (RH423)
- Red Hat Enterprise Security & Network Services (RHS333)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5)
- Linux Advanced Administration
- Linux Advanced Mail Administration
- Linux Firewall Solution
- Linux System and Network Administration
- Programming with Perl
- Bash Scripting Essentials
Novel Certification: http://www.novell.com/community/cert
LPI Certification: https://cs.lpi.org/caf/Xamman/certification
Objectives
Promote the use of Linux in Mauritius
Organize Install Fests and Distribute free DVDs
Write Technical articles for Mauritian Linux users