Zac Boyd
Howdy!
I'm a 23 year old IT something-or-other from Adelaide in South Australia. I've worked in IT since I was about 16 in varying capacities, and I've done everything from desktop support, to network and systems architecture. I've been involved with Linux/FLOSS since roughly 2009, starting out with installing Ubuntu 9.04 from a CD I got with a copy of Linux Format.
Currently I'm in the middle of overhauling the IT infrastructure of my current employer - taking it from being a 100% Windows house into a clean and lean, AWS based 'nix house. I've been a Linux advocate for quite some time now and this is the second time I've spearheaded the process of ripping and replacing existing closed platforms with open ones.
My formal IT education focused almost entirely on RHEL and Windows server 2003, and guess which one I still use every day! When introducing new users to Linux, Fedora is always my go to choice for both desktop and server environments as I feel it provides a new-user friendly introduction to kickass platform.
Contact
- Email: mailto:zac@zacboyd.me
- IRC: synicalx, often loitering on #fedora, #fedora-ambassadors
- Fedora Account: synicalx Fedora Account System
Stuff I Do
- Linux server admin and engineering on a whole bunch of platforms/distros
- Squid, Samba, a whole host of monitoring tools (Nagios, Cacti etc), Quagga
- Network engineering and admin working mostly on Cisco and Juniper kit
- BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF etc normal SP stuff
- Perl! I'm a Perl fanboy, but certainly not an expert
- A smattering of;
- PHP, Ruby, Python, HTML/CSS
- SQL/MySQL admin work
- Telephony (unfortunately)
- UCCX, Call Manager etc usual Cisco stuff
- Atlassian;
- Building JIRA Core and JIRA SD platforms, Confluence, Bit Bucket
Activities within Fedora
Currently I've only been involved with Fedora in a very unofficial capacity;
- Introducing new users to Linux via Fedora
- Advocating for my favourite distro
- Making contributions to various blogs etc
My goal for 2015 is to make more of a measured and 'official' contribution to the Fedora Project;
- Advocating outside of my immediate interest group/current employer
- Encourage others to get involved with FLOSS/Open Source projects
- Host at least ONE public talk at a LUG