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*Write technical articles/documentation for the community
*Write technical articles/documentation for the community


*Master and maintain a custom remix of Fedora called SnowBird Linux
*Master and maintain a remix of Fedora called SnowBird Linux @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/snowbird/




[[Category:Ambassadors from Mauritius]]
[[Category:Ambassadors from Mauritius]]

Revision as of 20:47, 8 August 2013

Amit Caleechurn

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Bio

Amit Caleechurn born in 1982 on the paradise island of Mauritius. His first experience with computers started at the age of 11, discovered Linux in 1999 and fell instantly in love. Quickly got accustomed to the basics, followed his first Linux Administration course in 2001, followed shortly by Linux Security, took some months' holidays from work in 2007 to complete his RHCE (805007092328507)in India. He completed his RHCSS/RHCDS in 2010 and is currently working on achieving RHCA, being just shy of one exam (EX442). Shortly after completing his RHCE certification he moved to a Software Technology Provider. He was previously responsible for assembling & programming slot machines and surveillance equipment, having followed courses in these fields in Singapore, Russia and Ukraine. He currently design/implement/maintain Open Source technology in his company starting from Samba PDC/389DS, mail/web servers to server consolidation using KVM. 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. He has written various articles about Linux distributions, virtualization, performance tuning, system automation, security and high availability.

Areas of Expertise

  • Fedora/RHEL/CentOS
  • Samba (cross platform integration)
  • 389DS/RHDS
  • FreeIPA
  • Spacewalk
  • Virtualization (Xen/KVM/oVirt)
  • Web and application servers
  • Tuning & troubleshooting
  • System automation and management

Programming Languages

  • Bash Essentials
  • Perl Essentials

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • Hindi

Courses/Certifications

  • Red Hat Certified Data Centre Specialist (RHCDS)
  • Red Hat Certified Security Specialist (RHCSS)
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE RHEL5)
  • 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)
  • Linux Advanced Administration
  • Linux Advanced Mail Administration
  • Linux Firewall Solution
  • Linux System and Network Administration
  • Programming with Perl
  • Bash Scripting Essentials

https://www.redhat.com/wapps/training/certification/verify.html?certNumber=805007092328507&verify=Verify

Novel Certification: http://www.novell.com/community/cert

LPI Certification: https://cs.lpi.org/caf/Xamman/certification

Objectives

  • Promote the use of Open Source software and Linux in Mauritius
  • Organize install fests and distribute free Fedora media
  • Write technical articles/documentation for the community