User:Linuxawy

I'm Ahmed Soliman Farghal A Software engineer at a major Belgian storage company, I'm a C++/Python/Java developer under GNU/Linux and I use Fedora on all of my machines.

I'd many sessions in Egypt universities, specially Mansoura University and trained over 250 people on Red Hat products where I used to work before, as a systems engineer in one of the major RedHat partners in the middle east.

Presentations I've launched in Egypt regarding Linux and Open Source:

  1. Windows vs. Linux - 2003.
  2. The Open Source Approach - 2004, 2005.
  3. Linux Installation Festival - 2005.
  4. SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) - 2006.
  5. Secure Shell - 2007.
  6. What's so cool about python? (2009)

I'm also one of the first 7 certified engineers from RedHat in Egypt (RHCE) since RHEL 3.0 and RHCT since RedHat 9.0

Open Source projects that I launched and maintain:

 1. Antinetcut (http://code.google.com/p/antinetcut)
 2. RbTrees (http://code.google.com/p/rbtrees)
 3. J-Islamic (http://code.google.com/p/j-islamic/)
 4. CAT-SCMP (http://scmp.cat-hackers.net)
 5. cppThreads (http://code.google.com/p/cppthreads) (NEW)
 6. Networkify (http://www.networkify.com)

I've also worked on enterprise deployments/training based on RedHat Linux and Fedora on the following locations:

 1. The Central Bank Of Egypt
 2. The American University in Egypt
 3. Amer Group
 4. Egyptian Ministry of Defense
 5. Vodafone Egypt
 6. Oracle Egypt

I'm the founder and manager of cat-hackers.net and catreloaded.net a opensource community in mansoura university.

I'm highly accessible and you can reach me through my eMail me@ahmedsoliman.com and if you need more information about me you can visit my blog on http://www.ahmedsoliman.com