Hello and welcome, Andrew. Good bug reports are always needed. Thanks.
Lukas Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Wednesday, October 7th, 2026 at 21:53, Andrew Heath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm Andrew Heath, I'd like to introduce myself as I get started > contributing to the Fedora Project. > > I've spent a little over a decade working in enterprise Linux, and I'm > currently a Senior Platform Engineer and Team Lead at Red Hat IT, where > I've been since 2019. My team owns the architecture, security, and > availability of core internal and external DNS (Infoblox), bastion > hosts, and Squid proxies across the enterprise. Day to day I spend most > of my time on infrastructure as code and automation at scale — Ansible > Automation Platform, GitLab CI/CD, and an automated golden image > pipeline built on Image Builder that standardizes OS image generation > for our cloud and on-premise VM fleet. A lot of that work is about > making sure every system is built and maintained to a known, compliant > baseline, so OpenSCAP, SELinux, and Satellite/Foreman are familiar > territory. > > Before Red Hat I was a System Program Analyst at East Carolina > University, where I co-architected the university's Ansible environment, > stood up a central Red Hat Satellite server, and helped scale their > private OpenStack cloud supporting Banner, Blackboard, and the main > university web infrastructure. Earlier than that I ran the network and > Linux infrastructure for a manufacturing plant, including a migration > of the corporate web environment from Windows IIS to Apache on RHEL. I > hold a B.S. in Information Technology from ECU. > > On the Fedora side, I'm running Fedora as my daily driver and I've been > a downstream consumer of this work for most of my career — RHEL, CentOS, > Rocky, Podman, OpenShift. I'd like to start giving back upstream > rather than only consuming. > > Where I think I can be useful: > > - Packaging and maintenance — I'm interested in becoming a package > maintainer and would appreciate a sponsor. I'm happy to start by > co-maintaining existing packages or picking up orphaned ones in the > automation/sysadmin tooling space, which is where my experience is deepest. > - Image building and composes — I work with Image Builder and osbuild > regularly in production and would like to contribute to that > ecosystem. > - QA and testing — I'm comfortable filing good bug reports and would > like to help with release validation testing. > - Ansible and infrastructure automation — the Fedora Infrastructure > team's work overlaps heavily with my day job, and I'd be glad to help > there. > > My FAS account is aheath1992. I'm still working through the > packaging guidelines and getting set up, so pointers on good first tasks > are very welcome. If anyone is looking for help in one of the areas > above, please reach out. > > Thanks, and looking forward to working with you all. > > -- > Andrew Heath > [email protected] > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new > -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
