Re: Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Paul Maconi

2024-04-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 08:46:17PM GMT, Paul Maconi wrote:
> Hello everyone! My name is Paul Maconi, aka @aggraxis on matrix, across
> the FAS, and a bunch of other places. I attended the meeting earlier 
> today. Thank you again for the warm welcome.

Welcome again. Nice seeing you around...

...snip...
 
> Honestly, I'm just a computer nerd who grew up to be a computer nerd. 
> I love learning things and solving problems. I will say that I was a 
> little intimidated at first by the outstanding issues. Even some of 
> the Eaxyfix items looked kind of wild from the newcomer point of view. 
> Still, I'm excited for the opportunity to come learn, grow, and create 
> with you all. 

Yeah, we struggle with easyfix items (or at least I do). 
If something is super easy and anyone can do it, it's hard to just let
it wait for someone, it's easier to just do it... :)

But do chime in if you see something go by you would like to help out
with. 

Our ansible repo is available for PRs...there is a ton of cruft over the
years there, and once we finally decide to roll out to AWX, we are going
to be needing to do a lot of ansible re-writing/cleanup. :)

kevin


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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Paul Maconi

2024-04-25 Thread Paul Maconi
Hello everyone! My name is Paul Maconi, aka @aggraxis on matrix, across
the FAS, and a bunch of other places. I attended the meeting earlier 
today. Thank you again for the warm welcome.

I'm currently employed by a defense contractor providing support in the
US. I lead the contractor team supporting the customer organization, 
and I serve as one of the senior architects for their test enclaves. 

We work with RHEL (7, 8, and 9) as well as Windows and a little bit of 
Ubuntu. I have experience working with NetApp storage arrays and VMware
virtualization products in the workplace. At home I have a small lab 
where I just converted everything over to Proxmox as an educational/
fun exercise. 

I'm not a strong programmer. I took C, C++, and Java in college some 
20+ years ago, but I couldn't see myself making that kind of 
professional life for myself at the time. I did find an interest in 
Python after I started experimenting with Ansible in the workplace. I 
*love* writing Ansible playbooks, and running through a bunch of the 
self-paced materials over at pybit.es was a lot of fun for me. So I 
know enough Python to be dangerous, but I can't write you the next gee 
whiz application from scratch. I have a working knowledge of Powershell
as well, but I'm hoping we won't need that here.

I currently hold a CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) 
certification, mostly because my job requires it. I spend a lot of time
assessing and remediating security controls as part of my work life, 
which is the initial driver for learning Ansible at the time. 

I also spent 7 years working as a Cisco Certified Network Administrator
(CCNA) back in the early 2000s, so I do have a background slinging 
packets.

Honestly, I'm just a computer nerd who grew up to be a computer nerd. 
I love learning things and solving problems. I will say that I was a 
little intimidated at first by the outstanding issues. Even some of 
the Eaxyfix items looked kind of wild from the newcomer point of view. 
Still, I'm excited for the opportunity to come learn, grow, and create 
with you all. 
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