I've lurked around here for years and occasionally have chimed in but have never introduced myself. What can I say, I'm left-handed and generally backwards to most of society. :-) Better late than never, right?

My first exposure to any computer was a VIC-20 in 1981 and was the ultimate gizmo for this (then) 13 year old. My first exposure to any *nix was AIX, heavily, in the early 90s, followed by Slackware, lightly. I really didn't do much Linux though until acquiring RHL 4.0, but then I was hooked. I remained an RHL user exclusively and followed through to Fedora for until around FC3 then dabbled a bit with Ubuntu but came back to Fedora circa FC7.

Since that time I've been doing rpm packaging internally for my employer, though following the Fedora Packaging Guidelines to a large extent as that generally helped ensure success. A few years ago I decided that my custom rpm build tools were limiting so I took the jump into standing up our own Koji environment, along with Sigul, along with more of my own tooling to fully automate the signing, mashing, etc.

All this helps me support my primary job developing our (er, my baby actually) AOS (Appliance OS) and most of the applications that run atop to fulfill various roles, which is now running on nearly 500 deployments, mostly embedded. The AOS is founded on what is effectively a custom Fedora live image that leverages a fork of the fedora-readonly.service along with a lot of clever leveraging of things that Fedora already offered. I dug deep, grokked, and tweaked, adding glue and infrastructure as needed.

My interests are wide, but mostly are focused on system tools (I enjoy being my own best customer :-) and automation. I'm heavily biased towards Python, but also necessarily extremely well versed in shell scripting. I also do lots of Puppet (a love/hate relationship), some Ruby and more. I don't have any particular package I want to bring to Fedora at this time so I'll stick with package reviews for the time being. Maybe someday I'll try to pry loose one of my many personal and/or work packages. I've already slowly started trickling out my Puppet modules (at https://github.com/jflorian). When I'm away from a computer, I'm often busy with home alterations and renovation, wood working, metal working, or feeding my insatiable appetite for books, music, nature, and learning.