Hello all,

My name is David Kirwan, I'm originally from Kilkenny, Ireland, now living in Waterford, Ireland. I've recently transferred to the CPE team at Red Hat, where I'll likely be working on CentOS and Fedora infrastructure in a devops capacity. I also hope to get involved in some of the packaging work for the Ruby/ML SIGs, although that might be in my spare time!

To share a little background about me, I spent a few years as a software researcher, working on projects in the energy sector, security and software defined networking. In my previous role at Red Hat, I worked as a devops/releng engineer on an operations team responsible for maintaining a hosted SaaS product. Most recently, I've been working as a regular software engineer on a team developing and improving Red Hat's middleware products to work on Openshift 3/4 using Kubernetes "Operators" (Custom resource controllers).

When I'm not working, I try to spend as much time as possible getting involved in the local Makerspace (South East Makerspace), working on personal art, astronomy, amateur radio, diy, electronics and woodworking projects. I'm delighted to be here, and I'm looking forward to working with everyone!

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