User:Linuxawy

I'm A Software engineer at a major multinational storage and virtualization 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.

Contact

 * Name: Ahmed Soliman Farghal
 * Email: me@ahmedsoliman.com
 * IRC: AhmedSoliman #cat-hackers #cat-scmp
 * Fedora Account: linuxawy

Presentations
Presentations I've launched in Egypt regarding Linux and Open Source:
 * Windows vs. Linux - 2003.
 * The Open Source Approach - 2004, 2005.
 * Linux Installation Festival - 2005.
 * SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) - 2006.
 * Secure Shell - 2007.
 * 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
Open Source projects that I launched and maintain:
 * Antinetcut (http://code.google.com/p/antinetcut)
 * RbTrees(http://code.google.com/p/rbtrees)
 * J-Islamic (http://code.google.com/p/j-islamic/)
 * CAT-SCMP (http://scmp.cat-hackers.net)
 * cppThreads (http://code.google.com/p/cppthreads) (NEW)
 * Networkify (http://www.networkify.com)

I've also worked on enterprise deployments/training based on RedHat Linux and Fedora on the following locations:
 * The Central Bank Of Egypt
 * The American University in Egypt
 * Amer Group
 * Egyptian Ministry of Defense
 * Vodafone Egypt
 * 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