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Rick Elrod

Personal information
Location:	Ohio, USA
Birthday:	August 2
Homepage:	elrod.me
E-mail:	codeblock@fedoraproject.org
GPG key:	FC3C6A07
Contact information
Ham Radio:	N8SQL
Facebook:	codeblock
GitHub:	relrod
Fedora-specific information
FAS name:	codeblock
Fedora e-mail:	codeblock@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage:	codeblock.fedorapeople.org
Fedora Badges earned (140)

NOTE!

By FAR, the best way to reach me is by pinging me on IRC or dropping me a PM (relrod on freenode). Please try to contact me there before resorting to other methods.

Introduction

I live in Youngstown, OH, USA, and am a recent graduate of Youngstown State University where I majored in computer science and mathematics, and minored in linguistics. I have a very strong interest in Programming Language Theory (PLT) and the connection between mathematics and programming by way of things like category theory, type theory, and the Curry-Howard correspondence. To that end, I have a very strong opinions on the state of the software industry and the need for formal verification in our industry as software continues to grow more fragile and complex.

I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer as of June 2019.

What I do within Fedora (current-ish)

I am on the Community Platform Engineering team at Red Hat. Day-to-day, I spend most of my time on the infrastructure team, ensuring that the Project's servers are up and running, safe and secure, and up to date. However, I also spend time working on Fedora's websites portfolio, including co-leading the rework of getfedora.org that took place in mid 2019. I hold a seat on the Fedora Mindshare committee where I represent the Websites and Design teams. I maintain a fair number of packages, mostly random things that I find useful.

Timeline of my Fedora history

(June 2010) - Sent intro email to infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org, started helping out wherever I could.
(January 2011) - Got funded to go to FUDCon:Tempe_2011. (Thank you, Fedora!)
(February 2011) - Was asked about and gladly accepted entrance into sysadmin-main, the core sysadmin group for the Fedora Project.
(June 2011) - Won the Fedora Scholarship. (Thank you, Fedora!)
(November 2011) - Started administrating the Fedora Scholarship since the previous winner has the opportunity to run the next year's scholarship.
(February 2012) - Became an intern at Red Hat (Fedora Engineering Intern).
May 2017 - Transitioned to full-time member of the Community Platform Engineering team as "Associate Software Engineer"
June 2019 - Promotion to "Software Engineer"
June 2019 - Obtained RHCE certification.

What I do outside of Fedora (in FOSS)

I work on a lot of small FOSS projects that I started (see my GitHub page linked above).
I love learning about programming paradigms, particularly Functional Programming.
- Along with that, I love learning the math behind it. Type theory and category theory are enjoyable. Provable correctness is amazing. :)
- In fact Programming Language Theory in general is amazing. :)
I maintain a small number of Ruby Gems, but this is about all I do with Ruby nowadays.
I maintain some Haskell packages on Hackage.
I created http://da.gd/ and am currently rewriting it in Haskell.

Non-software things that I do

I am a founder of the Northeast Ohio Experimenters Club, a small ham radio club among friends, in Ohio, USA.
I was a founder of The SYN/HAK Hackerspace in Akron, Ohio, USA.
I enjoy photography - I shoot Pentax.
I enjoy astronomy and should learn more about it one day.
I'm an extra class amateur radio operator (N8SQL) and ARRL and Laurel VE.
I play drums (but only as a hobby).
I play guitar (also only as a hobby).
I play piano (you get the idea at this point).
I swing dance.

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-= Ricky Elrod on the 'net =
+=NOTE!=
-'''FAS''': [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/view/codeblock codeblock]<br />
+'''By FAR, the best way to reach me is by pinging me on IRC or dropping me a PM (relrod on freenode). Please try to contact me there before resorting to other methods.'''
-'''GPG''': [http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x002710B0DAD3DF0E DAD3DF0E]<br />
-'''Freenode''' (nick: CodeBlock or relrod): #fedora-admin, #fedora-noc, #fedora-apps, #fedora-fedmsg, and a bunch of others.<br />
+= Introduction =
-'''Internal/Red Hat''' (nick: relrod)<br />
+I live in Youngstown, OH, USA, and am a recent graduate of Youngstown State University where I majored in computer science and mathematics, and minored in linguistics. I have a very strong interest in Programming Language Theory (PLT) and the connection between mathematics and programming by way of things like category theory, type theory, and the Curry-Howard correspondence. To that end, I have a very strong opinions on the state of the software industry and the need for formal verification in our industry as software continues to grow more fragile and complex.
-'''Slashnet''' (nick: CodeBlock): #uakroncs<br />
-'''Ham Radio''': [http://callook.info/n8sql N8SQL]<br />
+I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer as of June 2019.
-'''Email''': [mailto:codeblock@fedoraproject.org codeblock@fedoraproject.org]<br />
-'''Blog''': [http://blog.elrod.me/ http://blog.elrod.me/]<br />
+= What I do within Fedora (current-ish) =
-'''Github''': [https://www.github.com/codeblock https://www.github.com/codeblock]<br />
-'''Facebook''': [https://www.facebook.com/codeblock https://www.facebook.com/codeblock]<br />
+I am on the [[Community Platform Engineering]] team at Red Hat. Day-to-day, I spend most of my time on the infrastructure team, ensuring that the Project's servers are up and running, safe and secure, and up to date. However, I also spend time working on Fedora's websites portfolio, including co-leading the rework of getfedora.org that took place in mid 2019. I hold a seat on the Fedora Mindshare committee where I represent the Websites and Design teams. I maintain a fair number of packages, mostly random things that I find useful.
-'''Google+''' (rarely used): [https://plus.google.com/106726601246881076299/ https://plus.google.com/106726601246881076299/]<br />
-= What I do within Fedora =
+= Timeline of my Fedora history =
 * (June 2010) - Sent intro email to infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org, started helping out wherever I could.
 * (January 2011) - Got funded to go to [[FUDCon:Tempe_2011]]. (Thank you, Fedora!)
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 * (June 2011) - Won the [[Scholarship | Fedora Scholarship]]. (Thank you, Fedora!)
 * (November 2011) - Started administrating the [[Scholarship | Fedora Scholarship]] since the previous winner has the opportunity to run the next year's scholarship.
-* (February 2012) - Became an intern at Red Hat  (Fedora Engineering Intern).
+* (February 2012) - Became an intern at Red Hat (Fedora Engineering Intern).
+* May 2017 - Transitioned to full-time member of the Community Platform Engineering team as "Associate Software Engineer"
+* June 2019 - Promotion to "Software Engineer"
+* June 2019 - Obtained RHCE certification.
 = What I do outside of Fedora (in FOSS) =
-* I do a lot of web development, usually in Rails or Play Framework + Scala.
+* I work on a lot of small FOSS projects that I started (see my GitHub page linked above).
-* I maintain a small number of [https://rubygems.org/profiles/6607 Ruby Gems].
+* I love learning about programming paradigms, particularly Functional Programming.
-* I created (and very badly need to re-create in another language some day) [http://da.gd/ http://da.gd/] and the [https://github.com/CodeBlock/dagd "framework"] that powers it.
+** Along with that, I love learning the math behind it. Type theory and category theory are enjoyable. Provable correctness is amazing. :)
-* I sometimes contribute to [https://github.com/facebook/phabricator Facebook's Phabricator project] in my spare time.
+** In fact Programming Language Theory in general is amazing. :)
-* I am trying to make the FOSS bridge between Software and Amateur Radio more obtainable to more people.
+* I maintain a small number of [https://rubygems.org/profiles/6607 Ruby Gems], but this is about all I do with Ruby nowadays.
-* I love learning and playing with a lot of different programming languages.
+* I maintain some Haskell packages on [http://hackage.haskell.org/user/RickyElrod Hackage].
-** Here is a small list of ones that I know: Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, [http://iolanguage.com Io], Java, Scala
+* I created [http://da.gd/ http://da.gd/] and am currently rewriting it in Haskell.
-** Here is a small list of ones that I want to try out/play with one day: [http://magpie-lang.org Magpie], [http://clojure.org/ Clojure] (and other lisps), [http://elixir-lang.org Elixir] (whose package I maintain in Fedora).
 = Non-software things that I do =
-* I am a part-time student, currently at Stark State College.
+* I am a founder of the [https://noexc.org/ Northeast Ohio Experimenters Club], a small ham radio club among friends, in Ohio, USA.
-** I am the former Vice President for [http://www.w8upd.org/ W8UPD], The University of Akron's Amateur Radio Club.
+* I was a founder of [http://synhak.org The SYN/HAK Hackerspace] in Akron, Ohio, USA.
-** I am the former Vice President for [http://acm.cs.uakron.edu ACM at UAkron].
-* I am a founding member of [http://synhak.org The SYN/HAK Hackerspace] in Akron, Ohio.
-* I am learning Guitar in my free time.
-* I am learning calligraphy in my free time.
-* I play the keyboard for fun. I'm not good at it.
-* I love animals.
 * I enjoy photography - I shoot Pentax.
+* I enjoy astronomy and should learn more about it one day.
+* I'm an extra class amateur radio operator (N8SQL) and ARRL and Laurel VE.
+* I play drums (but only as a hobby).
+* I play guitar (also only as a hobby).
+* I play piano (you get the idea at this point).
+* I swing dance.
-= Things that I find interesting and one-day would like to try, but currently know nothing about =
+[[Category:Ambassadors from the USA]]
-* Airplane piloting.
-* Astronomy.
-* Upgrading my Ham Radio license to 'Extra'.

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