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| Adam Piasecki | |
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| Personal information | |
| Location: | Rosslare, Ireland |
| Homepage: | https://adamcoding.com |
| E-mail: | c4rt0gr4ph3r@gmail.com |
| Contact information | |
| IRC: | c4rt0 on irc.libera.chat |
| Fediverse: | @apiaseck:matrix.org
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| Fedora-specific information | |
| FAS name: | c4rt0 |
| Fedora e-mail: | c4rt0@fedoraproject.org |
| Fedora homepage: | c4rt0.fedorapeople.org |
52°15'N · 6°22'W · ROSSLARE HARBOUR, IRELAND
Adam Piasecki
● c4rt0 · Software Engineer · Fedora Contributor · Open Source enthusiast
WP-01 · ABOUT
About Me
Polish software engineer living in Rosslare, Ireland. Online, I go by c4rt0 — short for "cartographer" — which is less mysterious once you learn I used to work as a land surveyor and geophysicist before switching careers and trading GPS equipment for terminal windows.
Eventually, I went back to college, earned a Higher Diploma in Computer Science from Waterford IT, landed a Red Hat internship in 2022, and deliberately built a career in the Linux ecosystem — turns out that's exactly where I wanted to be.
Today I'm an Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Fedora CoreOS and RHEL CoreOS — the operating systems quietly booting Kubernetes clusters while everyone else argues about YAML. Most days involve ci-operator, Prow, COSA, kola, and trying to explain to people that "immutable" is actually a feature. I've contributed across the CoreOS and OpenShift ecosystems — including coreos-assembler, coreos-installer, fedora-coreos-docs, fedora-coreos-pipeline, rhel-coreos-config, openshift/os, openshift/installer, and more — and co-presented an 80-minute workshop on CoreOS with Ignition/Butane at DevConf.CZ 2024.
Outside work, I run a Proxmox homelab packed with self-hosted services, questionable automation ideas, and enough containers to concern the electricity meter. I build things for fun too — including adamcoding.com, a DSA tracker, and tools that help land surveyors automate the boring parts. Turns out you can leave surveying, but surveying doesn't entirely leave you. I also document some of it on my YouTube channel — Fedora, CoreOS, homelab builds, RHCSA prep, and the occasional short of a 3-year-old running terminal commands.
Away from screens entirely: I build things out of timber, fix whatever’s broken around the house (cables, electronics, hoovers, fuses — if it’s busted, I’ll have a go), drill holes, and generally keep things running. I grow plants, tend the garden, enjoy cooking spicy food and BBQ, and try to get out into nature whenever possible — camping trips, long walks, plus enough gym and sauna sessions to justify the excessive amounts of BBQ. Most importantly, I spend as much time as I can with my family. Some things don’t need a terminal.
STACK Go · Python · CoreOS · OpenShift · Podman INTO Homelab · Self-hosting · Open Source · Home Automation
WP-02 · FEDORA
Activities within Fedora
- CoreOS / OpenShift node image builds and RHEL variant integration
- CI/CD pipeline work via ci-operator and Prow (openshift/release, fedora-coreos-pipeline)
- Contributions to coreos-assembler, coreos-installer, fedora-coreos-docs, fedora-coreos-pipeline, rhel-coreos-config, fedora-coreos-streams, openshift/os, openshift/installer
- CoreOS Test Days participation and community tooling (fcos-meeting-action, repo-templates)
WP-03 · EVENTS
Events
- Flock to Fedora 2023
WP-04 · TALKS
Talks & Workshops
- DevConf.CZ 2024 — Co-presented an 80-minute workshop: Deploying Applications with Fedora CoreOS using Ignition and Butane
WP-05 · PLANS
Future Plans
- Become a Fedora package maintainer — starting with python-junit_xml, a dependency relevant to CoreOS test reporting
- Achieve RHCSA and CKA certifications
- Deepen involvement across Fedora and OpenShift infrastructure
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