Ian Weller / Résumé

Summary

I am an experienced Linux systems administrator (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and CentOS) as well as a Python and PHP programmer. I am well-versed in creating basic websites using web standards and using WordPress and Django as web frameworks.

Professional experience

• Red Hat, Inc.
  Community Architecture
  Intern and Doer of Stuff
  June–July 2009; June 2010–present
  • Currently working on datanommer, a program written in Python to gather information, mainly about communities of culture, and produce statistical reports automatically.
  • Created a registration system for the POSSE program with Django.
  • Currently sysadmin for two servers running Fedora and providing infrastructure for our team’s work.
• Fedora Project
  Contributor
  February 2008—present
  • Resident expert on the project’s wiki, powered by Mediawiki.
  • Created a program for automatically creating business cards for Fedora contributors.
  • Currently managing the guidelines for Fedora trademarks and the information request queue.

Personal projects

• mw, a tool to help command-line lovers use MediaWiki more easily.
• simplemediawiki.py, a Python library to help programmers use the MediaWiki API without tearing their eyes out

Education

• Currently at the University of Kansas, seeking a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (expected graduation spring 2014)