User:Dcantrell

About

I work for Red Hat in platform engineering. As of 14-Nov-2023, I have been at Red Hat for 18 years. I have worked on a number of projects at Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, I worked for Internet Security Systems (acquired by IBM after I left to go work for Red Hat), assorted Solaris shops, some phone companies, and I was a core team member of Slackware Linux employed by Walnut Creek CDROM (later BSDi). I have been involved in the Linux and open source communities for the entirety of my career.

Current projects:

• Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) member
• Fedora Council member
• rpm-software-management (things related or adjacent to rpm and dnf)
• rpminspect
• pyparted
• Mentoring new Fedora project members
• SPDX license expression usage in Fedora and upstream project participation
• Fedora CI and developer tools
• Maintaining old software in Fedora and EPEL that everyone has long since stopped caring about
• Various non-work things at https://github.com/dcantrell (ok, probably some work stuff there too)

Past projects:

• Anaconda from Fedora Core 4 through post-RHEL-7 (forget which Fedora release)
• Multiple networking subsystems in Anaconda
• s390x installer work
• DHCPv6 through wide-dhcpv6 and later contributing to ISC DHCP so Fedora (and RHEL) could use it directly
• Various packaging and imaging tools
• Upstream maintainer of GNU Parted
• pykickstart
• pyparted overhaul
• DevConf.US volunteer wrangling

Misc

I live in Medford, Massachusetts and work from Red Hat's Boston office.

Contact

• Work Email: dcantrell AT redhat DOT com
• Non-work Email: dcantrell AT burdell DOT org
• IRC: dcantrell on Libera
• GPG key: 0x62977BB9C841B965/08F7 C8B3 C621 950C 138F 7661 6297 7BB9 C841 B965
• Fedora Account: dcantrell
• Personal Site: https://www.burdell.org/
• IMDb Profile: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10345412/