Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail

Current

• System Integrator at Inigo Consulting
• Volunteer at Hack In The Box
• Contributor at Fedora Project

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Education

• Universiti Teknologi Petronas

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog
• GPG Key

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail’s Summary

An undergraduate student with experience with Linux and Unix based OS administration. An Open Source advocate and a contributor to Fedora Project as ambassador and packager.

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail’s Specialties:

Redhat/Fedora Linux, Zope, Plone, Python, Open Source

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail’s Experience

• System Integrator

  Inigo Consulting

  (Computer Software industry)

  December 2007 — Present (11 months)

  A System Integrator of deployment of Plone on Linux and FreeBSD platform.
  
  Responsible in deploying and configuring Zope/Plone high availability cluster and maintaining them. Also develops customization on top of Plone platform and design Open Source powered infrastructures for effective online collaboration.
  
  Past projects includes the United Nations Asia Pacific Centre of Information Communication Technologies E-Collaboration Hub ( http://www.unapcict.org )

• Volunteer

  Hack In The Box

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  A volunteer for HiTB KL Conference 2007

• Contributor

  Fedora Project

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  I am one of the Fedora Ambassadors for the Malaysia region. Me and my colleagues voluntarily work to promote Free/Open Source Softwares and Fedora Linux distribution to a wider audience and also reach potential contributors from this region.
  
  I am also a package maintainer for several packages in the Fedora distribution.

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail’s Education

• Universiti Teknologi Petronas

  Bachelor, Information Communication Technology, 2005 — 2009 (expected)

  An active advocate of Open Source. Maintained several infrastructures to encourage community building in for OSS users in the university. Also the lead administrator of the student-maintained Internet Relay Chat network.
  
  Represented the university for several ICT competitions, notably UiTM iHack.

  Activities and Societies:

  UTP Open Source Association, UTPchat IRC Network Operators,

Additional Information

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail’s Websites:

• My Blog
• GPG Key

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail’s Interests:

Linux, Open Source, Technology, Computer Networking, System Administration, Computer Security, Ninjutsu, Python, Zope, Plone, Fedora, CentOS

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail’s Groups:

FOSSfm, Bujinkan Hachimon Dojo Malaysia,

•    Plone
•    Linux Expert
•    Fedora
•    FOSS Professionals

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail’s Honors:

1st Place UiTM iHack Forensics Challenge, 2007
2nd Place UiTM iHack CTF Challenge, 2006 & 2007

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail’s Contact Settings

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