Linux practitioner building toward a cloud engineering role, with a security-first mindset and a longer term direction in cloud security and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux track.
Background in electrical installation and manufacturing. Now working through CompTIA certifications and RHCSA while building a cloud-focused homelab and documenting everything in public.
| Status | Certification |
|---|---|
| ✅ Complete | CompTIA ITF+ |
| ✅ Complete | CompTIA A+ |
| 🔄 In Progress | CompTIA Network+ (N10-009) |
| 📋 Planned | CompTIA Security+ |
| 📋 Planned | AZ-900 — Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure |
| 📋 Planned | RHCSA EX200 (RHEL 10) |
| 📋 Planned | AZ-104 — Azure Administrator |
- Daily driver: Fedora KDE
- Servers: AlmaLinux
- Containers: Podman (rootless)
- Learning: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes
- 🌐 fionnlinux.com — public learning journal
- 🔧 dotfiles — reproducible Fedora and AlmaLinux configs
- 🐍 python-projects — scripting and automation
- 🔨 bash-toolkit — bash scripts and utilities
- 🦅 between-the-rivers — wildlife records explorer querying the NBN Atlas API, built in stages from bash to cloud
- OPNsense on Protectli hardware — firewall and network foundation
- WireGuard VPN
- Self-hosted services via Podman Quadlets