Who I Am#
Linux enthusiast building toward a career in enterprise IT, with a long-term goal of working within the Red Hat ecosystem. The path isn’t rigidly mapped yet — whether that means IT helpdesk, SOC analyst work, or junior linux administration work, the foundation is the same. Learn the fundamentals properly, understand how things actually work rather than just following steps, and build from there.
Security thinking runs through everything I do — not as a separate concern but as part of how I approach every system and decision.
Four year electrical installation apprenticeship gave me a methodical approach to systems and problem solving. Years running production lines in manufacturing taught me how real operational environments work under pressure. That grounding informs how I think about Linux, infrastructure, and reliability — systems that have to work, not just work in the lab.
What This Site Is#
A working journal. Every certificate studied, homelab built, and command line tool configured gets documented here. Written for anyone following a similar path — and for future me when I forget how I did something.
If something I document saves someone else an hour of troubleshooting, that’s reason enough to write it up.
The Journey#
| Status | Certification |
|---|---|
| ✅ Complete | CompTIA ITF+ |
| ✅ Complete | CompTIA A+ |
| 🔄 In Progress | CompTIA Network+ (N10-009) |
| 📋 Planned | CompTIA Security+ |
| 📋 Planned | RHCSA EX200 |
What I Run#
- Daily driver: Fedora KDE
- Servers: Rocky Linux
- Homelab goals: Wazuh, OPNsense, WireGuard, Podman
- Learning: Ansible, Python, and the tools that matter
- Philosophy: Self-hosted, open source, privacy first
- This site: Hugo static site generator + Blowfish theme, source on GitHub and Codeberg, deployed automatically via GitHub Actions to GitHub Pages
Find Me#
- GitHub: github.com/fionnlinux
- Codeberg: codeberg.org/fionnlinux