About

Contact info

• edunham on GitHub.
• @QEDunham on twitter.
• qedunham on LinkedIn, though I ignore connection requests from strangers
• if I know you, feel free to message me for Signal or Discord contact info

Bio

I’m a FOSS enthusiast who dropped out of the Computer Science program at Oregon State University to take an amazing job as a DevOps Engineer for Mozilla Research in 2015. After 3 years with Research and 2 on the CloudOps team, I left Mozilla in May 2020 to pursue a Senior SRE role at PagerDuty.

FIRST got me into robotics and programming back in 2006, and I’ve been an amateur electrical and mechanical engineer ever since. The LUG and Open Source Lab started my career in open source software development and Linux systems administration in 2010, and those topics have since become my career.

I attended Oregon State University from September 2010 to June 2015. In 2011 I spent my summer as a software developer on the Ganeti Web Manager project at the OSU Open Source Lab; in 2012 I spent the summer doing Android software development at Intel; in the summer of 2013 I was a sysadmin at the OSL, and in 2014 I interned on the ops team at Urban Airship.

As well as spending a couple terms as a teaching assistant and peer mentor for the school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2013 and 2013, I founded the OSL’s Devops BootCamp sysadmin training program during the 2013-2014 school year and mentored its new student leaders in 2014-2015.

I’m an omnivore with no known food allergies. Pronouns are usually easy to avoid, but when they’re necessary, I use whichever seem most convenient and least distracting for the given context.

Publications

Assorted articles on opensource.com (opensource.com author page)

Oregon State University Linux Users Group blog

• Channel administration on Freenode
• Advice for running a university Linux Users Group
• Technical Resume Advice
• Event publicity at Oregon State University cheat sheet
• How to run an Installfest
• How to write a guide

Citations

• Rust’s Community Automation talk/blog references show up in LWN and GitHub’s Open Source Guide

Impostors

There are some people on the internet who use names or usernames similar to mine, but are not me:

• Whoever got their account edunham suspended on Twitter. I am qedunham on Twitter.
• Whoever holds edunham@gmail.com. I have never used that gmail address and yet people send cc stuff meant for me to it. Please don’t.
• Ethan Dunham on LinkedIn is not me. I am qedunham on LinkedIn
• Emily Dunham on Devpost is not me. I do not have a Devpost account.
• Elsie Dunham on Instagram is not me. I do not have an active Instagram account.

Please do not contact any of these people when attempting to contact me.

Recent Posts

• Collaboration
• Assorted Git & Unix Tips
• DIY Shoe Chains
• Making Dice
• Retroreflectors & Storing Ground Glass
• DIY Thimble
• Lumenator
• Playing Dress-Up With Starlink
• tree-style tab setup
• top/htop in windows is ctrl+shift+esc

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