About Me
The “about me” blurb is always a bit interesting to try to do — on the one hand, people want to know where you’re coming from; on the other, if you read the blog, you can figure it out. I’ll try to explain some of the big aspects I tend to blog about and where I’m coming from for each of them but take everything with a grain of salt
Life
I’m Jeremy Katz and I currently live outside of Boston, MA with my wife and our two cats. I grew up in rural North Carolina and am finding that a more urban lifestyle fits me pretty well. I’m a self-professed geek and enjoy playing with a lot of technology related things and have for basically as long as I can remember. It’s fun both to figure out how things work as well as how to build exciting new things. Usually software, but from time to time the urge strikes me and I have to do silly things with hardware or just take something apart.
Work
I’m a developer at Red Hat, Inc. who does a lot of work on various things within the Fedora Project. If you’ve used a Red Hat distro, you’ve certainly used code that I’ve touched or written as I’ve been involved in a lot over time. Things within the distro which I’ve contributed a lot of code to include anaconda, mkinitrd, grub, yum, various system config tools, Xen, some of the underlying virt infrastructure, the livecds, some GNOME bits and pieces, and more. I was a founding member of the Fedora Board and FESCo although these days I only serve in an advisory role for both. I’m currently doing investigations into some new technologies and see about how they fit in / how to best integrate them within Fedora and/or Red Hat products/projects.
School
I’m currently enrolled as a grad student in the Systems Design and Management (SDM) program at MIT. It’s a combination degree given by the Engineering Systems Division and the Sloan School of Management. I’ve written a fair bit about the program as I work through it and am intending (hoping?) to graduate at the end of 2009. If you have questions about the program, feel free to let me know.
Biking
As if that wasn’t enough to keep me busy pretty much 24×7, I’m also an avid cyclist and just started bike racing in 2008. In 2009, I’ll be doing some collegiate racing as well as regular racing as a Cat4 in the greater Massachusetts area. I post a bit about what I do for training as well as rides and races as well as the occasional equipment review or drooling
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Want to know more? Read for a bit, it’ll eventually make sense. At least, I hope so. If not, contact me and we’ll go from there.