Louis A
Senior Identity Management Consultant at Catch Talent
Glendale, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolLouis A is a Senior Identity Management Consultant and Red Hat Certified Engineer with 11 years of experience architecting secure, automated Linux/UNIX infrastructures in mixed environments. He specializes in FreeIPA/Red Hat IdM and AD integrations, Ansible-driven automation and orchestration, and security hardening/auditing for PCI/STIG-compliant environments. Louis has led release engineering and identity management for the Rocky Linux community while delivering enterprise migrations, patch management (Satellite/Katello/Foreman), and virtualization consolidation for commercial clients. He pairs deep hands-on skills—contributing key fixes to the rocky-tools CentOS→Rocky migration script—with a knack for clear, comprehensive infrastructure documentation and lifecycle automation. Based in Glendale, AZ, he brings a practical blend of open-source stewardship and enterprise consulting that consistently simplifies identity and security at scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, A, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, A at Estrella Mountain Community College
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Github contributions (5)
rocky-linux/rocky-tools
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Administrator
DevOps Engineer & System AdministratorContributions:31 commits, 20 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Louis focused on modifying and improving the `centos2rocky.sh` script, the core tool for converting CentOS systems to Rocky Linux. Their contributions include updating package swapping, fixing release IDs, adding GPG keys, and refactoring the script to download and install RPMs instead of directly referencing URLs. They also addressed issues with mirror information and locale settings, along with adjustments to the mirroring process.
rocky-linux/checksums
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Contains checksums of images, ISO's, and so on for Rocky Linux
Contributions:30 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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