Víctor Kareh Fábregas

About

My name is Víctor. Here are some highlights about my life:

• 1982 - 2007 Puerto Rico: was born, attended school, university
• 2007 - 2020 Ann Arbor: career, got married, had children, bought a house
• 2020 - Quebec: moved closer to in-laws, bought a hobby farm

Work

I work at Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer. The majority of the projects I work on are related to managed services, particularly of OpenShift.

Some of the projects I work on here are:

• Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA)
• OpenShift Cluster Manager (OCM)

Most of my time is spent attending meetings, designing new features (and writing the specs), writing code (mostly in Golang), and reviewing my teammates' code (which is usually better than mine).

Free Software

I'm passionate about Linux, Free Software, Open Source. I enjoy developing and contributing to various projects, especially when they make my life better.

Some of the projects I regularly devote time to:

• MATE Desktop (I'm one of the maintainers)
• Ubuntu MATE (even though I use Fedora these days)
• Various projects under the GNOME umbrella.

I also have plenty of smaller/one-off contributions to many other projects. Check out my GitHub for more stuff.

In addition to contributing, there are other projects that I rely on every day and are dear to me:

• Vim text editor
• Mutt e-mail client
• WeeChat IRC client
• Pidgin instant messenger client
• Liferea RSS reader
• Syncthing continuous file synchronization program
• LineageOS Android-based operating system
• K-9 mobile mail client

Homesteading

My family and I live in the countryside and lead a homesteading lifestyle. We homeschool our children and actively work towards local food self-sufficiency.

• We try to grow what we eat (fruits, vegetables, eggs).
• What we don't [yet] grow, we source from neighboring farms (meat, dairy, extra fruit).
• What we can't source from neighboring farms, we buy in bulk from local sources (dried beans, wheat grain).
• What can't be produced locally, we import (coffee, chocolate).
• We eat fresh produce only when it's in season.
• We preserve food after harvest to last us through winter.

It's a rewarding lifestyle full of fun challenges.