Free Software Developer, Systems Engineer, and Open-Source Advocate. Focused on building self-hosted, resilient, and privacy-first digital infrastructure as a continuous learning pursuit.
I am an unconventional computer nerd driven by hardware ownership, reviving legacy systems, and diving deep into both software and bare metal. Whether it's contributing to upstream ecosystems, experimenting with Raspberry Pis, or working in Emacs, I am deeply invested in technology that simplifies my life and fuels my continuous learning journey.
- Fedora Project: Part of the Community Operations Team and Infrastructure Team. Currently focusing on Fedora Forge.
- Forgejo: Part of the Forgejo team. Actively fixing bugs, building features, and contributing to Forgejo.
This GitHub profile serves primarily as a mirror and landing page. My daily engineering, active code reviews, and project updates happen across independent and community-driven platforms:
- Community Forges:
- Codeberg - (Primary public instance for FOSS work)
- Fedora Forge - Active Fedora work (migrated from Pagure, which is decommissioned).
- Self-Hosted Hub: Personal Forgejo Instance - Where core development, private staging, and workloads live.
- Static Mirrors & Legacy Hubs:
Note: I am not very active on GitHub. To see my latest work, active code contributions, and current projects, please check out my other forges listed in the section above.
Direct, secure, and federated communication is preferred, but you can find me across various platforms here:
- Matrix: @thisisyaash:fedora.im
- Mastodon: @[email protected]
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: Yashwanth Rathakrishnan
Host: Linux (Fedora / AArch64 / Raspberry Pi)
Focus: Systems Automation, Self-Hosting, Devops/CI-CD, Packaging (RPM/DEB)
Core: Git, Forgejo Runners, Ansible, Containers, Cloudflare, Golang