Hi! I’m Kylie, a 23 year old philosophy student from North Carolina.
Please email me at kylie@somas.is to request further details. I can provide more details.
Work
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Student IT Technician at Appalachian State University Technology Support Services (2018-present)
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Virus removal, data backup, hardware diagnostics, ticket management via Jira.
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Customer service, explaining repair steps taken to customers upon them picking up their computers.
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Known as the only person in the office who knows what they’re doing with Linux, usually machines running Linux that are having problems get referred to me.
:-)
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Education
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Appalachian State University (2018-present)
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Pursuing a Bachelor of Philosophy, majoring in Philosophy, minoring in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies.
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Planning to pursue a Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy afterwards.
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Extracurricular activities
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Co-president of the Appalachian State Philosophical Society (2021-present)
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Vice president of the Appalachian State Philosophical Society (2021)
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Member of the Appalachian State Philosophical Society (2019-present)
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Member of Linux@App, at Appalachian State University (2018-2019)
Skills & Interests
- Software
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Alpine Linux, Exherbo Linux, Arch Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, Windows, POSIX Shell/bash, musl libc, s6, execline, name a Unix tool, I’ve probably used it.
- Infrastructure experience
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Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Gerrit, Gitolite
- Interests
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Minimalist system design, system administration, small systems.
Italicized: projects I have contributed to in some way. Embolded: things I’m currently using.
Open-source activity
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Core developer, Exherbo Linux (2014-2017)
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Coordinated efforts with approximately 20 other developers via IRC.
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Added support for new platforms such as musl libc, and ARMv7.
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Wrote bootstrapping documentation for new processor architectures.
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Wrote documentation for complex code previously written by others.
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Side projects
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Mutiny, a Linux distribution/research project aiming for unique, coherent, and fun computing. (2016-hiatus)
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musl libc wiki, a community-maintained wiki documenting the musl libc project. I maintain the build system for it and the stylesheets. (2016-present; my role is minimal as of 2020)
Hobbies
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Music making, using FL Studio. (2012-present, probably until I die)
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Somewhat active contributor to OpenStreetMap.
It’s helped me to find the world around me and the community I live in a lot more interesting.
Anywhere new I go ends up on the map sooner or later. -
Learning, speaking, and writing Toki Pona, a constructed language known for its minimalism. o toki pona tawa mi.