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Hey there! My name is Achilleas Pipinellis and you reached the about me page :)

Here you will find some info about the projects I contribute to, as well as some personal things, like what my hobbies are.

You can contact me via email or reach to me through the social media. See at the bottom of this page for contact details.

Find some more info about me in my CV.

Contributions to open source

GitLab

GitLab is an open source Git repository application, built on Ruby on Rails. I have been using it since version 2.0 and started contributing in version 4.0. On April 2014 I became a member of the community core-team as GitLab recipes lead. As of December 2015 I've been hired to work full-time as a Technical Writer, that's why you'll see me helping mainly with things involving documentation. If you want to ping me on GitLab.com, use @axil and I'll respond as soon as possible.

Fedora

In early 2013 I started getting involved with Fedora, mainly because of the GSoC 2013 program. It has a vast community with many developers, sysadmins and users and a lot of areas you can contribute to. At that time, I maintained some packages, mostly rubygems.

I had the pleasure to participate in the Google Summer of Code program in 2013 and 2014 with the Fedora project.

See more info in my Fedora wiki page.

Arch Linux

I've been using Arch Linux as my main distribution since 2009. I maintain several packages at the AUR and I try to contribute to the Archwiki whenever I can. Take also a look at the archlinuxgr repository which has popular packages that aren't in the official repos. I have also contributed to the localization of pacman and the AUR interface. Check my transifex profile at Contact Details.

Technical writing

I have always liked writing about technical stuff and my involvement with system administration has helped a lot.

You can find tutorials I write for DigitalOcean by visiting my profile.

Book author

Yes, as of September 2015 I'm also a book author :)

For the time being my only published book is from Packtpub and is about GitHub (that was before I joined GitLab 😛):

GitHub Essentials - Unleash the power of collaborative workflow development using GitHub, one step at a time

You can read a sample chapter on slideshare and read another chapter in an article post by Packtpub.

Workstation

I am a proud owner of a Thinkpad x260 running Arch Linux.

                  ##                    OS: Arch Linux x86_64
                 ####                   Hostname: thedude
                ######                  Uptime: 2 days, 23:43
               ########                 Kernel: 4.18.5-arch1-1-ARCH
              ##########                Shell: /usr/bin/zsh
             ############               Packages: 2298
            ##############              DE: KDE
           ################             GTK2 theme: Breeze
          ##################            GTK2 icon theme: Numix
         ####################           GTK2 font name: ABeeZee Regular 10
        ######################          RAM: 7611M / 15911M (47%)
       #########      #########         CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz
      ##########      ##########        Boot: 92M / 511M (18%) (vfat)
     ###########      ###########       Root: 426G / 469G (96%) (ext4)
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Output using the alsi package.

Hobbies/Interests

Aikido

My greatest love is Aikido, a japanese martial art. I first started in January 2010 and have attended a bunch of seminars since. There is a site of our dojo and some social pages (facebook, twitter, youtube). You can check some photos in the facebook page. My limited skills on graphical design led me to do the artwork of our dojo as well. Source files can be found on github.

Photography

I have an old Olympus DSLR and whenever I have the chance I get pictures. My main interest is my pets, but I also take landscapes as well. Some day I hope to buy a more advanced camera which supports custom firmware in order to hack it :p

Favorites

Movies

I like watching movies and TV series. I always enjoy the Asian cinema and the Japanese Anime movies and series. Did I mention that I also like manga?

With no particular order (well, except from the first one), some of my favorite movies are:

  • The Big Lebowski
  • Sin City
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Drive
  • Nine Queens
  • Paprika
  • Weekend at Bernie's
  • Black Dynamite
  • 13 Assassins
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Spirited Away

Music

I used to play keyboard1 in a band, but unfortunately I haven't practiced for a looong time. I also own an electric guitar.

Other than playing, I like listening to music. When working or studying, most of the times I listen to jazz because I find it non distracting. Other music genres that I like are funk, blues, classical, and progressive rock/metal. Often you'll also find me listening to 8bit, dubstep, and electronic :)

If I had to pick one band that I miss not seeing live, that would be Rush.

Contact details

  1. Proud owner of a Roland Juno-D. ↩