About Me – Through out the tunnel

My name is Jaykishan Mutkawoa, though everyone knows me by Nitin. This blog is simply about my passion for Linux and Open source software though sometimes, I feel to blog about Space explorations or any interesting stuff that I came across. I have been participating in Open source and Linux meetups since years back. I am currently working as a DevOps Engineer at Orange Cloud for Business – Orange Business Services. I live in Mauritius, a little island in the Indian Ocean. I am also a member of cyberstorm.mu.

I believed in collaborative work such as the IETF hackathons which I have been participating since 2015. I represented Mauritians at the IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force 102 Montreal Canada hackathon remotely from Mauritius. I was also invited by the ISOC – Internet Society to be a facilitator at the AIS – African Internet Summit 2018 Hackathon which took place in Dakar, Senegal. I was one of the facilitators for the NTP – Network Time Protocol hackathon.

Besides, I am extremely curious about Space explorations and exo-planetary research such as the Kepler projects. When it comes to the multiverse theory, I can’t stop thinking about it. Science, Psychology or even Neuroscience are the topics that I like to adventure around. I’m not good at Art and Painting, but will surely try that in the future.

My Track

2005 – I joined the Mauritius Police force and resigned in 2013. I should admit those days Linux was mostly for funs.

2008 – I have joined BCS, the chartered institute for IT. My project was made on a Criminal Database Tracking System. You can view the Project Abstract here.

2012 – I have been participating in several Linux activities since 2012. Some links are available here on the Linux User Group of Mauritius – LUGM website.

2013 – I joined the OpenSUSE advocate program to promote OpenSUSE operating system to beginners as well as professionals. You can also view the profile on the OpenSUSE official page.

2013 – 2015 Have been participating (Article appeared in Business Mag) in the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship community meetups. Many activities were carried out together with the Linux User Group of Mauritius.

2014 – 2017 Joined Linkbynet Indian Ocean, an amazing IT Service and outsourcing company hosting thousands on servers on the cloud. I was a Linux and Application System Administrator. We need to provide a quality of service to customers, engage in many technologies and improve the automation methodologies to ensure client needs. I was exposed to several technologies in the cloud environment (Saas, Paas, Haas etc..).

2015 – 2018 Joined the Hackers Mauritius which is a revolutionary and powerful team to start getting deeper into the world of Open source and Linux core. The founder gave a brief overview on his blog. I left the hackers.mu in September 2018 as I wish to have a new identity in the open source world with new innovation and a new vision.

2017 – Became Associate member of the British Computer Society (AMBCS). I am now allowed to use the title AMBCS just after my name. On July 2017, I was certified VMware Certified Associate and on December 2017, I was certified VMware Certified Professional.

2017 – 2018 Joined Orange Business Service as Level 2 Cloud Specialist – I provided cloud services. All main tasks revolve around virtualization and networking and Linux server administration.

2018 – On September 2018, I was promoted to DevOps Engineer at Orange Business Services – I’m now automating infrastructure and the cloud environment. I’m exposed to several tools and is heavily involved in Ansible, Bash, Python and several automation tools.

Where to find me?