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Name: Rob Muhlestein
Location: Mooresville, North Carolina, USA
Mission:
Building community and facilitating communication, research, and
learning through the focused application of technology.
Summary: |
Professional Trainer and Mentor • Entrepreneur • CTO • Live Streamer •
Community Builder • Site Reliability and DevOps Engineer • Terminal UI
Developer • Linux Advocate • Senior Software Engineer (Go, Bash, Perl,
POSIX, Python, C) • Cloud Native Platform Developer • Presenter
• Writer • Autodidact
Contact:
Email: rob@rwx.gg
Web: rob.rwx.gg
Twitter: rwxrob
GitHub: rwxrob
YouTube: rwxrob
Twitch: rwxrob
Languages:
- American English (native)
- Russian (spoken and written)
- French (spoken and written)
Education:
- Entity: Brigham Young University
Location: Provo, Utah
Credential: Bachelor of Arts Degree, Russian
GPA: "3.6 (4.0=A)"
Started: 1989
Stopped: 1994
Details:
- Financed 80% myself working three jobs and own company
- Most core liberal arts courses were Honors
- Close to minor in Computers and Linguistics
- Close to minor in French
- Beginning Computer Science courses
- Competitive cycling club
- Russian Choir
- Entity: Cyprus High School
Location: Magna, Utah
Credential: Diploma
GPA: "3.0 (4.0=A)"
Started: 1983
Stopped: 1986
Details:
- Academic focus on Drafting, Calculus and French
- Personally and privately selected for state-wide leadership camp
- Elected to Executive Council as Activities Chairman
- Lead organization of all assemblies and school activities
- Booked state governor for Homecoming keynote
- Tried out and made into Madrigal A Capella Choir
- Tried out and made into Percussion Ensemble
- Interested in dancing, skating, cycling, tennis, soccer, running
- Top five dead lift record for school (per body weight)
- Entity: Brockbank Junior High School
Location: Magna, Utah
Started: 1983
Stopped: 1986
Details:
- Only student allowed before-school access to only computer in school
- Picked for "Gifted and Talented" program for accelerated students
- Struggled with repeated bullying, beatings, and social awkwardness
- Introduced recess group to a "new" game called "Soccer"
- Avid Dungeons and Dragons player, wrote several original campaigns
- Wrote several programs in Basic including games and DnD utilities
- Member of school choir
Employment:
- Role: Kubernetes HPC ML Infrastructure Engineer
Entity: (large multinational, name available upon request)
Started: March 2021
Location: Remote (Headquartered in USA)
Details:
- Created klogin Kubernetes OIDC login tool in Go
- Spearheaded centralized management of k8sapp applications
- Performed several upgrades of different cloud native applications
- Developed custom cloud native applications in bash and Go
- Deployed and maintained enterprise JupyterHub in Kubernetes
- Migrated legacy Perl monitoring applications to Python and Go
- Automated Kubernetes application version checking and reporting
- Championed creation of central management API and microservice
- Role: Founder / Mentor / Developer / CEO
Entity: SKILSTAK (formerly SkilStak, Inc.)
Started: May 2013
Location: Davidson, North Carolina and Online
Details:
- Created annual Beginner Boost video series for Twitch and YouTube
- Founded and self-funded corporation to help others learn tech skills
- Mentored 100s and placed dozens in key schools, internships, jobs
- Designed and developed autodidactic, project-driven curriculum
- Live streamed thousands of hours of free video content
- Created SkilBots, unique instructional software framework in Go
- Trained and managed team of teaching assistants selected from members
- Published several opensource contributions on GitHub and GitLab
- Maintained Linux host in cloud for terminal-based (Bash) learning
- Ported parts of Code.org to Python framework for better learning
- Created app for managing SkilBux and passwords in Go and PostgreSQL
- Administered 100s of workstations running Linux, MacOS, and Windows
- Setup and maintained all network operations and cybersecurity
- Successfully managed all business affairs with minimal assistance
- Designed company graphics, web, van wrap, and marketing materials
- Role: Instructor (Computer Programming)
Entity: Woodlawn Private School
Started: August 2018
Stopped: June 2019
Location: Mooresville, North Carolina
Details:
- Mentored and facilitated the learning of 40+ students
- Created original project-based curriculum for web development
- Adopted learning-lab approach, leading two 50-minute labs per week
- Addressed the individual needs of both beginners and advanced
- Role: Senior Software Engineer
Entity: IBM Software Division (Tivoli)
Started: July 2009
Stopped: February 2014
Location: Remote, USA
Details:
- Provided 3rd level support for IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager
- Coded and analyzed 600K lines of C++, Java, TCL, Perl, and Python
- Performed low-level, root cause analysis of core dumps
- Executed complex, multi-host testing with Python Fabric
- Created advanced system performance tests in C with concurrency
- Coded VMWare (ESXi) proxy integration inspectors for TEM (BigFix)
- Became fluent with vSphere API and Relevance (BigFix) language
- Developed over 100 TEM (BigFix) security compliance checks in shell
- Sized and delivered log rotation migration processes in shell
- Participated in and lead Agile SCRUM meetings
- Role: Site Reliability Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
Entity: IBM Global Services
Started: January 2000
Stopped: July 2009
Location: Remote, USA
Details:
- Developed high-volume central multi-threaded TCP/IP server
- Created custom GPG-based transport protocol used for 52K servers
- Contributed to core security compliance for 250 accounts
- Made universal, auto-updating UNIX/Linux endpoint in Perl
- Designed PostgreSQL code and data store accepting terabytes a week
- Spearheaded implementation of source management and package bundling
- Automated backup of wiki documentation and source tree
- Mentored and lead team in adoption of industry SRE practices
- Role: Adjunct Instructor
Entity: Rowan Cabarrus Community College
Started: June 2011
Stopped: May 2013
Location: Remote / Salisbury, North Carolina
Details:
- Developed curriculum and videos for beginning web development course
- Instruct and mentor beginning web development course
- Guide Summer camp teens learning beginning game development
- Role: Instructor / Guide
Entity: My Aloha, Paddle Sports and Fitness
Started: June 2011
Stopped: August 2011
Location: Lake Norman, North Carolina
Details:
- Instructed clients in basic stand up paddle boarding
- Assist with marketing, promotion, and evangelism
- Organized local paddle boarding meetups
- Role: Cofounder / Developer
Entity: EDTECH Retreat, LLC
Started: July 2009
Stopped: May 2010
Location: Remote, Second Life Virtual Worlds Platform
Details:
- Founded EDTECH Retreat Community and developed EDTECH Retreat Island
- Provided training and educational "playground" for NCTIES 2010
- Lead several school district skills training workshops
- One of a hundred (from millions) chosen by Linden Labs for preview
- Consult VINE K-12 initiative integrating virtual worlds
- Created Hey Avatar, a Second Life and OpenSim video tutorial series
- Produced videos of virtual events such as VSTE 2010 fashion show
- Developed tools like diploma giver, poseballs, HUDs, games
- Regularly cited for virtual worlds perspective and training focus
- Featured in virtual worlds magazines and book references
- Interviewed on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe
- Panelist on educational 1st Question with Pooky Amsterdam
- Designed company graphics, web, and marketing materials
- Managed all small business finances, marketing, and operations
- Role: Tivoli Administrator
Entity: IBM Global Services
Started: October 2002
Stopped: July 2004
Location: Remote
Details:
- Managed Tivoli endpoint health achieving 99% in first year
- Developed web-based ManageNow ticket system for 20% efficiency gain
- Lead production Tivoli Framework installations and upgrades
- Created numerous administrative tools and commands
- Role: Site Reliability Engineer / Systems Administrator
Entity: IBM Global Services
Started: March 2000
Stopped: October 2002
Location: Remote
Details:
- Achieved 99.97% uptime for 12 Sun, AIX, Linux, and SCO servers
- Provided secondary support for 45 Windows NT/2000 servers
- Conceived and implemented round-trip SMTP mail monitoring system
- Achieved highest customer satisfaction rating, 10 of 10
- Executed live upgrade of main SMTP mail relay (2000-7000)
- Proposed, deployed, and supported team Linux server
- Developed automated system performance reports
- Organized and gave team Linux training, received Thanks award
- Proactively discovered infected hosts behind firewall
- Identified and corrected faulty corporate firewall configuration
- Developed comprehensive tape backup procedure with monitoring
- Managed the corporate domain name server
- Role: Java Developer
Entity: IBM Global Services
Started: January 2000
Stopped: March 2000
Location: Remote
Details:
- Recruited to do financial sector Java applications development
- Department disbanded during month of IBM onboarding
- Independently researched internal opportunities and pivoted
- Role: Full Stack Web Developer
Entity: Nike, Inc. (Nike.com)
Started: August 1999
Stopped: January 2000
Location: Beaverton, Oregon
Details:
- Provided on-going development and support of Nike.com storefront
- Identified, isolated, and reported critical flaw in Java JVM to Sun
- Developed credit card and gift certificate transaction integrations
- Implemented staging and production web publishing process
- Role: Webmaster / Full Stack Web Developer, Lead / Evangelist
Entity: Nike, Inc. (Swooshnet Intranet)
Started: August 1996
Stopped: August 1999
Location: Beaverton, Oregon
Details:
- Created SwooshNet, Nike's first intranet web portal
- One of two to receive company-wide There is No Finish Line award
- Saved over $150k in phone directory costs by putting on web
- Chosen to cover 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics with on-site reporting
- Developed 'Knight-line', live web chat with CEO about labor issues
- Conducted live chat with video with John McEnroe and Marcelo Rios
- Developed custom secure web app for senior management presentations
- Led Y2K project to successful completion $20k under budget on time
- Presented new tech to more than 500 technologists at regional summit
- Received best commuter award for longest regular commute by bike
- Active Hood-to-Coast relay runner and Team Nike Endorphin triathlete
- Role: Full Stack Web Developer
Entity: Self (Independent Contractor)
Started: September 1995
Stopped: February 1997
Details:
- Created currency converter web app with world bank integration
- Implemented password authentication for local web marketing firm
- Developed web interface to product database for regional vendor
- Provided web design consulting to regional advertising firm
- Role: Full Stack Web Developer / Presenter
Entity: Teleport Internet Services
Started: May 1995
Stopped: August 1996
Location: Portland, Oregon
Details:
- Created PageWeaver, world's first web-based site authoring app
- Automated configuration for more than 150 Apache virtual web servers
- Developed web interface to existing help-desk support system
- Authored and maintained server-side scripting library for users
- Moderated 3000+ customers on `teleport.support.cgi` mailing list
- Gave 'Creating Dynamic Web Sites' workshop at Internet Exposition
- Implemented custom web site search engine
- Role: Director of Sales / Full Stack Web Developer
Entity: Fibernet Internet Services
Started: October 1994
Stopped: May 1995
Location: Provo, Utah
Details:
- Designed, developed, and maintained corporate web site and clients'
- Created first public form processing app (`fb.pl`) used by thousands
- Trained corporate teams and executives on emerging Web and Internet
- Actively raised visibility of company through regular networking
- Role: Cruise Director / Interpreter / Technologist / Sales Person
Entity: AmeriRuss Cruise Company
Started: May 1992
Stopped: January 1995
Location: Provo, Utah / Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia / Ukraine
Details:
- Supervised and interpreted tour of ATT facilities for 37 executives
- Directed more than 30 cruises on Volga and Dnepr rivers
- Led dozens of tours of Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
- Organized train travel, lodging, finances, and logistics for groups
- Negotiated sensitive issues in volatile emerging business environment
- Conducted business workshops for Russian executives and passengers
- Mediated Russian-American discussion groups and culture exchanges
- Conducted English and Russian language classes on-ship
- Replaced international faxes with email saving thousands
- Role: Russian Language Lab Instructor
Entity: Brigham Young University, College of Humanities
Started: January 1993
Stopped: June 1994
Location: Provo, Utah
Details:
- Conducted lively Russian learning language focused on discussion
- Administered spoken language assessments
- Selected from dozens of applicants
- Role: French Language Lab Instructor
Entity: Computer Lab Assistant
Started: August 1991
Stopped: June 1994
Location: Provo, Utah
Details:
- Assisted students with state-of-the-art language learning technology
- Managed sound and video multimedia learning lab
- Developed language training tutorials
- Role: Owner and Developer
Entity: Sterling Scholastic Aids
Started: January 1992
Stopped: August 1993
Location: Provo, Utah
Details:
- Formed company to fill need for course-specific flashcards
- Developed flashcard printing and tutorial application
- Partnered with professors and course creators sell from bookstore
- Innovated low-cost printing process using local university services
- Role: Certified Whitewater River Guide / Mountain Bike Tour Guide
Entity: Worldwide River Expeditions
Started: April 1992
Stopped: August 1992
Location: Moab, Utah / Salmon River, Idaho
Details:
- Conducted dozens of river expeditions
- Designated expedition leader on several trips
- Executed complicated trip preparation logistics and setup
- Certified and fully trained in CPR and advance first aid
- Personally rescued one errant kayaker injured after choosing poorly
- Led bicycle tours of historic White Rim Trail in Moab Utah
- Provided mechanical and logistical support for mountain bike events
- Role: Mechanic / Sales Person
Entity: Reed's Bicycles
Started: May 1991
Stopped: April 1992
Location: Orem, Utah
Details:
- Built bicycles from base components, including wheel sets
- Sold and repaired bicycles
- Advised customers on bicycle commuting and local rides
- Role: Software Illustrator
Entity: Taras Linguistic Systems
Started: May 1991
Stopped: August 1991
Location: Provo, Utah
Details:
- Designed main icons for foreign language software tutorial package
- Provided scanned art cleanup
- Role: Trainer / Language and Culture Instructor / Interpreter
Entity: LDS Missionary Training Center
Started: June 1989
Stopped: August 1990
Location: Provo, Utah
Details:
- Trained hundreds in language, teaching, and interpersonal skills
- Promoted to train new instructors in language teaching methodology
- Performed real-time interpretation for French natives
- Conducted culture training workshops for groups of 50+
- Role: Clerk / Stocker
Entity: Kent's IGA
Started: May 1985
Stopped: April 1987
Location: West Valley City, Utah
Details:
- Did a little of everything in a small-town-ish grocery store
- Loved getting to know regulars
- Role: Secondary Cook / Delivery Person
Entity: The Pizza Stop
Started: March 1983
Stopped: April 1985
Location: Magna, Utah
Details:
- Made and delivered New York style pizza at local hot-spot
- Role: Mail Room Attendant
Entity: Zion's Bank
Started: June 1984
Stopped: September 1984
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Details:
- Sorted mail and delivered it to the post office
Projects:
- Name: Bonzai™ Composite Commander
Site: https://github.com/rwxrob/bonzai
Role: Inventor / Developer / Project Lead
Details:
- Meticulously manicured monolith and multicall composite Go binaries
- Name: Parsing Expression Grammar Notation (PEGN)
Site: https://github.com/rwxrob/pegn-spec
Role: Inventor / Developer / Project Lead
Details:
- Extension of Bryan Ford's amazing Parsing Expression Grammar
Volunteer:
- Role: Advisory Committee Invitee
Entity: Rowan Cabarrus Community College
Started: January 2010
Stopped: May 2013
Location: Kannapolis, North Carolina
Details:
- Invited to attend committee meetings shaping policy and direction
- Received special event invite from college President and leadership
- Role: Elective Instructor (Computer Programming) / Advisor
Entity: Community School of Davidson
Started: August 2015
Stopped: December 2015
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Details:
- Lead and mentor student leaders as they instruct 25 students
- Advised school faculty on use of Linux operating system
- Role: Circles Ally (Volunteer Social Worker)
Entity: Lake Norman Christian Mission
Started: July 2010
Stopped: March 2012
Location: Mooresville, North Carolina
Details:
- Trained as Bridges Out of Poverty and Circles Initiative Ally
- Provided assistance and long-term mentoring to victims of poverty
- Role: Scout Master / Assistant Scout Master
Entity: Boy Scouts of America
Started: 2000
Stopped: 2008
Details:
- Lead and instructed hundreds of Boy Scouts (including sons)
- Organized dozens of camps for all levels
- Responded to scouts' requests for computer training
- Role: Docent
Entity: International Society for Technology in Education
Started: August 2009
Stopped: May 2010
Location: Remote, Second Life Virtual Worlds Platform
Details:
- Welcome and provide regular guidance and assistance to educators
- Act as liaison to connecting people with mutual interest
- Assist with virtual world design, development, and scripting
- Directed and created video machinima of events
- Taught virtual skills workshops
- Role: Founder / Mentor / Evangelist
Entity: IBM Second Life Mentor Community
Started: February 2007
Stopped: May 2010
Location: Remote, Second Life Virtual Worlds Platform
Details:
- Organized more than 80 volunteers into community
- Completed IBM (general) Mentor training certification
- Trained hundred of colleagues with Second Life skills
- Lead panel broadcast discussions and social events
- Assisted in build of IBM Mentors clubhouse pier
- Created and maintained community portal and wikis
- Produced training other video content
- Role: Volunteer Representative / Assistant to the President
Entity: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Started: May 1987
Stopped: May 1989
Location: Martinique / Barbados
Details:
- Motivated and managed nine district leaders and 68 missionaries
- Compiled weekly mission progress statistics
- Supervised all mission visa affairs
- Published historical log, weekly written reports, and newsletter
- Supervised and assisted French to English mission translations
- Exercised extreme empathy and development of interpersonal skills
Accolades:
- Name: Eva Feucht
Title: Director, Park Scholarships
Text: |
Congratulations! On behalf of North Carolina State University, I am
pleased to announce that [your community member] has been named
a Finalist for Park Scholarships, one of the most prestigious merit
scholarship programs in the nation. Thanks in part to your
thoughtful recommendation, our Selection Committee was able to gain
valuable insight into this student's exceptional qualifications.
- Name: Justine Okerson and Ann Smith
Title: Scholar Selection Team
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We are pleased to inform you that [your community member] is
a finalist for the Morehead-Cain, the first merit scholarship
program established in the United States.
- Name: Brent S. Clark
Title: Site Reliability Engineer, HomeAdvisor
Note: Sent "Thanks Award" for helping learn Linux
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Robert is a very skilled programmer. His ability to come up with
solutions to problems enables them to be resolved faster. I worked
with him as a Systems Administrator. He was able to use his skills
to automate many of the processes that made work much easier for the
rest of the team. His zeal for coding prompted other team members to
strengthen and/or learn programming skills.
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Started as "junior" developer for $100k annual salary
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Rob helped me get out of retail and get work at a major software
company, using modern tools and technology. Along the way, I worked
on my own projects, learned how to use the linux command line like
a pro, and just learned a lot in general. Rob's mentorship has
definitely changed my life for the better!
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Comment from web site
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Just wanted to say your website has been hugely useful to me and
a few of my peers in scientific computing, who often need to use
terminal but are more focused on science than coding practices.
Please keep on adding to your website. I will definitely refer my
colleagues to it going forward :)
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Comment from web site
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Good site you have here.. It's difficult to find high quality
writing like yours nowadays. I really appreciate people like you!
Take care!!
- Name: Ryan Brink
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I want to thank you for all of the amazing information & resources
that are available here on your site. It is always a pleasure when
I come here and see a new blog post -- even (especially) when the
subject matter goes over my head -- it shows how much room I have to
grow.) I have been visiting your site semi-frequently throughout
the year. It is amazing and encouraging to see how passionate you
are about getting others to understand technology on a deeper level.
I am a web developer who did not take the traditional college path
to get where I am (boot camp grad, please don't hold that against
me). When I visit SkilStak I view it as being like a path of
breadcrumbs leading me to the things that are important and that
I should be focusing my time & effort on learning. You have my
gratitude for so freely sharing such a vast amount of info, often in
areas that reveal to me where my tech "blind spots" are so that
I may delve deeper. My goal for 2020 is to have my personal website
up & running. SkilStak has been a big inspiration on my finally
putting in some work towards that goal.
Thank you for creating this amazing space for those of us who would
otherwise have never met you in person. Keep up the incredible
work!
PS - You may recall that we had a brief Twitter exchange several
months ago. I have been learning to do more on the terminal than
ever before, but I am still hoping for and looking forward to an
eventual Terminal Master course! Until then I will be following the
book you recommend here (Learning the Linux Command Line, complete
with Bash v4 - I installed Ubuntu last week and I can't wait to
become a true terminal master!)
- Name: Alastair
Text:
Hi there. Just read you bad parent blog piece. You lost skilstak in
your medium/twitter handle so I thought I’d see what it is. Broken
by the looks of it. Good in you for becoming an educator. It’s not
easy but I hope it’s rewarding.
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Parent of a mentored community member
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Hi Rob - No reason for my email other than to say thank you for
everything you do for [our son]! He absolutely loves coding and his
hour with you is his favorite of the week. He spends his free time
working through the problems you help him come up with and he knows
what he wants to do with his life. We are so happy he has found
something he loves and just wanted to say thanks!"
- Name: Gabe Miller
Note: Employed at 16 as developer for solar energy company
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I have been with SkilStak for about 6 years now and it has been one
of the most valuable and impactful experiences in my life. I feel
that Mr. Rob has trained me extremely well and I feel prepared for
my future in programming and engineering. Mr. Rob has done so many
things for me over the years and caused me to get a extremely
valuable payed internship before I even finished High School, not to
mention multiple job offers with 6 digit salaries. I highly
recommend SkilStak for anyone who is interested in programming and
wants to be prepared for a career in programming and technology. It
has been more valuable than any other school of any kind that I have
been to. Mr. Rob and SkilStak taught me so much and prepared me for
even more. I wouldn't trade my experience there for anything in the
world.
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Solar energy company that employed Gabe Miller
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Rob, you referred Gabe Miller to us last year at ... he's been
amazing!
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Member of private mentored community
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Thank you so much for introducing me to coding! I have learned so
much. I love being able to create something anyone can enjoy. I hope
to see you in the Fall!"
- Name: Bob Theisen
Title: Network Engineering Instructor, Mitchel Community College
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I just want to encourage you to keep teaching. You’re gifts aren't
just technical. You are making more of an impact then you know.
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Parent of private mentored community member
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I just wanted to let you know that [my son] has really been enjoying
camp this week. He talks non-stop about it when he gets home. He’s
so excited about what he’s doing!! He just told me this has been the
best camp ever because they are learning and then get to play with
what what they learned. 😀
- Name: Mary Muchane
Note: Mother of private community member accepted to NCSSM
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Mur and I really, really believe in what Skilstak is about and what
you are doing and have done for dozens of young boys and girls.
Beyond the coding and the career preparation, Skilstak provides a ‘
place‘ for them and gives them the courage to wear their nerd badges
proudly. I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the impact of
Skilstak will last throughout their lives regardless of the
trajectory each takes.
- Name: Jennifer Miller
Note: Parent of private mentored community member
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My son attended the Minecraft camp today and is hooked! He is
registered for a coding class now every week! He just keeps thanking
us for finding this ‘cool’ place! I highly recommend for kids who
love technology and want to learn more!
- Name: Bella
Note: Private mentored community member
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I have enjoyed my time learning at Skilstak! My favorite thing is
that we are always changing and learning the newest available
material for web development. Most of my girl friends don’t like to
talk about code, but it is because they don’t understand it. I have
found other coding girls at Skilstak, I enjoy figuring out
assignments together with them and also working at my own pace.
- Name: Joni Dunn
Note: Parent of private mentored community member
Text:
Rob does a fantastic job of engaging and teaching the kids without
them even knowing they‘re learning. :) We’ll be repeat customers
every time my grandson comes for a visit!
- Name: Dena Miller
Note: Mother of Gabe Miller
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My son has been attending SkilStak for almost four years now. He
started out in Code and Play and has progressed to Pro, gaining
invaluable coding skills and knowledge every step of the way! In
addition to classes, he has served as a TA or teacher’s assistant
and aspires to be an instructor as his part-time job during his high
school years. He has not only learned several coding languages, but
has acquired a valuable work ethic and sense of community and active
citizenship. I have no doubt, that he truly has discovered his
lifelong passion and career path while attending classes at
SkilStak. I am extremely grateful to Rob for providing my son with
his incredible coding abilities and life skills, and more
importantly, for serving as a mentor and positive male role model to
an impressionable teenager! I would wholeheartedly recommend the
SkilStak program as an extracurricular activity to any future coders
and their parents!
- Name: Sandy M.
Note: \"Happy Mom\" of private mentored community member
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Our quiet, unexcitable 11 year old son has been taking classes with
Rob and his crew at Skilstak going on 3 1/2 years. These classes are
a challenge that school can not provide. He says that they are just
fun and he likes creating on the computer. But we see much more! We
have seen him become more creative and analytical, confident,
independent, and self-sufficient. Mr. Rob has opened his eyes to
future job possibilities and the importance of professionalism and
good character. As well as legitimate computer programming
instruction. He can’t wait to go to the classes!
These classes are more than standard ‘summer camp’ computer classes.
Students are expected to actually learn different languages and
create programs. They will get certified at their own pace. And the
classes are challenging. We highly recommend Skilstak to anyone
wanting to do more than ‘play on a computer’.
- Name: savagebananasoup
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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I've been a 'software developer' (whatever that means) for a couple
of years, been using Linux as a hobbyist for 10 years and I'm
learning loads from this guy.
- Name: qmacro99
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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rwxrob's influence is all over my dotfiles now, bound into the way
I work.
- Name: Andriy Lapitskyy
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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Wanted to let you know I watched the 0-3 days [Beginner Boost] and
I liked what you had to say it's like you were speaking to my soul
😅
- Name: Lio Makki
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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Not everybody can recognize the value of Rob's content only the
intelligent people do.
- Name: Zer0CoolAZ
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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Just wanted to reach out and say thank you for the environment that
you've fostered thus far, it's always exciting to learn from someone
so versed. Your playlist selection has also been a live saver for
many early morning starts where dousing fires was needed and sanity
was slipping.
- Name: Randy
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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Hey Rob, I’m a fairly new viewer and wanted to say thank you for the
work you are doing to build your knowledge tools and the community
around it. But also for the free conversations and teachings you
are providing on YouTube. I agree 100% with your comments about
Facebook and Google and think your knowledge projects are
fascinating. But I also identity with your recent wisdom about
mentoring and teaching. I am 45 years old, graduated with a CS
degree in 2002, but because of various reasons I did not do well in
college and didn’t pursue programming until about 6 years ago.
Through that pursuit I found a job which lead to a second job which
had me working on projects with zero documentation with languages
I did not know. I struggled but eventually figured out what
I needed to get the work done, fix bugs, and add features. That was
until I burned out February of last year. Since then I’ve been on
my own path of self learning and healing.
So when I first heard you talk about what an autodidact was
I realized that I’ve already been doing that because I’ve had too.
And that I am being one now. Your conversations about all this has
given me context and validation. So once again thank you for
putting all this out there for people like me to see.
- Name: rossim2i2
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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This is such a small and trivial piece of code, but the amount I've
learned has been invaluable. Especially the feedback you've taken
the time to provide. [After woring on `cmdbox-isosec` with Git.]
- Name: iambrockvond
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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I am catching up with the Boosts on 2x. Not a beginner but it's
filling in tons of gaps. Wanted to say thank you for this. Excited
to catch up to live.
- Name: Mitchell Hynes:
Note: Message from YouTube Viewer
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Just watched your AMA comparing Rust hype to Node hype and as
a Rustacean of 2 years I couldn't agree more. It convinced me to not
put all my eggs in one basket and write more Go+C. Love your videos.
- Name: zbrow
Note: Message from YouTube Viewer
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Rob could do a video on addition and subtraction and I'd still find something to learn.
- Name: jaysega
Note: Message from Twitch and YouTube Viewer
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You know what's funny, after joining this stream just a few days
ago, I removed 95%+ of my twitch subs, and 99% of my youtube subs.
Signal to Noise ratio is real, made me realize how much noise I was
letting in. There are some true gurus I've also unsubbed just
because, right now I have to admit I cannot benefit from all of
them. It's not their fault they are just putting themselves out
there. But it's the rare few who are guru-ish status who also can
speak to newbs like myself.
- Name: almrotation
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I've only been here for about an hour and you've literally broken
the mental barrier in my head telling me I cant do this on my own
thank you for the wisdom and motivation.
- Name: lattjorr
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очень крута дед
- Name: cradersec
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I stumbled across your 2021 boost repo and I really appreciate the
way of thinking that you are promoting. I think it is rare in the
current time to have people advocating for critical thinking. Keep
up the good work.
- Name: ind1emonk3y
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I explained the very basic of what I learned from your Boost on
docker to friend telling him, I can explain you in less than
10minutes.... In the end, we played for one hour and he was amazed
by containers!
- Name: ChOkO08_
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I thought i knew shellscript until i came across @rwxrob streams :)
It's been really entertaining to "relearn" it with his examples.
- Name: goobus_maximus
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Yeah, I know this is a coding channel! Your Youtube vids have really
helped me - I'm nearly through an interview process for an MLOps
role & your content is a meaningful part of my success.
- Name: adykaaa
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man, I should watch you more, you are motivating as fuck
- Name: KonQuesting
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Becoming a "terminal native" has put me way ahead in that Amazon
training program I'm doing. Other people in there are network
engineers, Java developers, and they all think I'm hot shit. So
rob's knowledge has definitely been a great boon to me. And this
community is stacked with amazing people.
- Name: qt_pi3
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I feel like I've entered a new chapter in my life. I was living in
BRE (before rwxrob era) now im in RE (rwx rob era).
- Name: narendev
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Glad to be here , crunching through your beginner boost vids. They
are great as I learn more and more Linux in just few hours than
stacking up bunch of linux related books.
- Name: awptakesnoskill
Text: idk why but watching rob helps me focus
- Name: cronto82
Text: This is best channel on Twitch
- Name: stitchedd
Text: The beginner boost is the reason I started using Linux. I cant imagine going back.
- Name: HeavyDrinker90210
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When considering "Standing on the shoulders of giants"; you are one
of this giants. o7 sir.
- Name: KennithNichol
Text: Your scripts are artisan level.
- Name: archification
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Hello sir rob. Not sure if you feel like reading or responding to
chat right now but I just wanted to thank you. You don't know it but
you helped me through a few dark times in my life. I'm starting my
first job in 10 years 2 hours from now. From nothing to database
admin.
- Name: thed2
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guys, fyi the beginner boosts that rob is doing are really helpful,
got my knowledge and first job in cybersecurity with his boosts :)
- Name: CuriousE1k
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I've learned a lot from you even though i'm here infrequently. It's
helped me greatly in my career as a SDET and advancing my knowledge
and i'm going to be continuing it and the self education as
a result. You helped me not give up. So thank you.
- Name: miluba86
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I'm in health it so I am behind 5 to 10 years technology wise... do
still doing java and angular... but cloud movement change this
radically... we need k8s so questions arise... why JVM in
Containers... why so much ram consumption... so I started learning
go got good advice in here... so thank you Rob and community for
your help!
- Name: be1ancour
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I need to tell you I copy some stuff from your Workspace container
and make my own personalized. Still is in progress I will use it for
Java development I want to express my gratitude for real these
videos of beginner boost helped me a lot.
- Name: KonQuesting
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I just got a job offer for the most money I've ever made in my life.
Never worked in IT before, only FOSS experience. I owe you for
giving me the confidence to believe I could be "enterprise ready"
with strong fundamentals, and cover my knowledge gaps as an
autodidact.
- Name: ohyounaasty
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hey there, stumbled across your youtube a while ago and it inspired
me to remove all my text editors and just use vim all the time
(something i've been meaning to do for 10+ years) - just wanted to
thank you, it's been transformative, really
- Name: ghost_steve
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Hey Rob I see your busy, just wanted to say thank you for these
streams got me a job as Infrastructure eng.
- Name: youaresourcecode
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I personally think Rob is best example of what's programming
means... I imagine unix core creators designing and programming unix
operating system kind of like Rob shows us in his streams. Keep it
up Rob!!!!!
- Name: rwxLethalz
Text: >-
Cause of rob ive gotten a job as a network tech making 25 hr just
a start but it helps.
- Name: Wxaaz
Text: >-
im from africa and a company in europe accepted me , my life
probably gonna change , but without the fuel i've once, i would
never sacrifice this far, so thank you so much
- Name: qaerst
Text: >-
I've literally built out my future career path on your advice , and
it helped me immensly. If you're ever in the EU , beer is on me.
- Name: rwillex
Text: >-
I just want to share with you that I got a "devops" job. Thank you so
much for all the help, and also the beginner boost helped me a lot.
- Name: IMExploder
Text: I got my first k8s job last week, partly because of you.
- Name: oppp20039
Text: >-
What I like most about Rob is that he is not a nerd. I can't stand
nerds and never been able to be friend with one but this is one of
the few channels where a human is actually streaming. Maybe because
you talk about your life, maybe because you have strong opinions,
maybe because you understand life and things outside of coding.
- Name: appproachsloth
Text: Rob is going to make a new standard I swear.