Open Source Career in Malaysia

Open Source related career opportunity in Malaysia. Presented to UIAM student during their Open Source Day event

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1. Career In Open Source An Experience Sharing
2. Topic • Introduction and Background • Fields in Open Source • Career Opportunities • Joining and Learning Open Source • Community and Open Source Activity • Myth and Reality • Future Open Source Career
3. Introduction Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan System Operations Manager FoodReg Malaysia Sdn. Bhd
4. Background • Bachelor Degree in Electric and Electronic, Universiti Tenaga Nasional • 8 years working experience in Open Source • 10 years personal experience in Open Source • Linux Professional Institute Certification 1, Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Novell Certified Linux Professional, ITIL Foundation v3
5. Contribution to Open Source • Founder Projek Munsyi – Malay Language Open Source Translation Project • Malay Translator for GNU nano, KDE, Abiword, Fedora, Mandriva • Bug reporter for Debian, polib, KDE • Fedora Ambassador Malaysia • Project Director for Malaysia Open Source Conference 2011 in Penang
6. Working Experience
7. Positions Hold • System Consultant • Tutor • R&D Engineer • System Engineer • Linux/Unix System Engineer • IT System Engineering Manager I • Linux Consultant • System Operations Manager
8. Salary 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Company 0 10,000 RM
9. Fields in Open Source • System Administration • Programming • Database Administration • Storage • Network • Animation • Security
10. Career Opportunity ➔ 433 Linux,Unix ➔ 20 Python ➔ 54 Perl ➔ 232 PHP ➔ 16 Ruby ➔ 206 MySQL ➔ 2 Postgre ➔ 57 Apache ➔ 4 Ubuntu ➔ 5 SuSE ➔ 18 Red Hat, Redhat ➔ 65 jQuery ➔ 1 Snort ➔ 41 Android ➔ 4 FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD Searched at
11. Career Opportunity ➔ 181 Linux,Unix ➔ 8 Python ➔ 33 Perl ➔ 197 PHP ➔ 20 Ruby ➔ 173 MySQL ➔ 4 Postgre ➔ 38 Apache ➔ 1 Ubuntu ➔ 1 SuSE ➔ 8 Red Hat, Redhat ➔ 52 jQuery ➔ 1 Snort ➔ 43 Android ➔ 1 FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD Searched at
12. Company That Provide Open Source Career • ACS • Penang Seagate • ON Semiconductor • Scope International (Standard Chartered) • Numonyx (STMicroelectronics) • Maxis • IBM • F-Secure • CSC Malaysia • Altera Corporation • Spansion (Fujitsu) • Parkson • Prudential Services Asia • YTL Communication • Digi Telecom
13. Professional Certificate • Career in Open Source usually does not require professional certificate, but it is good to have • What is more important are the capability to master and become an expert on a particular Open Source software or technology • Professional certificate is just a “confirmation” of personal capability • Multinational corporation might need professional certificate because they already accustomed to non-Open Source career
14. Joining Open Source • It will take a long time to master Open Source • The best time to join Open Source is during university years • I learn about Open Source when in Year 2, with help from community and documentation on Internet • Must have a deep “inquisitive” attitude
15. Learning Open Source • Depend on your interest • I like Linux and application in network • I learn how to install and configure Linux, such as Red Hat/Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Slackware • I create Internet sharing system, music streaming server, printer sharing and file sharing during university years
16. Joining the Community • The fastest way to learn Open Source is by joining community • Community is the knowledge sharing centre • Community is the local reference centre that are usually joined by expert in certain software/technology • Nearly all problem that you face with Open Source, have been faced by other people, and there are solution for it
17. Community That You Can Join • OSDC.my • UTM Open Source Software Group • MyPenguin99 • FOSSmy • OWASP Malaysia • Fedora Malaysia • OpenSuSE Malaysia • Ubuntu Malaysia • Debian Malaysia • Code Android Malaysia • Wordpress Malaysia • PCBSD Malaysia • FOSSChix Malaysia • PHP Malaysia • Python Malaysia • Joomla Malaysia
18. Open Source Conference in Malaysia • Malaysia Open Source Conference – organized by OSDC.my • MyGOSSCON – organized by MAMPU ➢ Each conference have special rate for student that are usually lower than public participant ➢ Best opportunity to know software, company and Open Source expert ➢ Good place to create your network
19. Myth and Reality • Myth: Open Source did not have career opportunity • Reality: As listed, there are a lot of career opportunity in Open Source, either local or MNC. The more important question is, are you more expert than your next competitor to get the job offered
20. Myth and Reality • Myth: Open Source is hard to learn (have steep learning curve) • Reality: Any technology is not easy to learn, either Open Source or not. To master SAP, for example, you need a long time and have to take expensive courses. With Open Source, you require long time as well, but the information and knowledge about the technology can be obtained easily and did not have to take expensive courses.
21. Future Open Source Career • Virtualization • Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, OpenVZ • Cloud Computing • Drizzle, OpenStack, Eucaplytus • Storage • OpenFiler, OpenDedup, ZFS • NoSQL Database • Cassandra, Hadoop, Hypertable
22. Future Open Source Career • Smart Phone • Android, MeeGo, Tizen • ERP • Adempiere, OpenBravo • Animation • Blender 3D, Synfig • Embedded Linux • Gumstix, uClinux, SheevaPlug
23. Thank You Discussion and Question sharuzzaman@gmail.com