Red Hat Experience

This week I am participating in the Red Hat TY module 2025.

Monday

Today, I and other TY students in this year’s TY program, recieved an introduction to the course and a talk on the roles and history of Red Hat. Throughout the day, we undertook multiple team building excersises to help to get to know each other and become familiarised with the layout and facilities of the Red Hat Waterford branch. These included a Wii sports competition, pool, chess and more. I found this a great way to interact with other poeple and I got the opportunity to talk with different members of the organisation to see what the work life of Red Hat intails.

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Tuesday

Our second day as part of the Red Hat TY course was more hands-on than yesterday. We first delved into the concepts of Git and GitHub as ways of sharing and developing programs and making them open source for the world to use, interact with and improve. Afterwards, we explored the basics of the Python programming language. I had already much experience with this language but I was not so familliar with using the terminal. This opportunity allowed me to learn to use the basics of it and I think this will prove an important skill going into the future.

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Wednesday

Wednesday, in comparison to the previous two days, was more talk-oriented. We recieved muliple talks on the history of computing, the workings of the cloud and the different carrer paths that current interns at Red Hat underwent that wound in many different ways before ening up in the organisation. I found it intriguing to discover that there are are so many varied options and pathways to navigate from job to job. We also got to dabble briefly in the Bash programming language and took a deeper look into the terminal. Finally, in small groups, we undertook an engineering project where we had to construct a rollercoaster from paper straws and tape. This was definetly a very informative and enjoyable day and I learned much from it.

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Thursday

Already the second-last day of this year’s Red Hat TY work experience, the week seems to have sped by. Today we focused more so on AI, its foundations and implementation. We recieved another facinating talk, this time concerning AI and got to play around with Google’s Notebook LM - a platform that allows you to create your own personal language model with your chosen sources as a base.

Friday

Today is my last day here at Red Hat. The week seems to have gone by too quickly. Overall, I really enjoyed the experience and I feel I have learned much from this experience. I also got to meet a lot of new people in and running the TY program. I came into this program to see what worklife was all about here and it seems to be an area I would like to work in in the future.