I am a technical writer, I worked for Canonical from March 2016 to April 2017. I work for Red Hat now.

I am a former member and chair of the Forum Council (for http://ubuntuforums.org). I previously sat on the Ubuntu Membership Board for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-membership-board-emea).

I have a blog at http://matthewhelmke.net/ and a site dedicated to my other writing at http://matthewhelmke.com/ which includes Ubuntu Unleashed, The Official Ubuntu Book, VMware Cookbook, and two self-published books about Moroccan culture.

I've been using nothing but Ubuntu since somewhere around October 2005.