I joined Red Hat as an intern in 2005, right at the start of the Frysk project. I worked a little bit on Java-gnome but mostly Frysk.
In 2006 I submitted a paper to GUADEC but was unable to secure funding. My talk was given by Stan Cox instead, who was introduce as Sami Wagiaalla :)
I graduated in 2007 and have been working for Red Had full time since.