Monty Taylor

OpenStack Technical Committee Member

2012-present

Oversee technical governance of the OpenStack project.

OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors Individual Member

2012-2016

Oversaw business, legal and branding concerns representing the Individual Members of the Foundation.

OpenStack Project Policy Board Member

2011-2012

Oversaw overall governance of OpenStack in the days before the Foundation was established.

OpenStack Infra

Founder, PTL Emeritus, Core Team Member

2010-present

Founded the OpenStack Infra team, responsible for development, operation and scaling of all of the support systems for OpenStack.
Built world's largest Open Source CI infrastructure, supporting 2500 developers world wide, landing 10k changes per month and consuming approximately 20k cloud servers per day.
Oversaw the creation of Zuul, Nodepool, Storyboard, git-review, pbr, elastic-recheck and countless other systems
Wrote shade and os-client-config libraries to drive multi-cloud interoperability and orchestration.
Ansible core developer and owner of OpenStack and Puppet modules

Red Hat

Member of Technical Staff, Office of Technology

2016-present

Driving strategy related to CI/CD.
Leading development team focused on Zuul. Specifically focused on delivering the Ansible-based Zuul v3 to allow for richer multi-node testing and reduction of difference between testing and production.
Facilitating multi-cloud OpenStack efforts through Shade project.

IBM

Distinguished Engineer, Cloud

2015-2016

Led OpenStack Innovation team focused on CI/CD and scaling of OpenStack for Public Cloud.

Hewlett-Packard

Distinguished Technologist, Cloud

2011-2015

Led teams focused on CI and CD of OpenStack for both Public and Private cloud products
"Face of OpenStack" for HP. drove partnerships and customer engagements externally. Represented OpenStack internally to engineering organizations across Business Units.
Staffed for and achieved technical leadership and recognition for HP in OpenStack. Based on C-Suite requests housed over half of the OpenStack Technical Committee and many PTLs within my team. Drove HP to be the top overall contributor to OpenStack during my tenure.
Oversaw the creation of TripleO, which was the basis of HP Helion and is now the foundation of Red Hat's OpenStack product line.
Oversaw the creation of Ironic and Bifrost.
Oversaw the stabalization of Keystone.
Staffed and led the OpenStack Infra team singlehandedly. Grew community consensus of the need for broader staffing and succeeded in achieving divestiture of the team from being a single-company team.

Rackspace Cloud

System Architect

2010-2011

Helped start the OpenStack project (see creation line on https://launchpad.net/openstack.
Created a working development process, code review system and instituted the concept of "gated commits" where code only landed if tests passed and where no develper had direct commit access.
Laid ground work for scaling the developer ecosystem from ~40 developers to the current average of 2500 in any given six month period.
Coordinated with varying and competing interests from teams at Rackspace, NASA and Canonical.

The MySQL Years 2005-2010

Rackspace

System Architect

C++, Python, Drizzle, Linux, OSX, Solaris

Core developer on Drizzle: a modern fork of MySQL for the Cloud
Wrangled Drizzle build and plugin sub-systems.
Managed and owned Drizzle coding standards and C++ standardization.
Authored pandora-build - A set of simple and robust autotools macros.
Worked on Bazaar and Rackspace Cloud plugins for Hudson

Sun Microsystems

Staff Engineer

C++, Drizzle, MySQL, Linux, OSX, Solaris

Core developer on Drizzle: a modern fork of MySQL for the Cloud
Wrangled Drizzle build and plugin sub-systems.
Managed and owned Drizzle coding standards and C++ standardization.
Drizzle "Captain" - primary community code liason.
Authored pandora-build - A set of simple and robust autotools macros.
Authored drizzle-interface - Bindings to libdrizzle.
Authored gearman-interface - Bindings to libgearman.

MySQL, Inc.

Senior Consultant

MySQL, MySQL Cluster, Heartbeat, DRBD, Linux, C++, C#, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby

Solutions Architect for top 10 web properties, telcos and gaming companies.
Expert in High Availability and Clustering Solutions.
Authored NDB/Bindings - Wrappers for MySQL Cluster NDB API in Java, Python, Ruby, C#, Perl and Lua.
Member of the MySQL Debian Packaging team.
Technical owner of MySQL/Linbit relationship related to DRBD.

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StageFiles, LLC

Founder, Partner

Plone, Python, mod_python, TurboGears, Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux

Started, ran and managed company with partner.
Designed and developed a web-based portfolio system for Theatrical Design.

In August Productions, Inc.

Founder, CEO

Python, Zope, elisp, LaTeX, exim, ZODB, GTK, Glade, Cyrus, SASL, SquirrelMail, Apache, Debian GNU/Linux, Debian Packaging FreeBSD

Started and managed small business concerns, including hiring, payroll and billing.
Designed an extensible theatrical lighting control system.
Wrote a play typesetting program.
Co-developed email and web hosting system.
Authored an RFP response with Zope Corp. for an online testing system.

Clients included:

Washington Mutual, Seattle, Washington

C#, Python, LaTeX, Python, Subversion, Apache2, Tomcat, Solaris, Windows XP

Developed reporting solution for Loan Prepayment Modeling.
Provided system support including administration and system design.

Monster.com, Boston, Massachusetts

Zope, Python, DTML, C#, SQL Server, Perforce, Windows 2000

Single point of contact for Zope related issues for the organization.

Tahinis Mediterranean Bistro, Bar Harbor, Maine

Plone, Python, Javascript, CSS, Debian GNU/Linux

Created an Online menu system for restaurants.

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

Zope, Python, mod-perl, Javascript, CSS, Apache, Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris

Created a system to help students write better lab reports.
Created a system to protect copywritten works used in course materials.
Worked on web-based system to translate Western Characters into Hindi.

Cox Interactive Media, Atlanta, Georgia

Zope, Python, Oracle, PL/SQL, Java, Solaris

Implemented a Content Management System.

Thingamy, Oslo, Norway

Python

Wrote a tool to migrate data from legacy database to ZODB.

Alexander Consulting, London, England

Zope

Provided solution assessment for proposed CRM System.

iuveno, Ingolstadt, Germany

Zope, Python, LDAP, IMAP, SuSE GNU/Linux, ZEO

Worked on a web-based CRM system that interfaced Palm Pilots.

MTNI, Atlanta, Georgia

Python

Developed a Python library implementation of RFC 1861 - SNPP.

HRSmart, Plano, Texas

Senior System Administrator

Apache, MySQL, Debian GNU/Linux, dpkg, dirvish, Exim, nagios

Administered Debian GNU/Linux, Apache and MySQL servers.

Information Innovation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Information Artist / Lead Developer

Perl, PHP, MySQL, Oracle, Apache, Zope, Python, CVS, RedHat GNU/Linux, Solaris, MacOS X

Led development efforts for web-based strategic intelligence product.
Designed and developed Internet news-feed reading and processing system.
Architected internal company systems for messaging and Intranet.

Pre-history 1995-1999

Branch Bank and Trust, Wilson, North Carolina

Enterprise Management Systems Analyst

Perl, ksh, AIX, Windows

Wrote and maintained Perl and shell scripts for Tivoli system automation.

Best Consulting: Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington

Consultant

Perl, ksh, Sybase, T-SQL, Stored Procedures, Solaris

Wrote code to update Data Warehouse Common Dimensions tables.

EDS: Russell Stover Candies, Kansas City, Missouri

Information Analyst

Perl, ksh, Sybase, T-SQL, AIX

Administered systems and performed DBA tasks supporting a 24x7 manufacturing and shipping environment.

Fujitsu Network Communications, Richardson, Texas

UNIX Admin/Support

AIX, C, Framemaker SDK, ksh

Provided system and user support for Desktop AIX systems.

IBM, RTP, North Carolina

UNIX Admin/Support

MVS, AIX, C, ksh

Provided system and AIX support for the TCP Performance Testing on MVS

Links and Media

Wikipedia: Monty_Taylor

Infoworld: The 39 Most Important People in Cloud Computing

Wired: Why Open Source Software is like Burning Man (only better)

Jay Jamison: The kind of blew my mind

OpenStack 2010-present

The MySQL Years 2005-2010

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Pre-history 1995-1999

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