Monty Taylor

Red Hat

Member of Technical Staff, Office of the CTO: Dallas, TX

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 openstacksdk project.

OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors

Individual Member

2012-2016,2018-present

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

IBM

Distinguished Engineer, Cloud: New York, NY / Dallas, TX

2015-2016

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

Hewlett-Packard

Distinguished Technologist, Cloud: New York, NY / Palo Alto, CA

2011-2015

• Led teams focused on CI and CD of OpenStack for both Public and Private cloud products
• Grew two separate teams in parallel, one internal and one external. Each went from 2 to ~50 over a two year period.
• "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 creation of Zuul
• 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.

OpenDev

Founder, Core Team Member

2010-present

• Founded the OpenStack Infrastructure 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

OpenStack Technical Committee Member

2012-2017

• Oversaw technical governance of the OpenStack project.
• Grew project and organization from 50 to 2500 contributors.

OpenStack Project Policy Board Member

2011-2012

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

NYU

Adjunct Professor, ITP: New York, NY

2016

• Taught course on "Lighting Without the Board" - focusing on custom programmatic control of lighting and overview of lighting design.
• Guest lectures on Privacy in the Digitial Age.

Rackspace Cloud

System Architect: New York, NY

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.

Rackspace

System Architect: Seattle, WA / New York, NY

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: Seattle, WA

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

Senior Consultant: Seattle, WA / Stockholm, Sweden

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.

StageFiles

Founder, Partner: Dallas, TX / Seattle, WA

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

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, WA

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, MA

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, ME

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

• Created an Online menu system for restaurants.

North Carolina State University: Raleigh, NC

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, GA

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, GA

Python

• Developed a Python library implementation of RFC 1861 - SNPP.

Pre-history 1995-1999