Monty Taylor

Rackspace Cloud

System Architect

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

• Core developer on Drizzle: a modern fork of MySQL for the Cloud
• Conference Speaker at conferences worldwide (MySQL User's Conference, Velocity, linux.conf.au, Texas Linux Fest)
• 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

MySQL, Inc. / Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

Staff Engineer

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

• Core developer on Drizzle: a modern fork of MySQL for the Cloud
• Conference Speaker at conferences worldwide (MySQL User's Conference, JavaOne, OSCon, Velocity, linux.conf.au, Percona Performance Conf)
• 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.
• Conference Speaker at various conferences worldwide on a wide variety of subjects. (MySQL User's Conference, JavaOne, PyCon, MySQL DevConf, University of São Paulo)
• Member of the MySQL Debian Packaging team.
• Technical owner of MySQL/Linbit relationship related to DRBD.

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.