Monty Taylor

Open Source Executive and Free Software Hacker. Expert in Cloud Computing, Large Scale Systems, CI/CD and DevOps. Frequently found speaking on the Global conference circuit. Constantly wearing an extreme amount of hats.

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

OpenStack Technical Committee Member

2012-present

OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors Individual Member

2012-2016

OpenStack Project Policy Board Member

2011-2012

OpenStack Infra

Founder, PTL Emeritus, Core Team Member

2010-present

Red Hat

Member of Technical Staff, Office of Technology: Dallas, TX

2016-present

NYU

Adjunct Professor, ITP: New York, NY

2016

IBM

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

2015-2016

Hewlett-Packard

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

2011-2015

Rackspace Cloud

System Architect: New York, NY

2010-2011

The MySQL Years 2005-2010

Rackspace

System Architect: Seattle, WA / New York, NY

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

Sun Microsystems

Staff Engineer: Seattle, WA

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

MySQL

Senior Consultant: Seattle, WA / Stockholm, Sweden

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

Startups 1999-2005

StageFiles

Founder, Partner: Dallas, TX / Seattle, WA

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

In August Productions

Founder, CEO

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

HRSmart

Senior System Administrator: Dallas, TX

Apache, MySQL, Debian GNU/Linux, dirvish, Exim, Debian Packaging

Information Innovation

Information Artist / Lead Developer: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

Pre-history 1995-1999

Branch Bank and Trust

Enterprise Management Systems Analyst: Wilson, NC

Tivoli, Perl, ksh, AIX, Windows

Best Consulting: Group Health Cooperative

Consultant: Seattle, WA

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

EDS: Russell Stover Candies, Kansas City, MO

Information Analyst

Perl, ksh, Sybase, T-SQL, AIX

Fujitsu Network Communications, Dallas, TX

UNIX Admin/Support

AIX, C, Framemaker SDK, ksh

IBM, Raleigh, NC

UNIX Admin/Support

MVS, AIX, C, ksh