Greetings. I'd also like to run for the Technical Committee. About Me ========
I've been a software engineer or ops person for around 15 years. In that time I've worked for universities, governments, a proprietary software vendor, Google and Canonical. I've worked both in Australia and in Silicon Valley. I am also the Director for linux.conf.au 2013, an awesome Open Source conference in Australia which just happens to have heaps of OpenStack content this time around. I've been involved with the OpenStack project since the start of this year, and am a Nova core reviewer. I have also contributed code to Glance, although most of my code is in Nova. I am also a very active Nova code reviewer. Involvement with Open Source ============================ I released my first open source code in 1999 (a C PDF generation library), and have been hacking on things ever since. OpenStack however is by far the largest Open Source project I've been associated with, and I find that very exciting. I've also written two books -- one on ImageMagick and one on MythTV. Don't buy them, they're hilariously out of date now. What I'd like to contribute =========================== I spent six years at Google working in site reliability including three years scaling mobile search, and think I can make an interesting contribution to OpenStack in the form of encouraging a design direction that works well at scale. Most of my development efforts have been in that domain, and we clearly have more to do to make OpenStack something which is fun for operators. I do think we're in a better state than we were a year ago, and we should thank those who have gotten us this far. There are others working in this space as well, but I think operators deserve a voice on the Technical Committee. The Committee is especially important to people who care about operations because its an opportunity to make good choices before large amounts of code are written. Technical Leadership ==================== I've been the technical lead for various projects over the years, including that mobile search job at Google. Some of those projects were quite high profile, where technical decisions could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The Director role for the conference also involves leading a diverse team of around 20 volunteers, which is much more like herding cats than I'd like to admit. I have also sat on the board of two professional associations in the past, as well as the IT advisory board of a not-for-profit charity group. Conclusion ========== Ops is really important to OpenStack adoption. The Technical Committee is one of the places we need people advocating for operators. However, I should say that I am confident that all the other candidates will do a great job, and the outcome of the election wont change my involvement in the OpenStack project in any way. Thanks for reading this far. Mikal _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
