Hi all, I'd like to announce my candidacy for a seat on the OpenStack Technical Committee.
- General background - I have over 15 years of experience designing and building distributed systems. I am currently a Senior Software Developer at Rackspace, where I have been for a 2 and a half years now. Most of my time at Rackspace has been spent working on OpenStack as both a developer and a technical leader. My first week at Rackspace was spent at the very first OpenStack Design Summit in Austin where the project was announced. Prior to working at Rackspace, I held various roles over 14 years at Concentric Network Corporation/XO Communications including Senior Software Architect and eventually Director of Engineering. My main focus there was on an award winning web/email hosting platform which we'd built to be extremely scalable and fault tolerant. While my name is not on this patent, I was heavily involved with the development and design that led to US6611861. - Why am I interested? - I have strong feelings for OpenStack and I want to help take it to the next level. I have a lot of technical knowledge and experience building scalable distributed systems. During most of my past experience, I haven't had the luxury of having access to a lot extremely fast hardware, so it's been important to make software as performant as possible. I've also had to put lots of effort into having 0 downtime, meaning code can be updated seamlessly without dropping clients. I've also been one to lead host and software security efforts so I have a lot of strong feelings in this area. I am extremely interested in using this experience to make OpenStack perform well, be secure, be more easily pluggable, and easy to use! - OpenStack contributions - As I mentioned above, I was at the very first design summit, so I've been involved with the project from the beginning. I started the initial work for nova-scheduler shortly after the project was opened. I also implemented the RPC support for kombu, making sure to properly support reconnecting and so forth which didn't work quite so well with the carrot code. I've contributed a number of improvements designed to make nova-api more performant. I've worked on the filter scheduler as well as designing and implementing the first version of the Zones replacement that we named 'Cells'. I'm currently looking forward to restructuring our use of DB API to better support upgrades w/ schema changes as well as committing an alternative DB backend implementation for mysql that significantly reduces how long we block on DB API calls compared to sqlalchemy. - Summary - I feel my years of experience contributing to and leading large scale technical projects along with my knowledge of the OpenStack projects will provide a good foundation for technical leadership. Thanks, - Chris _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
