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 Principal Engineer at Rackspace, where I have been for a little over 3 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? - This is my 3rd time running and I don't want to be considered a failure! But seriously, as I have mentioned in the past, I have strong feelings for OpenStack and I want to help as much as possible to take it to the next level. I have a lot of technical knowledge and experience building scalable distributed systems. I would like to use this knowledge for good, not evil. - 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'. And most recently, I was involved in the design and implementation of the unified objects code in nova. During Icehouse, I'm hoping to focus on performance and stabilization while also helping to finish objects conversion. - 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 _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev