Malini Bhandaru is a Sr. Cloud Architect with the Open source Technology Center, Intel and has been involved with OpenStack for over three years. Her tenure at Intel spans work on cloud and security, fast encryption algorithms, and Xeon platform power and performance. Prior to Intel she worked on speech recognition, remote monitoring and management, and web applications. She has a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst. She lives in the Bay Area and enjoys gardening but lack of rain has been a “damper”!