OpenStack Kilo Design Summit

After working on scalability in computing at particle physics experiments like ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider, Tom led the creation of a cloud designed for the publicly-funded research sector in Australia.It currently serves thousands of researchers directly, using many datacentres over a broad geographical area. | Following working as a cloud architecture consultant and team lead for several years, Tom is currently harnessing his passion... Read More →

Mike is a senior systems engineer at Go Daddy, building and managing OpenStack cloud infrastructure and supporting systems.  He thrives on enabling others to work faster and better by using the cloud.  Mike lives in Colorado with his wife and three children, and enjoys hiking (summer) and snowshoeing (winter.)  Follow Mike on Twitter @misterdorm, or on his blog, http://dorm.org

Wade Lewis is an Openstack Dedicated Architect for Rackspace Private Cloud. He's been a Racker for 12 years and has been involved with large scale Openstack clouds since Folsom. His current projects involve working with financial and medical institutions that are migrating legacy workloads to the cloud. 

Kris Lindgren is an operator of Go Daddy's public and private cloud.  He has been using openstack in a production capactiy since Havana.  He loves enabling others to work faster and better by using the cloud and other self-service portals.  He is also a core dev on the anvil project ( https://github.com/stackforge/anvil ), which allows deployers to package upstream openstack + their local patchsets into system level packages or virtual... Read More →

Jason has been in the IT industry for over 10 years.  He has often overcome challenging problems with innovative, creative solutions. Faced with difficult challenges such as technology adoption, integration of high performance clusters, and systems deployment automation, Jason has led the pack on implementing new technologies and teaching best practices. | | Jason has spent the better part of his career managing dedicated servers through... Read More →

Joe currently lives in Alberta, Canada, building and automating clouds for Cybera. Joe is also a co-author of the OpenStack Operations Guide and is an active member of the OpenStack Operators community.