Monty Taylor

Oracle

Architect, OCI Substrate: Seattle, WA

2020-present

• Architect responsible for the Substrate, the underlying infrastructure on top of which OCI is deployed.
• Designed and implemented both processes and systems for managing the intersection of the capacity needed by service teams and the hardware BOM ordered for standing up new regions.
• Drove multiple programs related to shrinking a cloud designed for hyperscale into ever smaller physical footprints.
• Coordinated activities on behalf of the Compute Organization related to modernizing deployment automation.

Red Hat

Member of Technical Staff, Office of the CTO: Remote

2016-2020

• Drove strategy related to CI/CD for the Ansible ecosystem.
• Led development team focused on developing Zuul.
• Participated in the SRE responsibilities for OpenDev.
• Coordinated with Ansible organization on product related efforts around Zuul.

IBM

Distinguished Engineer / Director of Engineering

2015-2016

• Led OpenStack Innovation team focused on CI/CD and scaling of OpenStack for Public Cloud.
• Led development team focused on developing Zuul.
• Participated in the SRE responsibilities for OpenDev.

Hewlett-Packard

Distinguished Technologist / Director of Engineering

2011-2015

• Staffed and led the OpenDev SRE team. Grew community consensus of the need for broader staffing and succeeded in achieving divestiture of the team from being a single-company team.
• Led teams focused on CI and CD of OpenStack for both Public and Private cloud products
• Managed coopetition between hundreds of competing and collaborating companies, both directly in the form of influence and interpersonal relationships, and through implementation of systems to ensure level playing fields.
• Grew two separate teams in parallel, one internal and one external. Each went from 2 to ~50 over a two year period.
• Drove partnerships and customer engagements related to OpenStack externally. Represented OpenStack internally to engineering organizations across Business Units.
• Staffed for and achieved technical leadership and recognition for HP in OpenStack. Based on C-Suite requests housed over half of the OpenStack Technical Committee and several Projet Team Leads within my team. Drove HP to be the top overall contributor to OpenStack.
• Oversaw the creation of TripleO, which was the basis of HP Helion and is now the foundation of Red Hat's RHSOP OpenStack product line.
• Oversaw the creation of Ironic and Bifrost.
• Oversaw the creation of Zuul.
• Oversaw the stabalization of Keystone.

Rackspace Cloud

System Architect: Remote

2010-2011

• Helped start the OpenStack project (see creation line on https://launchpad.net/openstack, it's a fun bit of history).
• Designed and implemented the development process and the systems to support it. Instituted the concept of "gated commits" where code only landed if if was code reviewed and all automated tests passed. Under this system, from Day Zero of the project, no developer had, or has ever had, direct push access.
• Founded the SRE function responsible for running all of the tooling and systems needed to support the OpenStack project.
• Laid ground work for scaling the developer ecosystem from ~40 developers to this high water mark of 2500 in any given six month period.
• Coordinated with varying and competing interests from teams at Rackspace, NASA and Canonical.

OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors

Individual Member

2012-2016,2018-2020

• Oversaw business, legal, product and branding concerns representing the Individual Members of the Foundation.

OpenDev

Founder, SRE, Core Team Member

2010-present

• Founded OpenDev, which started as the OpenStack Infrastructure team. Responsible for development, operation and scaling of all of the support systems for the development of the OpenStack project.
• Provided initial product management. Expanded that role to be a collaboratively driven group product vision.
• Built and operated world's largest Open Source CI infrastructure, supporting 2500 developers world wide, landing 10k changes per month and consuming approximately 20k cloud servers per day.
• Oversaw the creation of Zuul, Nodepool, Storyboard, git-review, pbr, elastic-recheck and countless other systems
• Wrote shade library, which became openstacksdk, to drive multi-cloud interoperability and orchestration issues found in production.
• Ansible core contributor and owner of OpenStack and Puppet modules

Zuul

Co-founder, Maintainer

2012-present

• Co-founder of Zuul, a project gating system.
• Oversaw product development and project growth, including corporate resource sponsorship.
• Provided technical marketing worldwide via conference interactions.

Python Software Foundation

Fellow

2012-present

OpenStack Technical Committee Member

2012-2017

• Oversaw technical governance of the OpenStack project.
• Grew project and organization from 50 to 2500 contributors.

OpenStack Project Policy Board Member

2011-2012

• Oversaw overall governance of OpenStack in the days before the Foundation was established.

Nola Kitten Foster

Founder, Vice-President, Secretary: New Orleans, LA

2020-present

• Founded a non-profit New Orleans based foster nursery for young kittens. Work with local animal shelters as well as TNR programs.

NYU

Adjunct Professor, ITP: New York, NY

2016

• Taught course on "Lighting Without the Board" - focusing on custom programmatic control of lighting and overview of lighting design.
• Guest lectures on Privacy in the Digitial Age.

Camp Pot Luck

Founder, General Manager

2010-2014

• Started and ran a Burning Man Theme Camp focused on feeding people.
• Provided dinners for roughly 150 people per day.
• Managed budget and infrastructure needs, such as fresh and grey water, electrical, structural, kitchen creation, plumbing and camp membership.

The Satori Group

Company Member

2009-2011

• Member of collaborative theatre ensemble focused on consensus-oriented new work generation. If this seems irrelevant on a tech resume, please note the time period, and then the time period where we founded OpenStack on a system of leaderless group consensus.
• Designed and implemented electrical refit of company space to create a general purpose performance venue.

Rackspace

System Architect: Remote

C++, Python, Drizzle, Linux, OSX, Solaris

• Core developer on Drizzle: a modern fork of MySQL for the Cloud
• Wrangled Drizzle build and plugin sub-systems.
• Managed and owned Drizzle coding standards and C++ standardization.
• Authored pandora-build - A set of simple and robust autotools macros.
• Worked on Bazaar and Rackspace Cloud plugins for Hudson

Sun Microsystems

Staff Engineer: Remote (Seattle, WA)

C++, Drizzle, MySQL, Linux, OSX, Solaris

• Core developer on Drizzle: a modern fork of MySQL for the Cloud
• Wrangled Drizzle build and plugin sub-systems.
• Managed and owned Drizzle coding standards and C++ standardization.
• Drizzle "Captain" - primary community code liason.
• Authored pandora-build - A set of simple and robust autotools macros.
• Authored drizzle-interface - Bindings to libdrizzle.
• Authored gearman-interface - Bindings to libgearman.

MySQL

Senior Consultant: Remote (Seattle, WA / Stockholm, Sweden)

MySQL, MySQL Cluster, Heartbeat, DRBD, Linux, C++, C#, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby

• Solutions Architect for top 10 web properties, telcos and gaming companies.
• Expert in High Availability and Clustering Solutions.
• Authored NDB/Bindings - Wrappers for MySQL Cluster NDB API in Java, Python, Ruby, C#, Perl and Lua.
• Member of the MySQL Debian Packaging team.
• Technical owner of MySQL/Linbit relationship related to DRBD.

Import Brasileira, LLC

Founder: Seattle, WA

• Imported high quality Brazilian Cachaça.
• Won double-gold at the 2011 San Francisco International Spirits Competition.

StageFiles

Founder / Partner: Remote

Plone, Python, mod_python, TurboGears, Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux

• Started, ran and managed company.
• Designed and developed a web-based portfolio system for Theatrical Design.

In August Productions

Founder, CEO

Python, Zope, elisp, LaTeX, exim, ZODB, GTK, Glade, Cyrus, SASL, SquirrelMail, Apache, Debian GNU/Linux, Debian Packaging

• Started and managed small business concerns, including hiring, payroll and billing.
• Designed an extensible theatrical lighting control system.
• Wrote a typesetting system for theatre scripts.
• Co-developed automated email and web hosting system.
Clients included:

Washington Mutual: Seattle, WA

C#, Python, LaTeX, Python, Subversion, Apache2, Tomcat, Solaris, Windows XP

• Developed LaTeX based reporting solution for Loan Prepayment Modeling. Yes, someone paid me to work on LaTeX!
• Provided system support including administration and system design.

Monster.com: Boston, MA

Zope, Python, DTML, C#, SQL Server, Perforce, Windows 2000

• Took over a Zope-based system for managing Job Content written by external contractors who had left.
• Single point of contact for Zope related issues for the organization.

Tahinis Mediterranean Bistro, Bar Harbor, ME: Remote

Plone, Python, Javascript, CSS, Debian GNU/Linux

• Created an Online menu system for restaurants.
• Completely missed the now obvious opportunity to have become Seamless or DoorDash.

North Carolina State University: Remote

Zope, Python, mod-perl, Javascript, CSS, Apache, Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris

• Created a system to help students write better lab reports.
• Created a system to protect copywritten works used in course materials.
• Worked on web-based system to translate Western Characters into Hindi.

Cox Interactive Media: Atlanta, GA

Zope, Python, Oracle, PL/SQL, Java, Solaris

• Implemented a Content Management System in a combination of Zope and Java Stored Procedures.
• Marvelled at the fact that it took 3 solid days to install Oracle. sssh, don't let Oracle hear me say that!

Thingamy: Oslo, Norway

Python

• Wrote a tool to migrate data from legacy database to ZODB.

Alexander Consulting: London, England

Zope

• Provided solution assessment for proposed CRM System.

iuveno: Ingolstadt, Germany

Zope, Python, LDAP, IMAP, SuSE GNU/Linux, ZEO

• Worked on a web-based CRM system that interfaced Palm Pilots.

MTNI: Atlanta, GA

Python

• Developed a Python library implementation of RFC 1861 - SNPP.

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