Joshua Harlow wrote: > Howdy ya'll! > > ==Who am I== > > I'd like to also put myself up for the Technical Committee candidate > position, via one of the seats that are being made available.
Confirmed. > I have been active with OpenStack since ~around~ diablo and have helped > lead the effort to 'marry' OpenStack and Y! in a way that benefits both > the community and Yahoo. > > ==What I have done== > > I have been/am an active contribute to nova, glance, cinder. > - History @ https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:harlowja,n,z > > I have also helped create the following (along with others in the > community): > - https://launchpad.net/anvil (a tool like devstack, that automatically > builds OpenStack code & dependencies into packages) > - https://launchpad.net/taskflow (my active project, that has big > plans/goals) > > I also am a major contributor to: https://launchpad.net/cloud-init > > ==What else I do== > > In my spare time I code more than I should, mountain bike, ski, and rock > climb. > > ==Background and Experience== > > I work at Yahoo! as one of the technical leads on the OpenStack team > where we have been working to get better involved in the OpenStack > community and establishing OpenStack internally. We are focused on scale > (tens of thousands of servers), reliability, security, and making the > best software that is humanly possible (who doesn't want that)! > > A few examples of projects that I have been on: > - Sponsored search stack (~8000 hosts across ~5 datacenters) > - Frontpage stack [www.yahoo.com] (millions of page views, huge scale) > - OpenStack (many users, lots of hypervisors, lots of vms, 4+ datacenters) > > ==What I think I can bring== > > I have been on various engineering teams at Yahoo! for the last 6 years. > I have designed/architected and implemented code that runs on > http://www.yahoo.com, the ad systems, the social network backends. Each > project has required understanding how scale and reliability can be > achieved, so that it’s possible to maximize uptime (thus getting more > customers). > > Currently I have been working on establishing OpenStack in Yahoo! and > making sure Yahoo! keeps on being an active and innovative contributor. > I believe I can help out in scale (how far can eventlet go...), > architectural decisions (more services or less??) and help OpenStack be > as reliable and manageable as possible (taskflow I think has a great > potential for helping here). > > I also believe that we as a community need to continue encouraging the > growth of innovative projects and continue building OpenStack as a > platform that drives the infrastructure of many (if not all) of the > companies in the world (small and big). I believe the TC can help guide > OpenStack into this direction (and continue guiding it) and I hope with > myself on the TC (if voted in) that my unique experiences at Y! (ranging > from deploying OpenStack, supporting it and developing future features > for it) will be useful in guiding the general direction. > > Thanks for taking me into consideration! > > -Josh > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
