I confirm that Chris is eligible to run for a seat on the TC. On 03/18/2013 06:11 PM, Chris Behrens wrote: > > 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 Senior Software Developer at Rackspace, > where I have been for a 2 and a half 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? - > > I have strong feelings for OpenStack and I want to help take it to > the next level. I have a lot of technical knowledge and experience > building scalable distributed systems. > > During most of my past experience, I haven't had the luxury of having > access to a lot extremely fast hardware, so it's been important to > make software as performant as possible. I've also had to put lots of > effort into having 0 downtime, meaning code can be updated seamlessly > without dropping clients. I've also been one to lead host and software > security efforts so I have a lot of strong feelings in this area. > > I am extremely interested in using this experience to make OpenStack > perform well, be secure, be more easily pluggable, and easy to use! > > - 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'. > > I'm currently looking forward to restructuring our use of DB API to better > support upgrades w/ schema changes as well as committing an alternative > DB backend implementation for mysql that significantly reduces how long > we block on DB API calls compared to sqlalchemy. > > - 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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