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<h1>Monty Taylor</h1>
<ul class="lead">
<li>+1 972 979 5079</li>
<li>+1 206 471 3749</li>
<li>mordred@inaugust.com</li>
<li><a href="https://matrix.to/#/@mordred:inaugust.com">@mordred:inaugust.com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://matrix.to/#/@mordred:waterwanders.com">@mordred:waterwanders.com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://keybase.io/mordred">keybase.io/mordred</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<span class="titletitle">Work History</span>
</h3>
<div class="techskills">
<div class="job">
<p>Oracle</p>
<p class="jobtitle">
Architect, OCI Substrate: Remote (New Orleans, LA)</p>
Architect, OCI Substrate: Seattle, WA</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">2020-present</p>
<ul>
<li>Architect responsible for the Substrate, the underlying infrastructure
on top of which OCI is deployed.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Drove multiple programs related to shrinking a cloud designed for
hyperscale into ever smaller physical footprints.</li>
<li>Coordinated activities on behalf of the Compute Organization related
to modernizing deployment automation.</li>
<li>Drove design of a containerized reworking of the Substrate.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="techskills">
OpenStack is one of the fastest-growing open-source communities in the world.
Its forecast to have a global market revenue of $5.63 billion USD in 2020 and $6.73 billion USD in 2021.
As one of the project founders I've worn enumerable hats, including but not
As one of the project founders I wore enumerable hats, including but not
limited to working in leadership positions for several of the corporations
that are involved in the 501(c)6 non-profit Foundation that acts as caretaker
of the project.
involved in the 501(c)6 non-profit Foundation that acts as caretaker of the project,
in technical leadership positions within the open source project,
and on the Board of Directors of the Foundation.
</div>
<div class="job">
<p>Red Hat</p>
<p class="jobtitle">
Member of Technical Staff, Office of the CTO: Remote (Dallas, TX / New Orleans, LA)</p>
Member of Technical Staff, Office of the CTO: Remote</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">2016-2020</p>
<ul>
<li>Drove strategy related to CI/CD.</li>
<li>Led development team focused on developing Zuul and sharing in the SRE
responsibilities for OpenDev.</li>
<li>Drove strategy related to CI/CD for the Ansible ecosystem.</li>
<li>Led development team focused on developing Zuul.</li>
<li>Participated in the SRE responsibilities for OpenDev.</li>
<li>Coordinated with Ansible organization on product related efforts around
Zuul.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="job">
<p>IBM</p>
<p class="jobtitle">Distinguished Engineer / Director of Engineering: Remote (New York, NY / Dallas, TX)</p>
<p class="jobtitle">Distinguished Engineer / Director of Engineering</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">2015-2016</p>
<ul>
<li>Led OpenStack Innovation team focused on CI/CD and scaling of
OpenStack for Public Cloud.</li>
<li>Led development team focused on developing Zuul.</li>
<li>Participated in the SRE responsibilities for OpenDev.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p>Hewlett-Packard</p>
<p class="jobtitle">
Distinguished Technologist / Director of Engineering: Remote (New York, NY / Palo Alto, CA)</p>
Distinguished Technologist / Director of Engineering</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">2011-2015</p>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Led teams focused on CI and CD of OpenStack for both Public and
<li>Led teams focused on CI and CD of OpenStack for both Public and
Private cloud products</li>
<li>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.
<li>Grew two separate teams in parallel, one internal and one external.
Each went from 2 to ~50 over a two year period.</li>
<li>Drove partnerships and customer engagements related to OpenStack
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<li>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.</li>
<li>Oversaw the creation of Ironic and Bifrost.</li>
<li>Oversaw the creation of Zuul</li>
<li>Oversaw the creation of Zuul.</li>
<li>Oversaw the stabalization of Keystone.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p>Rackspace Cloud</p>
<p class="jobtitle">System Architect: Remote (Seattle, WA / New York, NY)</p>
<p class="jobtitle">System Architect: Remote</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">2010-2011</p>
<ul>
<li>Helped start the OpenStack project (see creation line on
<a href='https://launchpad.net/openstack'>
https://launchpad.net/openstack</a>).</li>
<li>Created a working development process, code review system and
instituted the concept of "gated commits" where code only landed if
tests passed and where no develper had direct commit access.</li>
https://launchpad.net/openstack</a>, it's a fun bit of history).</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Founded the SRE function responsible for running all of the tooling and
systems needed to support the OpenStack project.</li>
<li>Laid ground work for scaling the developer ecosystem from ~40
developers to the current average of 2500 in any given six month
developers to this high water mark of 2500 in any given six month
period.</li>
<li>Coordinated with varying and competing interests from teams at
Rackspace, NASA and Canonical.</li>
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<p class="jobskillslist">2009-2011</p>
<ul>
<li>Member of collaborative theatre ensemble focused on
consensus-oriented new work generation.</li>
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.</li>
<li>Designed and implemented electrical refit of company
space to create a general purpose performance venue.</li>
</ul>
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</h3>
<div class="techskills">
Working at MySQL was the first time I was part of the largest
Open Source acquisition in history. As the world's most popular
Working at MySQL was the first (but not last) time I was part of
the largest Open Source acquisition in history. As the world's most popular
Open Source database, our clients included basically everyone.
After the Sun acquisition we were allowed to fork the primary
product and work on re-thinking the internals.
product and work on re-thinking the internals, because Sun.
</div>
<div class="job">
<p>Rackspace</p>
<p class="jobtitle">System Architect: Remote (Seattle, WA / New York, NY)</p>
<p class="jobtitle">System Architect: Remote</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">C++, Python, Drizzle, Linux, OSX, Solaris</p>
<ul>
<li>Core developer on <a href="http://launchpad.net/drizzle">Drizzle</a>:
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<p class="jobtitle">Founder: Seattle, WA</p>
<ul>
<li>Imported high quality Brazilian Cachaça.</li>
<li>Product won double-gold at the 2011 San Francisco International Spirits Competition.</li>
<li>Won double-gold at the 2011 San Francisco International Spirits Competition.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p>StageFiles</p>
<p class="jobtitle">Founder, Partner: Remote (Dallas, TX / Seattle, WA)</p>
<p class="jobtitle">Founder / Partner: Remote</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">Plone, Python, mod_python, TurboGears, Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux</p>
<ul>
<li>Started, ran and managed company with partner.</li>
<li>Started, ran and managed company.</li>
<li>Designed and developed a web-based portfolio system for
Theatrical Design.</li>
</ul>
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<p class="jobtitle">Founder, CEO</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">Python, Zope, elisp, LaTeX, exim, ZODB, GTK, Glade, Cyrus, SASL,
SquirrelMail, Apache,
Debian GNU/Linux, Debian Packaging FreeBSD</p>
Debian GNU/Linux, Debian Packaging</p>
<ul>
<li>Started and managed small business concerns, including hiring, payroll and billing.</li>
<li>Designed an extensible theatrical lighting control system.</li>
<li>Wrote a play typesetting program.</li>
<li>Co-developed email and web hosting system.</li>
<li>Authored an RFP response with Zope Corp. for an online testing system.</li>
<li>Wrote a typesetting system for theatre scripts.</li>
<li>Co-developed automated email and web hosting system.</li>
<em>Clients included:</em>
<div class="job">
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<p class="jobskillslist">C#, Python, LaTeX, Python, Subversion,
Apache2, Tomcat, Solaris, Windows XP</p>
<ul>
<li>Developed reporting solution for Loan Prepayment Modeling.</li>
<li>Developed LaTeX based reporting solution for Loan Prepayment Modeling. Yes, someone paid me to work on LaTeX!</li>
<li>Provided system support including administration and system design.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<p>Monster.com: Boston, MA</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">Zope, Python, DTML, C#, SQL Server, Perforce, Windows 2000</p>
<ul>
<li>Took over a Zope-based system for managing Job Content written by external contractors who had left.</li>
<li>Single point of contact for Zope related issues for the organization.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p>Tahinis Mediterranean Bistro: Bar Harbor, ME</p>
<p>Tahinis Mediterranean Bistro, Bar Harbor, ME: Remote</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">Plone, Python, Javascript, CSS, Debian GNU/Linux</p>
<ul>
<li>Created an Online menu system for restaurants.</li>
<li>Completely missed the now obvious opportunity to have become Seamless or DoorDash.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p>North Carolina State University: Raleigh, NC</p>
<p>North Carolina State University: Remote</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">Zope, Python, mod-perl, Javascript, CSS, Apache,
Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris</p>
<ul>
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<p>Cox Interactive Media: Atlanta, GA</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">Zope, Python, Oracle, PL/SQL, Java, Solaris</p>
<ul>
<li>Implemented a Content Management System.</li>
<li>Implemented a Content Management System in a combination of Zope and Java Stored Procedures.</li>
<li>Marvelled at the fact that it took 3 solid days to install Oracle. sssh, don't let Oracle hear me say that!</li>
</ul>
</div>
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Perl, MySQL, Apache, Zope, Python, RedHat GNU/Linux, Solaris, MacOS X</p>
<ul>
<li>Led development efforts for web-based strategic intelligence product.</li>
<li>Designed and developed Internet news-feed reading and processing system.</li>
<li>Designed and developed Internet news-feed reading and processing system.
20 years before AI/ML. As a set of Perl scripts. Because 1999.</li>
<li>Architected internal company systems for messaging and Intranet.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h3 class="resumesection">
<span class="titletitle">Pre-history</span>
<span class="titletitle">Pre-Y2K Enterprise</span>
<span class="titledate">1995-1999</span>
</h3>
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<div class="job">
<p>Branch Bank and Trust</p>
<p class="jobtitle">Enterprise Management Systems Analyst: Wilson, NC</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">Tivoli, Perl, ksh, AIX, Windows</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">Tivoli, Perl, ksh, AIX, Windows, Samba</p>
<ul>
<li>Wrote and maintained Perl and shell scripts for Tivoli system
automation.</li>
<li>Used Samba to automate bootstrapping of Tivoli Endpoind systems
in remote bank branch locations on Windows workstations from an AIX box.
If you want a really fun story, ask me about this one.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul>
<li>Wrote code to update and manage Data Warehouse Common Dimensions
tables.</li>
<li>Used Perl Typeglobs that I could not possibly read today to build
a SQL generation system. One should never use Typeglobs, except for
the times when one should. Although I cannot justify it today, I
was able to successfully defend the use to Mark-Jason Dominus on the
first Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, so I feel confident today that 1998
me wasn't completely off his rocker.</li>
<li>Understood enough Perl to know how to use Typeglobs.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<p class="jobskillslist">Perl, ksh, Sybase, T-SQL, AIX</p>
<ul>
<li>Administered systems and performed DBA tasks supporting a 24x7
manufacturing and shipping environment.</li>
manufacturing and candy shipping environment.</li>
<li>Implemented a full GNU distribution in SMIT packages on to of AIX.</li>
<li>Implemented a fully automated provisioning system for installing
and managing a fleet of AIX systems in remote warehouse and factory
locations. Today you might consider this config managment.</li>
<li>Maintained an inherited barcode scanning system that involved RF
scanner guns running DOS, that telnetted to an AIX box running a
curses menu application that fed data into a 4G database running on
a Windows NT server. Remotely.</li>
<li>Was promised unlimited candy during interview, only to arrive on
first day to discover that the floor of geeks had eaten too much
candy and the policy had been revoked.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<p class="jobtitle">UNIX Admin/Support</p>
<p class="jobskillslist">AIX, C, Framemaker SDK, ksh</p>
<ul>
<li>Provided system and user support for Desktop AIX systems.</li>
<li>Provided system and user support for Desktop AIX systems used
by the tech writing team.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<p class="jobskillslist">MVS, AIX, C, ksh</p>
<ul>
<li>Provided system administration and AIX support for the TCP Performance Testing
on MVS</li>
on MVS.</li>
</ul>
</div>