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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
> 
> 
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