Monty Taylor Explained

Monty Taylor
Birth Date:12 August 1975
Birth Place:Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Occupation:Software developer
Alma Mater:Abilene Christian University
Employer:Oracle Corporation
Education:B.F.A. Theatre (Directing)
Known For:OpenStack, Drizzle, Mysql

Monty Taylor (born 12 August 1975) is a free software[1] hacker, theatre director and lighting designer. He has been named one of the mostimportant people in cloud computing[2] and was featured by Wiredas part of 'The New Hackers'.[3]

Free software

MySQL

Monty was a Senior Consultant at MySQL AB.[4] While therehe was a specialist in High Availability and MySQL Cluster which led tothe creation of NDB-connector,[5] a set of bindings to theunderlying NDB API of MySQL Cluster.

After MySQL was acquired by Sun, Monty joined the team working on Drizzle.[6] whichsubsequently moved to Rackspace after the Oracle acquisition of Sun.[7]

OpenStack

While at Rackspace, Monty helped to launch the OpenStack project.[8] He was responsible for the original creation of OpenStack's "Gating" system[9] and is the founder and past PTL of the OpenStack Infra project.[10] He is one of the top overall contributors to OpenStack over the history of the project.[11]

Monty serves as an Individual Member on the OpenStack Foundation board of directors[12] as well as the OpenStack Technical Committee[13]

In 2011, Monty moved from Rackspace to HP. There he formed a team thatdeveloped TripleO project for deploying OpenStack[14] which went on to become thebasis for the first release of HP's Helion OpenStack[15] and Red Hat's RDO[16]

In 2013, Monty was honored by the Brazilian Government for his contributions toFree Software.[17] [18]

In 2015, Monty moved to IBM[19] [20] to lead the OpenStackInnovation team as a Distinguished Engineer.

From 2016 to 2020, Monty was a Member of Technical Staff at Red Hat[21] [22] working on CI with Zuul and Ansible.

Theatre

Monty started his Theatre career as a stagehand at Stewart Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina[23] while enrolled at North Carolina State University.

Monty later transferred to Abilene Christian University where he got a BFA in Theatre with a focus on directing. While there, he served aslighting designer and technical director for ACU's Sing Song event.[24] [25] He continued his education in the MFA program at CalArts, but left and moved to Seattle in 2005.

Monty directed a mildly controversial adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V calledKing Henry for Ghostlight Theatricals.[26] [27] He was also a frequent collaborator at Taproot Theatre in Seattle,[28] [29] Penfold Theatre in Austin[30] [31] and with The Bengsons on their rock opera Hundred Days in Seattle, New York and San Francisco.[32] In celebration of the first day of legal same-sex marriage in the State of Washington, Monty lit Seattle's City Hall.[33]

Monty is an associate artist with Seattle's The Satori Group.[34] He designed the lighting for all of Satori's productions from2009–2011. During that time, The Satori Group was runner up for the Seattle Times' "Friskiest FringeEstablishment" award in 2009,[35] and won the "Avant-garde Afterglow" award for their productionof and adaptation of George Saunders' short story "Winky".[36]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lemmings, Think Different and Why Free Software is Still Important | SCALE 13x . Socallinuxexpo.org . 2015-02-21 . 2016-05-11.
  2. Web site: The 39 Most Important People in Cloud Computing . Businessinsider.com. 2016-05-11.
  3. Why Open Source Software Is Like Burning Man (Only Better) . WIRED . 2013-04-29 . 2016-05-11. Metz . Cade .
  4. Web site: Using oprofile with the MySQL Server | James' World . Jebriggs.com . 2009-04-29 . 2016-05-11.
  5. Web site: Writing Efficient Java Applications for MySQL Cluster Using NDB/J : MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, April 20 - 23, 2009, Santa Clara, CA . Conferences.oreilly.com . 2016-05-11.
  6. Web site: TXLF - Drizzle: A Database Designed for Operations : Monty Taylor : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive . Archive.org . 2016-05-11.
  7. Web site: Rodrigues . Savio . Sun Drizzle team members move to Rackspace . InfoWorld . 2010-03-12 . 2016-05-11.
  8. Web site: OpenStack in Launchpad . Launchpad.net . July 6, 2010 . 2016-05-11.
  9. Web site: Scaling OpenStack Development with Git, Gerrit, and Jenkins . Docs.openstack.org . 2003-11-01 . 2016-05-11.
  10. Web site: OpenStack TL Interview: Monty Taylor, OpenStack CI Project . Mirantis.com . May 20, 2013 . 2016-05-11.
  11. Web site: OpenStack community contribution in all releases . Stackalytics . 2016-05-11.
  12. Web site: Board of Directors » OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software . Openstack.org . 2016-05-11.
  13. Web site: Technical Committee » OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software . Openstack.org . 2015-03-17 . 2016-05-11.
  14. s . Welcome to the Mind-Bending World of Cloud-on-Cloud Computing . WIRED . 2013-04-01 . 2016-05-11.
  15. Web site: Havrila . Peter . Introduction and LAB tutorial of HP Helion Community Edition, the OpenStack based "cloud" system that can give you a personal cloud! . Networkgeekstuff.com . June 10, 2014 . 2016-05-11.
  16. Web site: HOWTO: OpenStack Deployment using TripleO and the Red Hat OpenStack Director . Keith Tenzer . 2015-10-14 . 2016-05-11.
  17. Web site: Consegi receives big names — consegi . 2013.consegi.gov.br . 2016-05-11.
  18. Web site: Consegi realiza homenagens — consegi . pt. 2013.consegi.gov.br . 2013-07-25 . 2016-05-11.
  19. Web site: A Coup for Big Blue | Blue Box . Blueboxcloud.com . 2015-08-04 . 2016-05-11.
  20. Web site: Monty. Taylor . The Next Step . Inaugust.com . 2016-05-11.
  21. https://www.linkedin.com/in/montytaylor/
  22. Web site: Monty Taylor - OpenStack Infrastructure.
  23. Web site: Google Groups . Groups.google.com . 2016-05-11.
  24. Web site: Technical staff works behind the scenes: Students prepare Sing Song set | Optimist . Acuoptimist.com . 2016-05-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160604045412/http://www.acuoptimist.com/2003/02/technical-staff-works-behind-the-scenes-students-prepare-sing-song-set/ . June 4, 2016 . dead .
  25. Web site: The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 29, Ed. 1, Friday, January 17, 2003, Sequence: 4 | The Portal to Texas History . Texashistory.unt.edu . 2003-01-17 . 2016-05-11.
  26. Web site: Adcock . Joe . On Stage: 'Pippin' is all flash and razzmatazz . Seattlepi.com . 2006-05-08 . 2016-05-11.
  27. Web site: Nelson . Sean . On Stage - Theater . The Stranger . 2006-05-11 . 2016-05-11.
  28. News: Theater review | Taproot company knows way around Jules Verne's "World" . . 2009-05-27 . 2016-05-11.
  29. News: Theater Review: A Soothing and Sunny "Enchanted April" . . 2009-10-06 . 2016-05-11.
  30. Web site: Cate. Blouke . Review: Penfold Theatre's "Red" . Austin360.com . 2016-05-11.
  31. News: Review: I Love You Because - Arts . . 2011-06-24 . 2016-05-11.
  32. Web site: 100 Days prospectus 2014 by Ulla . Issuu.com . January 8, 2014 . 2016-05-11.
  33. Web site: Seattle City Hall becomes state's same-sex marriage capital . Seattlepi.com . 2012-12-09 . 2016-05-11.
  34. Web site: Associate Artists . The Satori Group . 2016-05-11.
  35. News: Drum roll! The Footlight Awards for excellence in local theater . . 2016-05-11.
  36. News: Best of 2010 in Seattle-area theater: the Footlight Awards . . 2011-01-01 . 2016-05-11.

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