Monty Taylor
Born (1975-08-12) August 12, 1975
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
EducationB.F.A. Theatre (Directing)
Alma materAbilene Christian University
OccupationSoftware developer
EmployerOracle Corporation
Known forOpenStack, Drizzle, Mysql
Websiteinaugust.com

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

Free software

MySQL

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

After MySQL was acquired by Sun, Monty joined the team working on Drizzle.[6] which subsequently 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 that developed TripleO project for deploying OpenStack[14] which went on to become the basis 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 to Free Software.[17][18]

In 2015, Monty moved to IBM[19][20] to lead the OpenStack Innovation 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 as lighting 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 called King 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 from 2009–2011. During that time, The Satori Group was runner up for the Seattle Times' "Friskiest Fringe Establishment" award in 2009,[35] and won the "Avant-garde Afterglow" award for their production of and adaptation of George Saunders' short story "Winky".[36]

References

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