{"id":5133,"date":"2013-09-19T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2013-09-16T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T21:36:08","slug":"open-mic-spotlight-christopher-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/open-mic-spotlight-christopher-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Mic Spotlight: Christopher Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><em>This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/me-bw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5134\" alt=\"me-bw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/me-bw-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Christopher works for Rackspace on the OpenStack Heat project, focusing on\u00a0autoscaling. I&#8217;ve been contributing to open source software for over\u00a0ten years now, and I love working in Python. I spent a bit of time in\u00a0the game industry, and while it can be fun, I&#8217;m happy to be back\u00a0working on system\/framework-level software, especially open source!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0He\u00a0lives near Dallas, TX. He loves Greenville Ave Pizza, Revolver beer,\u00a0and RPG video games \ud83d\ude42 You can follow him on Twitter @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/radix\">radix<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0What is your go-to beverage or snack while coding?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Usually a gallon jug of water is sitting on my desk. I also run to my\u00a0local indie cafe at least once a day to have a break and drink a\u00a0cortado.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. What is your favorite project that you&#8217;ve contributed code to?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;d have to be Twisted &#8212; it&#8217;s where I cut my teeth on open source\u00a0hacking, and also where I have developed many friendships in the\u00a0community. I don&#8217;t get as much time as I&#8217;d like to contribute to it\u00a0these days, but when I do I&#8217;m in my happy place \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. How did you learn to code? Are you self-taught or did you learn in\u00a0college? On-the-job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Self-taught, with casual mentorship from people in the Twisted\u00a0community (especially Glyph Lefkowitz, Jean-Paul Calderone, and Allen\u00a0Short).<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. How did you first get involved in OpenStack?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I became a contributor to OpenStack recently when Rackspace hired me\u00a0to work on Heat. It&#8217;s been a pleasure getting involved with the Heat\u00a0community and learning a lot of stuff about orchestration that I\u00a0didn&#8217;t previously know. I can&#8217;t wait for everyone to start\u00a0orchestrating their deployments with Heat!<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.\u00a0What are your tips or tricks for surviving jet lag or long conferences?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5mg of Melatonin at 11:00pm (unless I&#8217;m out until 1am at the pub&#8230;).\u00a0Definitely helps me get a good 7-8 hours of sleep even while\u00a0jetlagged!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun.\u00a0 Christopher works for Rackspace on the OpenStack Heat project, focusing&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/open-mic-spotlight-christopher-armstrong\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Open Mic Spotlight: Christopher Armstrong\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474],"tags":[465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}