Individual Member Profile
Tony Breeds
I'm an openstack Developer and PTL. My aim is to make OpenStack better in whichever ways I can.
- Okestro - From 2025-11-03 (Current)
- Unaffiliated - From 2025-07-12 (Current)
- RedHat - From 2017-06-05 To 2025-07-11
- Rackspace - From 2014-09-01 To 2017-04-20
- IBM - From 2007-01-01 To 2014-09-01
- The Nathanial Perez Prize for Behind-the-Scenes efforts - Austin 2016
- Establishing multiple identities for a single you with OpenDev and Keycloak
- How do we end the Extended Maintenance "experiment"?
- Requirements - Project Update
- Consumption models for service projects
- Extended Maintenance part I: past, present and future
- Stable Branch Maintenance - Project Update
- Infra/Stable - Project Onboarding
- What do operators want from the stable policy?
Tony is a candidate in the January 2026 Board Elections .
Read the Q&A below and see if you want to Nominate Tony in this election.
I am a contributor to more than 150 OpenInfra repositories across 3 top level projects. I have also served as PTL for 3 OpenStack project teams. Currently I am consulting at OKESTRO and helping to shape Open source contributions and culture there. I am most proud of my many smaller contributions to the health of OpenStack undertaking tasks to ease the day to day for developers and building on the great work of the earlier developers.
I have never served on the board for a non-profit but have previously held the position of treasurer for a non profit in Australia. I am a developer/operator at heart, I am most familiar with OpenStack, having said that as an individual director I look forward to representing developer interests and working with fellow board members to reduce the “gap” between developers, operators and users.
Beyond the legal and oversight roles, it’s clear that the current board has a wealth of representation from OpenStack, particularly within the Individual directors. To ensure the success of the Foundation the board has a strong role in widening that representation to more if not all OpenInfra projects.
One year is simultaneously a long time in technology and a short time in the lifetime of a foundation. Previous boards have set out a plan. The new board needs to see that plan through. The new board needs to understand that plan and continue it. Continue the 10 year vision planning/ideation started in Berlin 2022, and critically continue the work of establishing the OIF inside the LF
Tony has already been nominated by:
- Tony Breeds
- Allison Randal
- Julia Kreger
- Ghanshyam Maan
- Jeremy Stanley
- ChangBo Guo
- Mark Collier
