Individual Member Profile

I participate in development of the Blazar project, which provides Reservation as a Service for OpenStack.

I have been involved with OpenStack for several years, having first deployed and operated OpenStack Havana in early 2014 for the FutureGrid tested. I am now a Senior Technical Lead at StackHPC (https://www.stackhpc.com), a cloud and HPC consultancy based in Bristol. I am currently the project team lead for OpenStack Blazar (Reservation as a Service) for the Train release cycle. I am also involved in the Kolla project, particularly through the Kayobe deliverable for which I am a core reviewer, and participate in the Scientific SIG.

In a previous position at University of Chicago, I was deeply involved in building Chameleon, a configurable experimental environment for large-scale cloud research, its core software stack being made of OpenStack components, including Ironic for bare-metal deployment and Blazar for reservation management.

• StackHPC Ltd - From 2018-07-03 (Current)

I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Bare Metal Provisioning Service (Ironic),Deploys OpenStack in containers using Ansible (Kolla-ansible),Resource reservation service (Blazar),Blazar,Kolla-ansible,Kayobe,Cloudkitty

• Extending Blazar to support preemptible instances and GPU reservation
• Extending Blazar to support preemptible instances and GPU reservation
• CloudKitty - Project Onboarding
• Blazar - Project Onboarding
• CloudKitty Operator Feedback

• The Coral Reef Cloud: Autoscaling, Reservation, and Preemption

• Blazar - Project Update
• Extending Blazar reservations to new resource types

• We Need Clouds to Build Clouds: Developing an Open Cloud Testbed Using OpenStack
• Project Update - Blazar
• Toward Fog, Edge, and NFV Deployments: Evaluating OpenStack WANwide