Individual Speaker Profile

• Cisco Inc - From 2015-03-09 (Current)
• Rackspace - From 2013-07-15 To 2015-03-06
• Mirantis - From 2013-04-15 To 2013-07-15
• Dell - From 2004-09-15 To 2013-04-15

Architecture and development

• Veteran Cloud Architect with significant design and implementation experience at Dell
• MIrantis
• Rackspace and Cisco
• Deep industry knowledge and history from cryptography and telecommunications in Naval Intelligence
• 5 year startup co-founder

I am a husband, father and maker of things. I have lived most of my life in downtown Atlanta, but I now reside on an 11-acre sustainable family farm 1 hour north of the city.

My background includes 25 years of IT experience, several certifications, various IT scar tissue and 2 technical degrees.  I am currently a Cloud Solutions Architect at Cisco and am pursuing my MIS degree at Georgia Tech. I have been working with OpenStack since the Essex release, have attended or spoken at the last 9 OpenStack summits.

I am a veteran technologist with experience ranging from Naval Intelligence, freelance consulting, start-up co-founder, and a decade of professional services with Dell. My focus has been on cloud technology for the last 5 years beginning with Crowbar at Dell in 2011, Fuel at Mirantis, RPC at Rackspace and now Metacloud at Cisco.

I am competent with Ruby, Python, Perl, BASH, and Java, but my greatest strengths are as a cross-discipline infrastructure architect designing and deploying complex OpenStack-based solutions and supporting sales, product and operations teams.

Jason Grimm

http://www.brothergrimm.com

• Cisco: Metacloud – OpenStack for the Enterprise
• BrokenStack: OpenStack Failure Stories

• High-Performance OpenStack for Science and Data Analytics in a Hybrid Cloud Environment

• 201 Walkthrough - Autoscaling OpenStack Natively With Heat, Ceilometer and LBaaS

• Hands-On Heat Tutorial / Turning Up The Heat (Combined)
• Saved By the Bell: Alerting, Logging, and Monitoring OpenStack with Open Source Tools
• From Infrastructure Administrator To Cloud Architect

• High-Performance OpenStack for Science and Data Analytics in a Hybrid Cloud Environment
• 201 Walkthrough - Autoscaling OpenStack Natively With Heat, Ceilometer and LBaaS
• Saved By the Bell: Alerting, Logging, and Monitoring OpenStack with Open Source Tools
• From Infrastructure Administrator To Cloud Architect
• Hands-On Heat Tutorial / Turning Up The Heat (Combined)

• English

https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/summit-videos/presentation/201-walkthrough-autoscaling-openstack-natively-with-heat-ceilometer-and-lbaas