Monty Taylor, Distinguished Technologist at HP and Member of the OpenStack Technical Committee and OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors. He leads teams that run the OpenStack Developer Infrastructure, Ironic Bare Metal service and the TripleO project using OpenStack to deploy OpenStack. He is one of the (apparently large number of) OpenStack Founders and currently sits on both the OpenStack Foundation Board and the OpenStack Technical Committee. He has been a Python hacker by choice since 2000, and is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation. Before all of this OpenStack business, he was a core developer on Drizzle, which he came to by way of the company formerly known as MySQL, Inc. Monty's home is in Black Rock City, Nevada, but he spends most of the year in New York.