Monty Taylor | |
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Born | |
Education | B.F.A. Theatre (Directing) |
Alma mater | Abilene Christian University |
Occupation | Software developer |
Employer | Oracle Corporation |
Known for | OpenStack, Drizzle, Mysql |
Website | inaugust |
Monty Taylor (born 12 August 1975) is a free software[1] hacker, theatre director and lighting designer. He has been named one of the most important people in cloud computing[2] and was featured by Wired as part of 'The New Hackers'.[3]
Monty was a Senior Consultant at MySQL AB.[4] While there he was a specialist in High Availability and MySQL Cluster which led to the creation of NDB-connector,[5] a set of bindings to the underlying NDB API of MySQL Cluster.
After MySQL was acquired by Sun, Monty joined the team working on Drizzle.[6] which subsequently moved to Rackspace after the Oracle acquisition of Sun.[7]
While at Rackspace, Monty helped to launch the OpenStack project.[8] He was responsible for the original creation of OpenStack's "Gating" system[9] and is the founder and past PTL of the OpenStack Infra project.[10] He is one of the top overall contributors to OpenStack over the history of the project.[11]
Monty serves as an Individual Member on the OpenStack Foundation board of directors[12] as well as the OpenStack Technical Committee[13]
In 2011, Monty moved from Rackspace to HP. There he formed a team that developed TripleO project for deploying OpenStack[14] which went on to become the basis for the first release of HP's Helion OpenStack[15] and Red Hat's RDO[16]
In 2013, Monty was honored by the Brazilian Government for his contributions to Free Software.[17][18]
In 2015, Monty moved to IBM[19][20] to lead the OpenStack Innovation team as a Distinguished Engineer.
From 2016 to 2020, Monty was a Member of Technical Staff at Red Hat[21][22] working on CI with Zuul and Ansible.
Monty started his Theatre career as a stagehand at Stewart Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina[23] while enrolled at North Carolina State University.
Monty later transferred to Abilene Christian University where he got a BFA in Theatre with a focus on directing. While there, he served as lighting designer and technical director for ACU's Sing Song event.[24] [25] He continued his education in the MFA program at CalArts, but left and moved to Seattle in 2005.
Monty directed a mildly controversial adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V called King Henry for Ghostlight Theatricals.[26][27] He was also a frequent collaborator at Taproot Theatre in Seattle,[28] [29] Penfold Theatre in Austin[30] [31] and with The Bengsons on their rock opera Hundred Days in Seattle, New York and San Francisco.[32] In celebration of the first day of legal same-sex marriage in the State of Washington, Monty lit Seattle's City Hall. [33]
Monty is an associate artist with Seattle's The Satori Group.[34] He designed the lighting for all of Satori's productions from 2009–2011. During that time, The Satori Group was runner up for the Seattle Times' "Friskiest Fringe Establishment" award in 2009,[35] and won the "Avant-garde Afterglow" award for their production of and adaptation of George Saunders' short story "Winky".[36]