Monty Taylor | |
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| Born | August 12, 1975 |
| 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]