I have been building resilient operable systems for 25 years, primarily in the financial services sector. A huge proponent of Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Delivery and a strong open source advocate, I have been building enterprise-grade OpenStack systems for production use since the early Cactus Days, and have introduced OpenStack to a number of organizations. I still maintain a hands-on touch with OpenStack code and installations while providing high-level strategy and architecture for people looking to cloud, guiding them into OpenStack.