Primarily interested in contributing to Openstack upsteam with a view to making the project work better, for the benefit of the wider community.
Eoghan is the Senior Director of OpenStack Engineering at Red Hat. He has been part of the Red Hat investment in OpenStack for the past decade, first as an individual contributor and upstream project leader, and then later as a manager. He has a long background with open source and with cloud technology, having contributed to the Apache community for many years and also worked on AWS monitoring while at Amazon. Eoghan is based in Dublin, Ireland though he's also part of a highly globalized team at Red Hat.
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Nova,Glance
I lead an organization at Red Hat of circa 250 engineers & managers who are dedicated to contributing the OpenStack community, building our product that derives from that upstream innovation, and serving our customers who consume it. This is likely one of the largest and most longstanding groups of OpenStack contributors in the industry.
I've sat on the OpenInfra Foundation board for the past 3.5 years, as both an appointed and latterly an elected member. I have have not served on any other non-profit boards.
Ensuring the viability and longevity of the OpenInfra communities and brands, in face of headwinds around open source licencing and truly open community-based innovation.
Continuing to build on the VMware opportunity to drive a resurgence of interest in OpenStack, and translating that momentum into a wider range and more sustainable pattern of community contributions.