Individual Speaker Profile

John leads the OpenStack San Diego official user group getting the community excited about OpenStack! He frequently gives talks on cloud security, compliance and risk management.

• Cyber Security
• Cloud Security
• Audit
• Compliance
• NFV

John is the author of several OpenInfra and CNCF proof of concepts including OpenStack on ARM, OpenStack on Equinix Metal, Rook with Ceph on Equinix Metal, and the Packet Zuul Node Pool driver. By day, he is a network security consultant for manufacturing, telco, and SaaS providers. 

• SCION, a Next-Generation Secure Internet Architecture - Hands On Workshop

• User Group Forum
• Hands on with Rook and Ceph: Storage Orchestration

• Workshop: Deploying OpenStack Ansible
• The Open Micro Edge Data Center

• What we learned building a Zuul CICD Cloud

• Three ARMed OpenStack - Building and Performance Testing OpenStack on ARM
• We tried OpenStack Passport - Here's what we found out...

• Demystifying OpenStack Storage - Hands On
• Selling OpenStack! Secrets from the User Groups
• Service Chaining Virtual Security Functions

• Securing Web Applications with Service Chaining - REPEAT SESSION
• The Evolution of the User Group: Facilitating OpenStack Adoption
• Securing Web Applications with Service Chaining

• Security & Compliance Pitfalls in the Cloud

• Virtualized Service Chained Security Controls - OReilly Security Conference
• Leveraging Cloud SDNs to Solve OWASP Top Ten
• Sydney Summit - Storage Workshop
• Securing Web Applications with Service Chaining - Sydney OpenStack Summit

• English
• French