Speaker Details

Jacob has been working with OpenStack for almost a decade, mostly focusing on High Performance Computing use cases. He is a pioneer of using InfiniBand interconnects in OpenStack clouds and has worked on some of the fastest cloud interconnect and storage systems in the World. Working in DevOps model for many years led him towards software development career and he is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat where he is contributing to Ironic project and the bare-metal product portfolio. Jacob is passionate about bare-metal clouds and containerisation and is aiming to utilise his High Performance Computing background to help improve performance, scalability and operational resiliency of bare-metal.