From the Canyon Edge: Throwback Thursday: 1st OpenStack Summit in Austin (July 2010)

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Throwback Thursday: 1st OpenStack Summit in Austin (July 2010)

On July 7, 2010, I received the above email. In hindsight, this note effectively changed the landscape of cloud computing forever. I was one of 3 Canonical employees in attendance (Nick Barcet, Neil Levine) and among a number former colleagues (Theirry Carrez, Soren Hansen, Rick Clark) at the first OpenStack Design Summit at the Omni hotel in Austin, Texas, in July of 2010.

These are the only pictures I snapped with my phone (metadata says it was an HTC Hero) of the event, which, almost unbelievably fit entirely within a single conference room :-)

The "fishbowl" round table discussion format was modeled after Ubuntu Developer Summits.

It was so much fun to see so many unfamiliar, non-Ubuntu people using the fishbowl discussion format.

Also borrowed from Ubuntu Developer Summits was the collaborative, community-sourced note taking in Etherpad-Lite.

Breakfast, in the beautiful Omni lobby.

Lots of natural light, but thankfully, air conditioned. By the way, does anyone have pictures from the 120^oF Whole Foods roof top event?

My, my, my, how far we've come in 6 short years!

This month's OpenStack Summit returns to Austin, Texas, and fills the entire Austin Convention Center, and overflows into at least two nearby hotels, with 5,000+ OpenStack developers, users, and enthusiasts!

In fact, if you're reading this post on insights.ubuntu.com, you're being served by Wordpress and MySQL hosted on a production Ubuntu OpenStack at Canonical.

Welcome back home, OpenStack!

:-Dustin

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Dustin Kirkland (Twitter, LinkedIn) is an engineer at heart, with a penchant for reducing complexity and solving problems at the cross-sections of technology, business, and people.

With a degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University (2001), his full-time career began as a software engineer at IBM in the Linux Technology Center working on the Linux kernel and security certifications, including a one-year stint as an dedicated engineer-in-residence at Red Hat in Boston (2005). Dustin was awarded the title Master Inventor at IBM, in recognition of his prolific patent work as an inventor and reviewer with IBM's intellectual property attorneys.

Dustin then first joined Canonical (2008) as an engineer (eventually, engineering manager), helping create the Ubuntu Server distribution and establishing Ubuntu as the overwhelming favorite Linux distribution in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's cloud platforms, as well as authoring and maintaining dozens of new open source packages.

Dustin joined Gazzang (2011), a venture-backed start-up built around an open source project that he co-authored (eCryptFS), as Chief Technology Officer, and helped dozens of enterprise customers encrypt their data at rest and securely manage their keys. Gazzang was acquired by Cloudera (2014).

Having effectively monetized eCryptFS as an open source project at Gazzang, Dustin returned to Canonical (2013) as the VP of Product for Ubuntu and spent the next several years launching a portfolio of products and services (Ubuntu Advantage, Extended Security Maintenance, Canonical Livepatch, MAAS, OpenStack, Kubernetes) that continues to deliver considerable annual recurring revenue. With Canonical based in London, an 800+ work-from-home employee roster and customers spread across 40+ countries, Dustin traveled the world over, connecting with clients and colleagues steeped in rich cultural experiences.

Google Cloud (2018) recruited Dustin from Canonical to product manage Google's entrance into on-premises data centers with its GKE On-Prem (now, Anthos) offering, with a specific focus on the underlying operating system, hypervisor, and container security. This work afforded Dustin a view deep into the back end data center of many financial services companies, where he still sees tremendous opportunities for improvements in security, efficiencies, cost-reduction, and disruptive new technology adoption.

Seeking a growth-mode opportunity in the fintech sector, Dustin joined Apex Clearing (now, Apex Fintech Solutions) as the Chief Product Officer (2019), where he led several organizations including product management, field engineering, data science, and business partnerships. He drastically revamped Apex's product portfolio and product management processes, retooling away from a legacy "clearing house and custodian", and into a "software-as-a-service fintech" offering instant brokerage account opening, real-time fractional stock trading, a secure closed-network crypto solution, and led the acquisition and integration of Silver's tax and cost basis solution.

Drawn back into a large cap, Dustin joined Goldman Sachs (2021) as a Managing Director and Head of Platform Product Management, within the Consumer banking division, which included Marcus, and the Apple and GM credit cards. He built a cross-functional product management community and established numerous documented product management best practices, processes, and anti-patterns.

Dustin lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Kim and their wonderful two daughters.

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Throwback Thursday: 1st OpenStack Summit in Austin (July 2010)

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