From the Canyon Edge: My Open Source Projects and Contributions

Projects that I've created, authored, and maintained:

Bikeshed - random useful tools that do not have a permanent home

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Bikeshed is a collection of random but useful tools and utilities that either don't quite fit anywhere else, or have not yet been accepted by a more appropriate project. Think of this package as an "orphanage", where tools live until they are adopted by loving, accepting parents.

Bootmail - automatically email one or more admins when a system reboots

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bootmail is a handy utility that will automatically send an email to a configurable list of email addresses each time the system boots. This is perhaps useful for unattended servers that should not reboot often. It appends a configurable list of log files to the email body. If you install the suggested packages, it will also cryptographically sign the email messages.

Byobu - text window manager, shell multiplexer, integrated DevOps environment

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Byobu is Ubuntu's powerful text-based window manager, shell multiplexer, and integrated DevOps environment. Using Byobu, you can quickly create and move between different windows over a single SSH connection or TTY terminal, split each of those windows into multiple panes, monitor dozens of important statistics about your system, detach and reattach to sessions later while your programs continue to run in the background.

Dotdee - convert a flat file to a file concatenated from a .d-style directory

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dotdee is a handy utility for converting a single flat text file to a symlink to a file constructed by concatenating a set of files in .d-style directory.

eCryptfs-utils - ecryptfs cryptographic filesystem (utilities)

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eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. It provides advanced key management and policy features. eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper key, and there is no need to keep track of any additional information aside from what is already in the encrypted file itself. Think of eCryptfs as a sort of "gnupgfs". eCryptfs is a native Linux filesystem. The kernel module component of eCryptfs is part of the Linux kernel since 2.6.19. This package contains the userland utilities.

Hollywood - fill your console with Hollywood melodrama technobabble

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This utility will split your console into a multiple panes of genuine technobabble, perfectly suitable for any Hollywood geek melodrama. It is particularly suitable on any number of computer consoles in the background of any excellent schlock technothriller.

Musica - web application for browsing and listening to your music

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Musica is a web application for browsing and listening to your music. Songs are organized hierarchically in folders of Artists, and sub-folders of Albums. The PHP script presents an interface for navigating among artists and albums. It dynamically generates playlists, allows for downloading single songs, entire albums, and links to Wikipedia articles on artists and albums.

Orange Box - Orange Box master node easy installation

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This package can be installed on an Ubuntu Orange Box's master node to automatically configure MAAS and Juju.

Orchestra - superceded by MAAS

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This package installs the dependencies necessary to comprehensively manage and orchestrate Ubuntu data center using an Service Orchestration framework.

Petname - generate pronounceable, perhaps even memorable, pet names

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This utility will generate "pet names", consisting of a random combination of an adverb, adjective, and proper name. These are useful for unique hostnames, for instance. The default packaging contains about 2000 names, 1300 adjectives, and 4000 adverbs, yielding nearly 10 billion unique combinations, covering over 32 bits of unique namespace. As such, PetName tries to follow the tenets of Zooko's triangle: names are human meaningful, decentralized, and secure.

golang-petname - golang library for generating pronounceable, memorable, pet names

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This package provides a library for generating "pet names", consisting of a random combination of an adverb, adjective, and proper name. These are useful for unique hostnames, for instance. The default packaging contains about 2000 names, 1300 adjectives, and 4000 adverbs, yielding nearly 10 billion unique combinations, covering over 32 bits of unique namespace. As such, PetName tries to follow the tenets of Zooko's triangle: names are human meaningful, decentralized, and secure.

python-petname - python library for generating pronounceable, memorable, pet names

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This package provides a library for generating "pet names", consisting of a random combination of an adverb, adjective, and proper name. These are useful for unique hostnames, for instance. The default packaging contains about 2000 names, 1300 adjectives, and 4000 adverbs, yielding nearly 10 billion unique combinations, covering over 32 bits of unique namespace. As such, PetName tries to follow the tenets of Zooko's triangle: names are human meaningful, decentralized, and secure.

Pictor - web application for browsing your pictures

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Pictor is a simple web application for browsing your pictures in a in a filesystem (without a complicated database schema). Pictures are organized in filesystem directories of any depth. Albums are directories that contain pictures. Thumbnails are generated and cached as necessary, and images are dynamically resized on the fly. Pictor is useful as for low-traffic browsing of your pictures on a local webserver, but is not necessarily recommended for high traffic picture sharing, as Pictor's dynamic image scaling can be cpu-intensive.

Pollen - Entropy-as-a-Service web server

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Pollen is an Entropy-as-a-Service web server, providing random seeds. This can be performed over both cleartext http and encrypted https TLS connections.

Pollinate - seed the pseudo random number generator in virtual machines

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This client will connect to one or more Pollen (entropy-as-a-service) servers over an (optionally) encrypted connection and retrieve a random seed over HTTP or HTTPS. This is particularly useful at the first boot of cloud images and in virtual machines, to seed a system's random number generator at genesis, and is intended to supplement the /etc/init.d/urandom init script.

PowerNap - reduce the power consumption of a system when inactive

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PowerNap watches a series of configurable monitors. When no activity has occurred on any of these monitors for some specified time, PowerNap deems the system inactive, and takes action, as configured by the system administrator.

Run-one - run just one instance of a command and its args at a time

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This utility will run just one instance at a time of some command and unique set of arguments (useful for cronjobs, eg).

SSH-Import-ID - securely retrieve an SSH public key and install it locally

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This utility will securely contact a public keyserver (Launchpad.net by default, but Github.com is also supported), retrieve one or more user's public keys, and append these to the current user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.

SWLines

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Testdrive - run the daily Ubuntu ISO in a virtual machine

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Testdrive helps you download and run the daily Ubuntu development ISO in a virtual machine on your local hardware. It is strongly recommended that you have a CPU with VT and sufficient memory on your system to host virtual machines. In this case, testdrive will use KVM to host your virtual machines.

Transcode in Parallel

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Ubuntu Manpage Repository

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Update-MOTD - compliments pam_motd in libpam-modules

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This package installs a script that immediately dynamically generates a message-of-the-day by running scripts installed in /etc/update-motd.d, in lexical order. Other packages, or system administrators should symlink scripts into /etc/update-motd.d, pre-pending a 2-digit number to handle ordering. The functionality formerly provided by this package is now integrated into pam_motd, in libpam-modules.

What-Utils - simple package query utilities

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what-provides - what package provides some file or executable, what-repo - what repository provides some package, what-source - what source package provides some binary package

Ubuntu features that I'm responsible for:

The service command
Aubergine background in Ubuntu's debian-installer and ncurses screens
Encrypted Home Directories
Overlayroot
manpages.ubuntu.com
entropy.ubuntu.com

Projects that I've contributed to:

Linux Kernel

patches

audit support of ipc object and permission changes: ipc, msg, sem, shm, util,
audit filter comparators

Yaboot

patches to support software RAID

tmux

patches

dynamic pam_motd.c

Debian package mantainer

byobu, ssh-import-id, famfamfam-silk

Aurora

Ubuntu packaging

screen

patches

Newt

patches

mdadm

patches

About the Author

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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