Monty Taylor

Monty was a Senior Consultant at MySQL AB.^[4] While there he was a specialist in High Availability and MySQL Cluster which led to the creation of NDB-connector,^[5] a set of bindings to the underlying NDB API of MySQL Cluster.

After MySQL was acquired by Sun, Monty joined the team working on Drizzle.^[6] which subsequently moved to Rackspace after the Oracle acquisition of Sun.^[7]

While at Rackspace, Monty helped to launch the OpenStack project.^[8] He was responsible for the original creation of OpenStack's "Gating" system^[9] and is the founder and past PTL of the OpenStack Infra project.^[10] He is one of the top overall contributors to OpenStack over the history of the project.^[11]

Monty serves as an Individual Member on the OpenStack Foundation board of directors^[12] as well as the OpenStack Technical Committee^[13]

In 2011, Monty moved from Rackspace to HP. There he formed a team that developed TripleO project for deploying OpenStack^[14] which went on to become the basis for the first release of HP's Helion OpenStack^[15] and Red Hat's RDO^[16]

In 2013, Monty was honored by the Brazilian Government for his contributions to Free Software.^[17][18]

In 2015, Monty moved to IBM^[19][20] to lead the OpenStack Innovation team as a Distinguished Engineer.

From 2016 to 2020, Monty was a Member of Technical Staff at Red Hat^[21][22] working on CI with Zuul and Ansible.

Monty started his Theatre career as a stagehand at Stewart Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina^[23] while enrolled at North Carolina State University.

Monty later transferred to Abilene Christian University where he got a BFA in Theatre with a focus on directing. While there, he served as lighting designer and technical director for ACU's Sing Song event.^{[24] [25]} He continued his education in the MFA program at CalArts, but left and moved to Seattle in 2005.

Monty directed a mildly controversial adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V called King Henry for Ghostlight Theatricals.^[26][27] He was also a frequent collaborator at Taproot Theatre in Seattle,^{[28] [29]} Penfold Theatre in Austin^{[30] [31]} and with The Bengsons on their rock opera Hundred Days in Seattle, New York and San Francisco.^[32] In celebration of the first day of legal same-sex marriage in the State of Washington, Monty lit Seattle's City Hall. ^[33]

Monty is an associate artist with Seattle's The Satori Group.^[34] He designed the lighting for all of Satori's productions from 2009–2011. During that time, The Satori Group was runner up for the Seattle Times' "Friskiest Fringe Establishment" award in 2009,^[35] and won the "Avant-garde Afterglow" award for their production of and adaptation of George Saunders' short story "Winky".^[36]