Innovating cloud computing technologies since 2002. Leveraging early-career experience of supporting web hosting environments, sought to change how hosting was done. Built an "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) solution for greater security, performance, and scale as early as 2003.
Early adoption and innovation continued in 2006 with introducing automated infrastructure services (IaaS) around baremetal and virtual machine products. These technologies evolved into and earned the moniker, "Cloud Computing".
Introduced one of the first open source cloud computing systems, but lukewarm reception led to joining the OpenStack project as an active technical contributor in January 2011. Work in Ope