Elizabeth K. Joseph E-mail: lyz@princessleia.com Web: www.princessleia.com SUMMARY Developer advocate and senior systems administrator and infrastructure architect with over a decade of experience with highly- available, scalable systems built upon open source technologies. Author of The Official Ubuntu Book (8th and 9th Editions) and Common OpenStack Deployments. Frequent speaker on infrastructure and DevOps topics at conferences around the world. SKILLS Linux: Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora Containers: Apache Mesos, Docker, DC/OS Configuration Management: Puppet, Ansible Monitoring: Nagios, Icinga2, Prometheus Virtualization: OpenStack, Xen, KVM, VirtualBox Database administration: PostgreSQL, MySQL Continuous Integration: Gerrit, Zuul, Jenkins, GitLab Public-facing services: Apache, Exim, Postfix Networking: iptables, tcpdump, route, iproute2, Linux multi-homing, bridging, OpenVPN Scripting, Programming & Markup: Python, Perl, bash, HTML, CSS, LaTeX, YAML, XML, JSON EXPERIENCE Developer Advocate 2017 - 2018 Mesosphere, Inc. Telecommute from San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia * Speaking at conferences worldwide, as an advocate for Open Source Infrastructure, DC/OS and Mesos * Write articles and blog posts related to emerging container-based technologies and infrastructure * Develop demonstrations for community members to demonstrate usage of DC/OS * Engage with open source DC/OS community via mailing lists, Slack, regular video conferences and face-to-face meetings * Consult internally about open source strategy * Keep community-facing resources engaging and current, including GitHub, project website and social media Senior Automation and Tools Engineer 2013 - 2016 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Telecommute from San Francisco, California * Speaking at conferences worldwide, as a representative of HPE on a multitude of topics * Writing articles for the HPE blog and open source publications * Managing Puppet-deployed Ubuntu and CentOS systems * Handling local and cloud-based virtualization test instances * Code and configuration management in git and Gerrit * System configuration and Python code review * QA and debugging of OpenStack development builds Linux Systems Administrator 2006 - 2012 LinuxForce, Inc. Upper Darby, Pennsylvania (Telecommute from San Francisco, California since 2010) * Performing routine server installation and maintenance for a variety of company- and customer-owned servers throughout the Philadelphia region * Infrastructure design, deployment and maintenance of virtualized, high-availability (HA) clusters * Consulting for and implementing data and services migrations * Reviewing and diagnostics of infrastructure for new clients * Monitoring system messages and resolving problematic items * Debian software packaging, internally and in the official Debian distribution repository * Technical documentation writing, including public-facing documents on company website and blog * Member of technical on-call rotation * Supervising and project coordinating of hired contractors * Direct customer support and relationship management via phone and e-mail * Handling contractor scheduling, payroll and invoices Web Developer 2003 - 2004 Digital Wave Technologies Inc Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania VOLUNTEER Board of Directors, Treasurer 2011 - Present Partimus (www.partimus.org) San Francisco, California Partimus is a non-profit organization that provides repurposed computers running free software to students and schools which need them. * Technical and social advisor * Management of blog, e-mail and web services * Banking and financial bookkeeping * On-site Linux Desktop and Server deployment and maintenance Ubuntu Community Council Member 2009 - 2015 Ubuntu (community.ubuntu.com) International The Ubuntu Community Council is the primary community governance body for the Ubuntu project. Members of this Council are elected by the community after demonstrating considerable committment to the project. * Participate in Ubuntu Developer Summits twice a year * Help draft and make community-related decisions and direction * Oversee, staff and delegate responsibilities to other boards, councils and teams Group Coordinator 2007 - 2009 Philadelphia area Linux Users Group (PLUG) (www.phillylinux.org) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PLUG is the largest Linux group in Philadelphia with over 800 members on the core mailing list and three chapters around the Philadelphia region meeting monthly. * Speaker recruitment for all chapters * Venue selection and relationship management * Management of website content and mailing list * Publication of meeting announcements Group Coordinator 2003 - 2008 Philadelphia area LinuxChix Chapter (phillychix.org) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PhillyChix is a chapter of the international LinuxChix organization providing a friendly environment for women to to meet up to talk about Linux, network and share ideas. * Venue selection and meeting planning and announcements * Management of mailing list * Administration of website server and website content * Relationship management with book publishers who provided review copies of technical books for the group AWARDS O'Reilly Open Source Award 2012 -- Portland, Oregon Presented at OSCON for individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source. OpenSource.com People's Choice Award 2016 -- opensource.com Opensource.com awards people from the community who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source. Finalist, Red Hat Women in Open Source Award 2015 -- https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source Recognizing the contributions women are making and inspire a new generation to join the open source movement. NOTABLE Keynote: CI/CD of Microservices with Containers SPEAKING OpenDevConf CI/CD -- 2018 -- Vancouver, Canada ENGAGEMENTS Keynote Panel Moderator: SMACK in the Enterprise MesosCon Europe -- 2017 -- Prague, Czechia Keynote Panel Moderator: Future of Cluster Management MesosCon North America -- 2017 -- Los Angeles, California Keynote: The Open Sourcing of Infrastructure SLC DevOps Days -- 2017 -- Salt Lake City, Utah Keynote: Demoing the World's Largest Multi-Cloud CI Application OpenStack Summit -- 2016 -- Barcelona, Spain Keynote: Listening to the Needs of your Global Open Source Community FOSSCON -- 2016 -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Keynote: Building a Career in Free and Open Source Software UbuCon Latin America -- 2015 -- Lima, Peru Keynote: OpenStack's Continuous Integration Infrastructure DORS/Croatian Linux Users Convention -- 2014 -- Zagreb, Croatia Keynote: Universal Design for Tech: Improving Gender Diversity in our Industry LOPSA-East -- 2014 -- New Brunswick, New Jersey Keynote: Making a Difference for Millions: Getting Involved with FOSS FOSSCON -- 2011 -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Women of Open Source (panelist) SDForum Tech Women Program -- 2011 -- Mountain View, California Virtualization Roundtable (Xen panelist and moderator) Philadelphia area Linux Users Group -- 2009 -- Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania