"Cloud Computing"

Puppet, Chef Ease Transition to Cloud Computing

BusinessWeek covered the moment infrastructure automation crossed from Google and Amazon's secret playbooks into the broader enterprise market. My founding thesis for Opscode in their words: open up the tools the giants had been guarding.

“The custom tools built by Google, Amazon, and some other guys were such closely guarded secrets. Our founding thesis was to open up these tools to everyone else.”

MIT Technology Review TR35: Innovators Under 35

The MIT Technology Review TR35 listing for 2011, citing my work on web operations, cloud, and resilience engineering at Amazon and Opscode.