Michael is a Principal Architect at Aptira where he spends most of his time helping telcos understand cloud, network function virtualization, and service orchestration. He’s an active OpenStack Compute developer, and has previously served as the Compute Project Technical Lead, a Compute and Olso Core Reviewer, as well as serving on the OpenStack-wide Technical Committee. Michael has previously held a series of development and devops jobs, mostly for large American corporations in the “web” space.