As the distinguished architect for Rackspace Private Cloud powered by OpenStack, Justin Shepherd is an ambassador of openness. He is often traveling the globe talking about the powers of OpenStack and private cloud, and has trained numerous companies on deploying and operating OpenStack clusters. While starting his career as a systems engineer on a small IT team working in a traditional IT environment, Justin joined Rackspace 10 years ago and has been part of OpenStack since the beginning. He is a core contributor to OpenStack and has helped found both the Chef and Ansible OpenStack communities.