Eric Day
Senior Software Architect, Rackspace Cloud

Eric Day works on various open source projects such as OpenStack and Gearman. He has been writing high-performance, multi-threaded, and multi-tenant servers for most of his career. Always with an emphasis on efficiency and security, he has written complete HTTP/SSL, DNS, Gearman, and IMAP implementations, along with designing and implementing custom storage and database systems. Most of his work has been done in clustered and distributed environments.

Eric also keeps active in the open source community through speaking at conferences and user groups, as well as helping organize camps and conferences in Portland, OR. When not hacking on code, he can be found playing hockey, running, biking, or enjoying a good vegan meal with his wife.