I develop platforms, build infrastructure and run site reliability engineering. I’ve created and led teams in these areas for autonomous cars (Cruise) and ridesharing (Lyft) companies.
I co-founded a startup called Solinea that helped clients with cloud native applications. Before that I served as Director of Cloud Development for a cloud service provider (Internap Network Services, INAP), where I led their initial development efforts for their OpenStack public cloud.
In the distant past, I worked at Sun Microsystems as a Principal Engineer, Technical Director and Chief Technologist for various business units.
Along with my normal work duties, I have also authored a few books, written some code and done a bit of public speaking and press interviews.
Meet
Books
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Deploying OpenStack Ken Pepple O'Reilly Media August 3, 2011 (ISBN #978-1449311056) |
 | Migrating to the Solaris Operating System: The Discipline of UNIX-to-UNIX Migrations Ken Pepple, Brian Down and David A. Levy Prentice Hall PTR November 15, 2003 (ISBN #978-0131502635) |
 | Consolidation in the Data Center: Simplifying IT Environments to Reduce Total Cost of Ownership David Hornby and Ken Pepple Prentice Hall PTR September 29, 2002 (ISBN #978-0130454959) |
Conference Presentations and Panels
- OpenStack Day Ireland “Managing OpenStack in the Enterprise”, June 2016 (Dublin, Ireland)
- OpenStack Summit Tokyo “The Media Talks Back to OpenStack”, October 2015 (Tokyo, Japan)
- OpenStack Summit Portland, “OpenStack Grizzly Architecture 101”, April 2013 (Portland)
- OpenStack Summit San Diego “Network Virtualization: The Next Big Thing ?”, October 2012 (San Diego)
- OpenStack Conference San Francisco “Cloud Operators on OpenStack Networking”, April 2012 (San Francisco)
- Trend Spotting in Tech Conference “Evolution of the Data Center in an Open World”, January 2012 (San Francisco)
- OpenStack Conference Boston “Service Provider Discussion Panel”, October 2011 (Boston)
- IDC Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Conference “Preparing For The Enterprise Cloud”, March 2009 (Singapore and Seoul, South Korea)
- The Open Group Conference “Cloud Computing”, May 2009 (Beijing, China)
- CommunityOne, “Practical Cloud Computing Patterns”, June 2009 (San Francisco)
- Gartner Infrastructure, Operations & Data Centre Summit, “Transforming your Data Centre: It’s more than just reducing TCO”, April 2007 (Sydney, Australia)
Interviews & Press
- OpenStack infrastructure embraces containers, but challenges remain (TechTarget on June 2016)
- New Cloud Management Platform Helps Enterprises Handle Workload Onslaught as OpenStack Moves to Widespread Developer Adoption (BusinessWire on April 21, 2016)
- Solinea Closes US$4m Series A Investment with Translink Capital (Venturebeat on October 21, 2015)
- Vendors: OpenStack Buying Decisions Moving From IT to Line of Business (DataCenterKnowledge on August 3rd, 2015)
- SUSE jumps into OpenStack with its own distribution (Network World on August 29th, 2012)
- OpenStack Networking Moving Ahead (Data Center Knowledge on May 10th, 2012)
- First OpenStack cloud now open for business (GigaOM on October 27th, 2011)
- Developers wary of cloud lock-in (ZDNet Asia on April 22, 2009)
- Firms will adopt hybrid software cloud (ZDNet Asia on March 10, 2009)
- How to simplify environments and cut TCO (TechRepublic on February 26, 2003)