VMware: restarting the Congress policy project

From August 2014 to March 2015 I was Senior R&D Manager at VMware in Palo Alto.

I restarted a long-dormant Nicira network policy management project. VMware and the OpenStack community both needed a strong policy management tool that was not tied to one vendor.

I managed the internal Nicira developers of the open-source Congress project. Congress is policy management for OpenStack. We reached rapid public developer participation, and the project was adopted by the OpenStack Foundation within 6 months.

During that time my peers elected me to the OpenStack Foundation board again, this time representing the EMC Federation.

I left VMware to join the DreamHost team working on OpenStack Neutron network layers 3 to 7. That became Akanda.