Yahoo and the founding of the OpenStack Foundation

From February 2010 to August 2014 I worked at Yahoo in Sunnyvale as Network Engineering Principal and Technical Program Manager. I was a principal member of the infrastructure CTO office, which managed external networks, content delivery caching, data center builds and infrastructure contracts.

Two things from those years matter most to me.

First, I represented Yahoo in co-founding the OpenStack Foundation. My peers then elected me to represent Yahoo on its Board of Directors. I also served in Yahoo's Open Source Office for the Platform division.

Second, I developed the Platform R&D investments in technologies such as Nicira and VMware software-defined networking and OpenStack infrastructure. The aim was to save more than $100M in capital expense.

I also created, pitched and executed plans to build Yahoo out as a competitor to Amazon AWS. The company later postponed those plans for good, because being a public services provider was not in line with its core mission.