Kevin Jackson

Preston, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Principal Engineer at Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company

Technology / Software / Internet

A confident, highly skilled IT professional with experience of managing technical teams, specialising in OpenStack and other areas of cloud computing, security, Unix and Linux, virtualisation and web infrastructure hosting. I have Unix and Linux experience dating back to 1997 and working in the web hosting/server industry since 2000. I have been working with OpenStack since early 2011 with experiences of other cloud technologies and tools such as AWS, Rightscale and CloudStack. I'm also the author of the 1st Edition, OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook and Co-author of the 2nd Edition: http://www.openstackcookbook.com/