Russell BryantRussell Bryant is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he leads a Cloud Infrastructure team in the CTO Office. Russell and his team work on cloud infrastructure projects and contribute to Red Hat's technology strategy. Russell has ben contributing to the OpenStack project since 2011, primarily in the areas of OpenStack Compute and Networking. He currently serves as an elected member of the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors. Russell is also a contributor and committer to the Open vSwitch (OVS) project, where he has helped build OVN, a virtual networking implementation for OVS.

Russell also has a long history in the Asterisk community. He began contributing to Asterisk in 2004 and worked for Digium for several years. Russell's roles in Asterisk included being the first stable branch maintainer and later the leader of the project. Russell remains one of the top committers to Asterisk over the lifetime of the project. Read More Read Less