James Turnbull
James Turnbull | |
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 James Turnbull at Linux.conf.au 2008 (photo by Michael Davies) | |
| Born | Melbourne, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation(s) | Author, Engineer, Ops & Security. |
| Known for | Author of technical books, involvement in Free Software community, engineering, systems management and security |
| Title | CTO |
James Turnbull is an Australian free software and open source author, security specialist, and software developer. He lives in Brooklyn, New York where he is co-chair of the Velocity conference and an advisor at Access Now. Prior to that he was CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Engineering at Venmo.[1] He was also VP of Technology Operations for the open source company Puppet Labs.[2]
Career
Turnbull has been involved in technology and the open source community since the early 1990s. He has written eight books on Engineering, Operations, security and open source software:
- The Art of Monitoring[3]
- The Docker Book[4]
- The Logstash Book[5]
- Pro Puppet (Apress 2011)[6]
- Pro Linux System Administration (Apress 2009)[7]
- Pulling Strings with Puppet (Apress 2008)[8]
- Pro Nagios 2.0 (Apress 2006)[9]
- Hardening Linux (Apress 2004)[10]
He has also published numerous articles on Linux and open source technology.[11]
Free Software involvement
Turnbull is a contributor to Docker, the open source logging tool Logstash,[12] Riemann, the qpsmtpd SMTP daemon, the Puppet configuration management tool, and the Facter system inventory tool.
Turnbull was the Treasurer, member of the papers committee, and coordinated the mini-conference program at linux.conf.au 2008.[13]
He is a member of Linux Australia, including being President in 2010 and sitting on the Executive Council in 2008.[14] He has previously also been on the committee of Linux Users of Victoria.
References
- ^ http://kartar.net/2013/07/making-changes/
- ^ James Turnbull finally joins Puppet Labs
- ^ The Art of Monitoring
- ^ The Docker Book
- ^ The Logstash Book
- ^ Pro Puppet
- ^ Pro Linux System Administration
- ^ Pulling Strings With Puppet
- ^ Pro Nagios 2.0
- ^ Hardening Linux
- ^ TechTarget expert
- ^ Logstash
- ^ Getting the Smalltalk on the road
- ^ New president at Linux Australia
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