James Turnbull

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 VP of Engineering at Glitch, co-chair of the Velocity conference and an advisor at Access Now.[1] Prior to that he led startup advocacy at Microsoft, was founder and CTO at Empatico,[2] CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Engineering at Venmo and VP of Service at Docker.[3] He was also VP of Technology Operations for the open source company Puppet Labs.[4]

This article is about the Australian software developer. For the Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, see James Youll Turnbull. For the Nova Scotia lawyer and politician, see James Turnbull (politician). For first to ascend the Colorado River by steamboat, see James Turnbull (steamboat captain).

James Turnbull
Turnbull at Linux.conf.au 2008 (photo by Michael Davies)
Born
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAustralian
OccupationAuthor & Engineer
EmployerGlitch
Known forAuthor of technical books, involvement in Free Software community, engineering, systems management and security

Career

Turnbull has been involved in technology and the open source community since the early 1990s. He has written eleven books on engineering, operations, security and open source software:

He has also published numerous articles on Linux and open source technology.[16]

Free Software involvement

Turnbull is a contributor to Docker, the open source logging tool Logstash,[17] Riemann, Prometheus, 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.[18]

He is a member of Linux Australia, including being President in 2010 and sitting on the Executive Council in 2008.[19] He has previously also been on the committee of Linux Users of Victoria.

References
  1. https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/content/about#chairs
  2. https://empatico.org
  3. http://kartar.net/2013/07/making-changes/
  4. James Turnbull finally joins Puppet Labs
  5. Monitoring with Prometheus
  6. The Packer Book
  7. The Terraform Book
  8. The Art of Monitoring
  9. The Docker Book
  10. The Logstash Book
  11. Pro Puppet
  12. Pro Linux System Administration
  13. Pulling Strings With Puppet
  14. Pro Nagios 2.0
  15. Hardening Linux
  16. TechTarget expert
  17. Logstash
  18. Getting the Smalltalk on the road
  19. New president at Linux Australia
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