Partner at Vulk Cooperative - http://vulk.coop | Lead on CNCF CNF Testbed, Telecom User Group and CNF Conformance initiatives. OpenSource advocate, using Linux since 1994 with the 1.0 release and gnu tools on other unix systems before that. OpsDev geek. Elixir and Ruby programmer. Proponent of improving user experience (UX) in all endeavors including group collaboration, end-user applications, developer tools, APIs. Taylor has helped companies (startups to enterprise) with integrations and modernizing their platforms for over 18 years. This covers many domains such as networking, security and finance with companies including Nortel Networks, Bank of America, and IBM. He’s also helped design and run the technology needs of organizations such Lonestar Ruby Conference. Recent speaking experiences include ONS NA, ONS EU, KubeCon EU, China and KubeCon NA 2019.