Jesse is a DevOps Engineer working in the Rackspace Private Cloud product development team. His days are usually spent developing Ansible-based automation for the deployment of OpenStack in production environments. This has resulted in contributions to both the os-ansible-deployment/openstack-ansible (where Jesse is a core contributor) and openstack-infra projects. In a previous life Jesse was an architect and operator for an OpenStack Public Cloud in South Africa which was automated through Chef.