Mike is currently the community manager and acting director for the Ceph Foundation. Being a contributing member of OpenStack since 2010, he has served as a core developer for the OpenStack block storage project Cinder and as a project technical lead for the Kilo and Liberty releases. During some of this time, he worked for DreamHost to help with their OpenStack public cloud, one of the first large production deployments of Ceph, and helped with integrating a variety of block storage solutions like Ceph in Cinder. He later joined the OpenStack Foundation to help with the success of cross-project initiatives and the overall quality and health of the project and community.