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Nationality
  
Australian

Role
  
Author

Name
  
James Turnbull

Title
  
CTO

Employer
  
Kickstarter, Docker


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Occupation
  
Author, Engineer, Ops & Security.

Known for
  
Author of technical books, involvement in Free Software community, engineering, systems management and security

Residence
  
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States

Books
  
Pro Puppet, Hardening Linux, Pulling Strings with Puppet, Pro Nagios 20, Pro Linux System Administration

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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 CTO at Empatico, co-chair of the Velocity conference and an advisor at Access Now. Prior to that he was CTO at Kickstarter and VP of Engineering at Venmo. He was also VP of Technology Operations for the open source company Puppet Labs.

Contents

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Career

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

  • The Packer Book
  • The Terraform Book
  • The Art of Monitoring
  • The Docker Book
  • The Logstash Book
  • Pro Puppet (Apress 2011)
  • Pro Linux System Administration (Apress 2009)
  • Pulling Strings with Puppet (Apress 2008)
  • Pro Nagios 2.0 (Apress 2006)
  • Hardening Linux (Apress 2004)
  • He has also published numerous articles on Linux and open source technology.

    Free Software involvement

    Turnbull is a contributor to Docker, the open source logging tool Logstash, 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.

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

    References

    James Turnbull Wikipedia