Billy Olsen
OpenStack Engineering Director at Canonical
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Olsen is an OpenStack engineering leader with 11+ years in cloud infrastructure and over two decades of software experience spanning IBM and Canonical, where he progressed from software engineer to OpenStack Engineering Director. He specializes in building and sustaining large-scale open source cloud platforms, blending hands-on systems work with people leadership to deliver production-ready infrastructure. A pragmatic engineer-manager, he has driven storage and data center management features at IBM and now steers OpenStack strategy and execution at Canonical. Billy is also an active OSS contributor—his GitHub work includes back-end enhancements to the well-known OpenRocket simulation project—illustrating a curiosity for physics-informed tooling beyond core cloud software. Based in Tucson, he combines deep technical judgment with a track record of shipping resilient, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science and Engineering at Northern Arizona University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
front-end-development10
rocket10
java10
rockets10
modeling9
aerospace9
simulations9
simulation9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openrocket/openrocket
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Model-rocketry aerodynamics and trajectory simulation software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 103 commits, 113 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Billy's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the OpenRocket project, specifically related to the implementation of rail buttons. They addressed bug fixes related to the default sizing of rail buttons and the layout within the configuration dialog. The user also added options for defining rail button presets and material types, adding Delrin and Nylon materials to the database. Furthermore, the user made modifications to ensure the correct calculation and handling of flight data.
pythonopenrocketsimulationdiscrete-event-simulationsimulator
wolsen/juju
Jun 2017 - Jun 2023
juju is devops distilled
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years
zulipdevopsmanjaroself-hostinglinux
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