Summary
John Garbutt is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer with 11+ years building and guiding large-scale cloud and HPC infrastructure, currently at Nscale. A long-time OpenStack veteran since 2010, he served as Nova PTL for Liberty and Mitaka, was twice elected to the OpenStack Technical Committee, and remains a Nova core reviewer driving compute and driver design. He blends deep systems-level expertise (bare metal, RDMA, NUMA, SR-IOV, KVM) with platform work that converges OpenStack, Kubernetes and HPC for academic and industrial customers. Known for pragmatic leadership, he has led platform teams, stewarded complex release processes, and presented internationally on large open-source cloud projects. Based in Long Beach with a Cambridge MA in Computer Science, he pairs heavy technical depth with a knack for making demanding infrastructure more efficient and accessible.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MA Computer Science, MA Computer Science at University of Cambridge