Summary
Jonathan Bryce is a veteran cloud and open-source leader with 15+ years driving large-scale infrastructure projects and communities from Austin, Texas. He co-founded OpenStack and served in operational and founding roles at Rackspace Cloud, evolving into long-term executive stewardship as Executive Director of the Open Infrastructure Foundation and leader roles at The Linux Foundation and CNCF. Jonathan combines entrepreneurial roots with nonprofit governance, advising startups like Quali and serving on boards such as VentureLab.org to bridge industry, research, and talent pipelines. He is known for building and scaling collaborative open-source ecosystems as much as technology—turning developer communities into sustainable, mission-driven organizations. Jonathan’s career shows a rare blend of hands-on product experience, marketing and operations background, and strategic industry convening that shapes cloud-native direction.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer