Robert Collins is a Distinguished Technologist in HP Cloud. For the last 6 years he has been walking the fine line between development and operations. He is also a developer on the Debian project, and has contributed to many other projects, including (but certainly not limited to): bazaar, Launchpad, Ubuntu, subunit, testresources, testtools, testscenarios, testrepository, fixtures, zope fixtures, config manager, cygwin and squid. Robert has been involved with open source development and Python for a number of years, with a "tremendous passion for high quality, well tested software". He has been described as a ?Champion of test driven development?, and a ?meticulous software developer?. He lives in Rangiora, New Zealand with his wife & young daughter.