Randall Burt is a Senior Software Developer and services architect for the Rackspace cloud who has been instrumental in launching new services at Rackspace. After spending years contracting for the government, Randall joined Rackspace with a passion to contribute to open source technolgies and advance cloud computing. Randall has been the anchor of the software development team for Rackspace deployment orchestration and deployment management services. Randall is a core reviewer of the OpenStack Heat project and advisor to many software development teams at Rackspace.